Mike Knight

Mike has been our Chief People Officer since 2018, responsible for the entire people function across Action for Children. Mike joined Action for Children in October 2015, as HR Director, responsible for the Business Partners, People Policies, Reward, Wellbeing and Payroll.

In 2018, the People function was brought together, and Mike assumed additional responsibility for the recruitment, learning and organisational development parts of the people function.

Mike has worked in human resources roles across the public sector over the past 25 years, in several London local authorities, including Camden Council when it was Council of the Year (2002), central government, a policing agency and the NHS.

Mike is married to Jing and they have a young son, Sebastian.