Richard Lewis

Richard is a senior lawyer in the Government Legal Department, where he has advised on consumer law, state aid and trade union and employment law. He has also been a deputy director in the professional and technical education directorate of the Department for Education, where he worked on the Technical and Further Education Act 2017 and on the restructuring of the further education and sixth form college sectors. Before becoming a civil servant, he was a partner in one of London's leading commercial law firms.