Chief Executive

Mr Derrick Anderson, CBE, is the Chief Executive of Lambeth Council and started in post on 1 March 2006.

Mr Anderson, who was born in London, has over twenty years' management experience in local government and more than 25 years in the public sector.

Mr Anderson is a non-executive director on the Home Office General Executive Board, Vice President of Youth Clubs, Board Member of Sport England London and a Committee Member of VSO UK Committee.

He was awarded a CBE for services to local government in January 2003 and holds an honorary doctorate from Staffordshire University for work on social inclusion and cultural policy and an honorary doctorate from Birmingham University.

With a keen interest in sports and the arts, Mr Anderson’s outside interests include working with aid and development agencies in Southern Africa and the Caribbean.