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Fire Minister Shahid Malik announced a few days ago that Kim Robinson has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Fire Service College at Moreton in Marsh
Mr Malik also announced the appointment of two non-executive members of the College management board – Bill Griffiths as the new Chair and Martin Bryant as a board member.

Kim Robinson joins the College from a business development role at BAE Systems. He has extensive leadership and change management experience across a range of organisations in both the private and public sectors.

Bill Griffiths is currently Executive Chair of the Forensic Science Service and a non-executive director at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and within the Department for Work and Pensions. He is an experienced finance director and business manager with a broad international background at Unilever and ICI.

Martin Bryant, currently an interim non-executive board member at the Fire Service College, has a commercial background with Boots and BP together with extensive experience of the public sector as Director of Strategy at the Home Office and Chief Executive of the Shareholder Executive in 2006/7; and a non-executive directorships at the Government Office for the East Midlands and the East Midlands Development Agency.

Welcoming the Fire Minister, Shahid Malik said: “The Fire Service College is a world class training facility at the heart of the Fire & Rescue Service. The provision of high quality training is essential to building a service which has the skills to meet the challenges of the twenty first century. I look forward to working with Kim, his team and the Management Board to secure a bright future for the College.