Richard Howitt (politician)

Richard Howitt
Richard Howitt speaking at the 2016 Labour Party Conference
Cambridgeshire County Councillor
for Petersfield
Assumed office
6 May 2021
Preceded byLinda Jones
Majority878 (22.5%)
Member of the European Parliament
for the East of England
Essex South (1994-1999)
In office
9 June 1994 – 2 November 2016
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byAlex Mayer
Personal details
Born (1961-04-05) 5 April 1961 (age 63)
Reading, Berkshire
Political partyPES / Labour
ChildrenOllie Howitt-Sutton, Georgia Howitt-Sutton
Alma materLady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Richard Stuart Howitt (born 5 April 1961) is a British Labour Party politician, and a former[1] Chief Executive Officer of the International Integrated Reporting Council. For five years prior to becoming CEO of the IIRC, he acted as a voluntary IIRC Ambassador, promoting Integrated Reporting within the policy and business communities. He took over from the previous CEO Paul Druckman.[2] He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for 22 years between 1994 and 2016.

  1. ^ "International Integrated Reporting Council CEO Richard Howitt steps down". Accounting Today. 20 June 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  2. ^ "IIRC appoints Richard Howitt as new chief executive - Public Finance". www.publicfinanceinternational.org.