Dr. Neil Bentley – Deputy Director-General, CBI
Recently appointed as the Confederation of British Industry’s Deputy Director-General, Neil previously held the position of CBI Director of Business Environment, responsible for leading the CBI’s climate change campaign to build a low-carbon economy, our work on energy, transport and planning, environment regulation, localism and the construction sector. Neil also sits on the board of the Carbon Trust.
Prior to this, from 2005, he was CBI director of Public Services, responsible for leading the CBI’s campaign on public service reform. And from 2002, he was Head of Skills and Employment with responsibility for areas such education, skills, diversity, trade union relations, employee involvement and working time.
Before joining the CBI in 2002 he was European employee relations consultant at EDS Ltd, a global IT services company. Prior to EDS, Neil was a researcher on European employment law and industrial relations issues at the Industrial Relations Services. Neil’s doctorate focused on trade union attitudes to racism and immigration.
