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River Lune at Salterworth BridgeRiver Lune at Salterworth Bridge near Tebay; The Howgill Fells are to the right

This page is not intended to be a potted autobiography. It is here because there are so many David Murrays in this world that you might want to check whether you’ve found the right one.  In employment and career terms my life splits roughly into decades:

  • 1960s – Education; then Chemist, R&D, Crown Paints
  • 1970s – Quality Management and Manufacturing Management, Crown Paints
  • 1980s – Management Consultancy, Director & Partner, Hay Management Consultants
  • 1990s – Independent Consultancy, Professional Ethics and Service Quality
  • 2000s – Independent Consultancy plus Anti-Corruption work (mostly pro bono)
  • 2010s – Retired

Some organisations with which I have in the past been associated include:

Institute of Quality Assurance (now the Chartered Quality Institute)

  • Chairman, Professional Policy Board; Council member; now Honorary Fellow

Association for Management Education & Development

  • Council member; Journal Co-editor

Transparency International

  • Deputy Chairman, TI(UK)
  • Spokesman on Extractive Industries for TI globally
  • TI Representative on the civil society movement to establish EITI

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

  • DfID, Senior Advisor to the Chairman during EITI formation

Faith in Business

  • Chairman; Journal founder and editor

UK Evangelical Alliance

  • Member, Theology & Public Policy Advisory Commission

Churches in which I’ve served as an elder over the past forty years

  • Ebenezer Hall, Darwen, Lancashire
  • Newark Evangelical Church, Nottinghamshire
  • Kirkby Stephen Evangelical Church, Cumbria. Web site

Publications

  • A lot of writing but most of it confidentially for clients and not openly published
  • “Ethics in Organizations” (Kogan Page, 1997, 239pp)
  • A relatively small number of journal articles (I’ll add some references later)

Finally,
I’m sometimes asked whether I consider myself a Cumbrian or a Lancastrian. I think my status can be summarised as “a Lancastrian Cumbrian with a Westmorland ancestry and a Scottish surname”. Does that help? Probably not.

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Looking at the tag line under the header I am reminded of the Bible verse, in the old King James version, Here we have no continuing city. There has been a lot of movement over the years but I am now settled in Kirkby Stephen, having lost Hilda (after years of Lewy Body Dementia) back in January. This is the old county of my maternal ancestors, Westmorland, and I have no great aspiration toward further moves, although one can never tell what the future holds.
– David Murray, 16th August 2017 –

David Murray
In addition to my various business personas I have a personal Twitter identity:
@DavidMurray43
You can also find me on Facebook
and
Google+

At present these are little used apart from Facebook, but I'll be back.

Latest Personal Update

Having for several decades been actively involved in a variety of professional and charitable organisations, both national and international, secular and spiritual, 2013 was a year of change. Passing the age of 70, after several protracted periods of poor health over the previous twenty years, and following further serious warnings about health and overwork, it was time to withdraw to more local roles.

This had already happened to some extent during a period of severely poor health in 2007, but a further withdrawal was needed.

For four years my chief involvements (apart from serving as carer for my wife, Hilda, and running a few web sites which hopefully might grow eventually into a viable small online business) were as an elder in a local church along with a preaching and Bible teaching ministry around Cumbria and neighbouring counties (chiefly in Baptist, Christian Brethren and independent churches).

Even that had to be reduced as Hilda's condition (Lewy Body Dementia) deteriorated, especially during the final year of her life, and I'm grateful to those who willingly allowed me to withdraw from or reduce commitments already entered into.

Now, however, after spending six months gradually recovering from "carer-exhaustion", I'm back in action within Cumbria - although (August 2017) not yet further afield. The recovery process continues.

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