Fergus Drake

CEO, Crown Agents

Fergus has over two decades of experience delivering humanitarian and development programmes around the world, most recently as Executive Director of Global Programmes at Save the Children. In this role he led innovative, evidence-based programmes responding to the needs of over 20 million children across 60 countries spanning the humanitarian to development spectrum. 

He has also worked at the centre of government, including roles with HM Treasury in the UK and embedded in the Government of Rwanda with Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative where he established a Co-ordination & Delivery Unit across Government. He has also led significant public sector change programmes for Deloitte.