Dwaina brooks biography of rory

Rory Brooks : Co-Founder & Trustee 

Rory Brooks is co-founder of the international private equity group MML Capital Partners. Rory graduated from UMIST (now University of Manchester) in 1975. He funded the UK’s first chair in Enterprise at the University of Manchester in 2001.

In 2005 the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Foundation became the principal benefactor of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, which was merged with the Institute for Development Policy and Management in 2015 to create the Global Development Institute (GDI).

The Foundation continues to support the GDI.

Rory is the inaugural Chair of the University of Manchester’s International Advisory Board having previously been Chair of the Global Leadership Board for eleven years. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University in October 2010.

Rory is a previous Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Social Justice and is an inaugural Trustee of the newly formed CSJ Foundation.&nb Rory Brooks CBE - GOV.UK DAPA