Paul is the Group Chief Executive of Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT). Paul started with us on the 1 September 2020, and was previously a Director General in the UK Government working on the national response to the COVID-19 crisis. He has held Director General roles at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Education. He was Deputy Chief Executive for Policy and Organisational Strategy at the Ministry for Children in New Zealand. Paul has also held senior roles at HM Treasury, the Cabinet Office, and a local authority. He has worked throughout his career on economic and social policy issues and public service reform.
To mark the centenary of our founder’s death, CEO Paul Kissack describes how Joseph Rowntree’s legacy is being reshaped to meet the challenges of deep economic and social change.
In this blog Paul Kissack looks at the three different ways in which JRF views our mission, how doing that holds us to account, and how it shapes our work.
JRF has long recognised the important role of trade unions in shaping positive social change. In this blog, Paul Kissack welcomes Unite the Union as the first to represent JRF staff.
JRF is redoubling our commitment to social change, driven by the unshakeable belief that poverty in the UK can be solved. Urgent action is vital, but deeper and more radical change is also needed to economic and social models. In this blog Group Chief Executive, Paul Kissack, tells us why.
At JRF and JRHT, we recognise that we cannot truly be anti-poverty organisations unless we are also anti-racist organisations. CEO Paul Kissack shares his personal reflections on how we understand racism in our society, and outlines our commitment to racial justice in our organisations and in our work.
The art of the possible has shifted dramatically this year - we have a responsibility to build on this, to shape a consensus that solving poverty is both right and possible.