Profile: Rob Baldock
Dr Robert Baldock – Company Secretary & Director, Consultant
Robert Baldock is an experienced business consultant, including more than five years of legal recruitment consultancy, specialising in East Anglia and Lincolnshire. He holds a PhD in finance and small business policy from Birkbeck College, University of London. Rob is Associate Principal Researcher at the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex University Business School and a policy advisor to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG - formerly part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)); the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform's (formerly DTI) Small Business Service (SBS); the Scottish Executive and the Health and Safety Executive.
Rob Baldock’s recent work has included: examining small business access to finance in Scotland for the Scottish Executive; examining the pilots for the Enterprise Promotion Fund for the DTI; assisting in a systematic review of business and economic development policy in deprived areas for the ODPM; assessing the impacts of the Deprived Urban Post Office grant scheme for the DTI; assessing health and safety in small firms for the Health and Safety Executive; researching the impacts of business linkages with key public sector services, in remote rural areas of Norfolk and Suffolk, for the Countryside Agency.
Previously, Rob has advised the British Bankers’ Association on issues of finance to Black and Minority Ethnic Business; advised the SBS on the High Growth Business Start-Up Programme; set-up a vocational training plan for the Falkland Island’s government; undertaken various small business studies for PROSPER, the Business Link for Devon and Cornwall.
Rob has also published a book on London’s governance and the operation of the London Development Agency and published articles in leading journals such as Urban Studies, Town Planning Review, Environment and Planning and the International Small Business Journal.