Robert Davis MA MBE DL was an elected councillor on Westminster City Council for over thirty-six years. During this period, he served as Deputy Leader of the Council for ten years, chaired the councils Planning Committee for seventeen years and was Cabinet Member for the Built Environment for fifteen years.

In 1996, Robert was elected the, then youngest, Lord Mayor of Westminster in the citys history and subsequently acted as one of several Lord Mayor Locum Tenens (Deputy Lord Mayor) until 2018.

Robert served as chairman of the London Mayors Association (which represents the mayors and past mayors of all the thirty-three London boroughs) for 18 years.

Robert is a solicitor but after 32 years in practice retired in April 2015.

Robert is one of Her Majestys Deputy Lieutenants of Greater London and was awarded an MBE for service to local government and planning.

He was educated at Christs College Finchley, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and at Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Robert was chairman of the board of directors of the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park from 2009 to 2019. He is a trustee of both the Savoy Educational Trust and of Mousetrap Theatre Projects.

Widowed in May 2007, Robert entered a civil partnership with the late Sir Simon Milton, former Deputy Mayor of London and Chief of Staff to the then Mayor, Boris Johnson.

Robert is deputy chairman of the Sir Simon Milton Foundation, set up in Sir Simons memory to further his work as Leader of Westminster Council with particular emphasis on addressing loneliness among the elderly and on training the young.

Books by Robert J Davis