Neil Warwick OBE

Chair of the Board

Neil is a partner in Knights plc, the UK’s largest regional legal services business. He has specialised in EU and competition law for over 30 years.

As well as practicing law Neil is also the National Chair for International and Regulation for the Federation of Small Businesses, having previously been the National Chair for Brexit. He has held several non-executive positions and has also co-founded a not-for-profit business which places non-executive directors with pre-revenue start-up businesses.

In 2018, Neil was awarded an OBE for services to the economy and charitable work with young people.

“I knew of the work of New Writing North as Claire and I served as trustees together at The Community Foundation for Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. The creativity and success of our writers is undeniably impressive and has reached international acclaim. However equally impressive are the out-reach programmes we run in some of the most under-privileged schools in the country and this aspect of our work is of particular interest to me”