Peter Westgarth

Peter was appointed Chief Executive of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in 2005 and has led the development of eDofE, the on-line system for recording and managing DofE activity, professionalised organisational processes and, most importantly, over the past decade has increased Award completion by 93% whilst costs have increased by just 35%. Prior to that, Peter was UK Chief Executive of Young Enterprise. He held the post from 1990 to 2005 and was President of YE Europe for a period of 6 years, growing the organisation from 6 founding member countries to 19 member nations. In 2003 he was awarded the Bata JA Life-time Achievement Award for his services to enterprise education. Peter was also awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion in June 2006 Peter was UK Director of the “Livewire” youth business programme from 1985-1990. He is a qualified teacher, has worked in newspaper advertising and has several years’ experience as a professional charity fund-raiser.