 In addition to this role he is Vice-Patron of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, a Patron of Jewish Care and the Community Safety Trust, and was founding Co-Chairman of Teach First.He is also a Director of London First, and on the Advisory Board of the financial services organisation TheCityUK.In 2016 he was appointed a member of the Government's Thames Estuary Commission  chaired by Michael Heseltine.