Dr Henry Tam
Dr. Henry Tam is Deputy Director (Community Resource) at the Department for Communities & Local Government. He was previously Head of Civil Renewal at the Home Office where he devised the cross-government Together We Can action plan.
Prior to joining the Home Office, he was the Deputy Chief Executive at St Edmundsbury Borough Council where his duties included corporate management and community development. He directed the Borough’s successful bid for Beacon Council status. His work on democratic engagement with young people won a Best Practice Award from the Prime Minister in 1999.
Henry read Philosophy, Politics & Economics at the University of Oxford and has a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of Hong Kong. He is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Lifelong Learning, Birkbeck, London University, and a Fellow of the Globus Institute for Globalization and Sustainable Development, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. His published books include: Progressive Politics in the Global Age (Polity Press); Communitarianism: A New Agenda for Politics & Citizenship (Macmillan); and Responsibility and Personal Interactions (Edwin Mellen Press).
