Andrew Charles Robert Barnett (born 1968) is the Director of the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Barnett was born in New South Wales and has dual Australian and British citizenship. He attended the University of St Andrews, graduating in 1990 with an MA in Modern History. In 2002, Barnett was the Director of Communications at the

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, where the advocacy plan for bidding London as a host city for the

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was developed. From 2005-2007 he was Director of Communications at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Housing Trust. In 2007, he took on the directorship of the UK branch of the

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. He is a director of the Forces in Mind Trust and a committee member of Healthwatch England. Barnett was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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for services to social change.

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