Patrick Dunne
Group Communications Director, 3i
A Cranfield alumnus, Patrick is Marketing and Communications director for 3i Group plc
and a member of its Operating Committee. With operations in Europe, Asia and the
Americas 3i has £13 billion of assets under management. He did his first degree in
Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Warwick and prior to gaining his MBA
at Cranfield and joining 3i in 1985, spent four years in the Chemical industry with Air
Products.
He is a member of the General Council of Warwick University, a Visiting Professor at
Cranfield School of Management and Chairman of the charity LEAP – Confronting Conflict,
the UK’s leading charity in the area of youth and conflict. In 2006 Patrick founded
Warwick in Africa, a charity which is transforming the teaching of Maths and English in
some of the poorest schools in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania. Warwick in Africa has
already benefited over 90,000 young Africans and is growing rapidly. Both Leap and
Warwick in Africa have recently been featured in BBC programmes for the significant
impact that they having.
Having written three successful books on what he calls the joy of the boardroom, Patrick
has also become a commentator on board issues and speaks and trains on this subject
around the world.
www.3i.com
www.leapconfrontingconflict.org.uk
www.wawick.ac.uk/go/warwickinafrica