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Rupert Andrew Woodward Goodman, FRGS DL (born 17 April 1963) is a British publisher, international affairs expert and businessman.
Life and career
Goodman was born in Kidderminster. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge where he represented the university in the Varsity Athletics Match as a hurdler. He was also Secretary of the Pitt Club. After graduating from Cambridge, Goodman worked at J. Walter Thompson in London. In 1984 he founded FIRST, a multi-disciplinary international affairs organisation, he is currently chairman of FIRST. FIRST received Queen's Awards for Enterprise in both 2010 and 2013 for success in international markets.
He is a founding trustee and chairman of the British-Kazakh Society, and a founding director of Equilibrium. He is the chairman of World Petroleum, Global Energy and World Energy Insight. He was elected a founding director of NewWaveSolutions, a subsidiary of DEME, in 2016.
In 2012 Goodman was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London. He is also the recipient of a London Metropolitan Police Commissioner's Commendation and is a Freeman of the City of London.
Goodman is a Vice President of Flora and Fauna International and a member of the development board of Artes Mundi. He founded the Responsible Capitalism Initiative in 2000. Between 2005 and 2008 he was a Trustee of the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
Goodman was appointed Deputy Chairman and a Trustee of Prince's Trust International in 2016.