Rodney Fitch CBE is Chairman of Fitch, founded in 1972.  An alumnus of Central Saint Martins, he served as Governor of the University of the Arts London (1989 - 2007) and has been hugely active in the evolution of design education and the arts.  Rodney is a former President of both the Chartered Society of Designers and the Designers & Art Directors Association and current Chairman of V&A Enterprises.  He was awarded a CBE in 1990 for services to the British Design Industry:

We are in the mother of recessions; Banks are bust; businesses, even countries are bankrupt. We will emerge from this economic wreckage into a different landscape, where it was never more important than to be educated. Furthermore, the new commercial and lifestyle reality is a very visual one in which art and design play an increasingly important role. Not only in training practitioners, but as business and social leaders. For twenty years CSM has played a major role in helping Britain to become a world centre for creativity. But in these changing and challenging times, what else must the college, indeed Britain do, to sustain this leadership.

Rodney explores the status of art and design education in the UK with Deborah Dawton (Chief Executive, Design Business Association), Dr Charles Saumarez Smith CBE (Secretary & Chief Executive, Royal Academy of the Arts), and Matthew Taylor (Chief Executive, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts).