David Sinclair, Head of Policy, Age Concern and Help the Aged

David Sinclair is Head of Policy at the merging charities Age Concern and Help the Aged. He manages the Social Inclusion and Health and Social Care policy teams, working on a wide variety of policy issues and focused on tackling disadvantage.

David has led Help the Aged's work on older consumers as well as work on financial services, digital exclusion, technology and older people and digital TV switchover. David is a member of a wide range of Government and voluntary sector working groups including the DCMS Digital TV Consumer Expert Group and Ministerial Steering Group; the ABI Insurance and Age task force, and the Treasury's Vulnerable Consumers Group.

David joined Help the Aged from the Charity Finance Directors' Group, where he worked in a policy role. He has also worked for a disability organisation and environmental organisations in policy and public affairs roles. In previous roles David has worked for an MP in the House of Commons and backbench parliamentary committees (including the Parliamentary Environment Group, the all party group on prostitution and the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group).