Steve Fuller

Steve Fuller was born in East Kent and educated at Kent College in Canterbury. After his first degree in geography at University College London, he worked in Canada for a year, then back in the UK for Nielsen’s market research company Colleagues there inspired in him an interest in town planning and he took a postgraduate degree in that subject. This led to his appointment in 1973 as a corporate planner with MKDC, where he stayed until redundancy in 1990.

During his time at MKDC he developed a strong interest in overseas development projects so from 1990 to 1995 worked in Zimbabwe on the establishment of a new local government system: he says: ‘it was a pretty hairy operation’; but it gives him great pride. Returning to the UK in 1995 to care for family members, he then worked on a PhD, drawing on his Zimbabwe experience, at the University of Kent and now works on local projects.