Kevin McGrath is the High Sheriff of the County of Greater London in Nomination for 2014/2015 (www.highsheriffs.com).
McGrath is the Senior Adviser to F&C REIT Asset Management,[1] an investment management company with a global property investment portfolio of over £8.5 billion and has offices in London, Dublin, Munich, Stockholm, and Mumbai.
He was a candidate for the European Parliament 2009 elections. He was previously a candidate for the North East Hampshire constituency at the 2005 General Election and for Ealing Council in the 2006 London Council Elections.
McGrath graduated from the Polytechnic of the South Bank with a BSc in Estate Management (Distiction). He also obtained a post graduation Diploma in Property Investment (Award Winner) from the College of Estate Management. Born in west London and currently living in Ealing, McGrath is married to Kate McGrath and they have two young children.
Prior to working for F&C REIT, McGrath was a founding equity Partner in REIT Asset Management, a property investment, finance, and asset management partnership, which managed over £3.5 billion of commercial property around the world and had offices in London, Munich, Tel Aviv, Stockholm, and Mumbai.
Immediately prior to REIT McGrath was Senior Investment Surveyor with Hermes, the Fund Manager for the British Telecommunication and Post Office Pension Schemes. Before that he worked for London Councils in various property related positions. And prior to that he worked in manufacturing and banking.
McGrath is a Chartered Surveyor who has worked in the property industry over 25 years and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Investment Property Forum, the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors and is a Freeman of the City of London.
McGrath is Founder and Chair of the McGrath Charitable Trust (www.themcgrathcharitabletrust.co.uk); Chair Designate of The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith (www.lyric.co.uk); Vice chair and co founder of The Clink Prison Restaurant Charity (www.theclinkcharity.com) the first and only commercial restaurant to be built inside a working British prison; Co-Founder and Chair of The Islamix Foundation (www.islamixonline.com); and Chair of QPR Ladies Football Club.
He is Trustee of the Guildford School of Acting; ; The National Education Trust; The Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship; The Howard League for Penal reform; and The WAVE Trust.
He is also a UCLH Cancer Centre Development Board member: an Ambassador for the Commonwealth Youth Enterprise Project and The Make Justice Work Charity; London South Bank University Court Member; Honorary Vice President of the Commonwealth Youth Orchestra & Choir and a Board of Governors of Phoenix High and Canberra Schools Federation.
McGrath served as a Commissioner on the Independent Commission on English Prisons Today under the leadership of Cherie Booth (www.prisoncommission.org.uk) and currently sits on the Criminal Justice Policy Working Group under the Leadership of the Rt Hon Sadiq Kahn MP Shadow Justice Minister (www.justicereview.org.uk).
Kevin is a former Director and Chairman of Queens Park Rangers Football Club plc and a former Trustee of The Chartered Surveyors Training Trust and The Prison Advice and Care Trust.
In March 2009 McGrath became owner of the left-of-centre Tribune magazine,[2][3][4] but relinquished ownership at the end of October 2011.[5]