David Graham Forbes Chalk

David Graham Forbes Chalk (born 1959 at Whitechapel, London), is a British business administrator in social care, serving as Lay Sheriff of the City of London for 2024/25.^[1]

David Chalk
Sheriff of the City of London
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 September 2024
Preceded by	Bronek Masojada
Succeeded by	in office
Personal details
Born	David Graham Forbes Chalk 1959 London, England
Spouse	Miranda née Passey
Parents	Philip Alexander Forbes Chalk FRCOG (father) Jean née Doughty (mother)
Education	Radley College
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh (BSc)
Profession	Marketing; Social care
Website	www.davidchalk.co.uk

Background and education

Born in 1959 at the London Hospital to surgeon, Philip Chalk (1930–2015) and Jean née Doughty,^[2] Chalk was educated at Chigwell School then Radley College, before going up to the University of Edinburgh where he read Agricultural Sciences (BSc).^[3]

Career

With WPP from 1982 to 1995 as director of marketing at the Henley Centre for Forecasting, Chalk then joined City think-tank, Future Foundation^[4] as marketing partner, before in 2003 becoming director of strategy & research at Age Concern Enterprises.^[5]

Founding managing director of Windrush Care since 2015,^[6] a home care agency,^[7] Chalk was elected to the board of directors of the Homecare Association (UKHCA) in 2017, representing smaller home care businesses.^[8]

Charitable service

MStJ insignia

Joining the Worshipful Company of Drapers in 1982, Chalk became a Liveryman in 1986, being elected a Court Assistant in 2008, before serving as Master Draper for 2021/22.^[9]

Elected as City Lay Sheriff for 2024/25, Chalk was previously Governor of two Drapers' Company schools Thomas Adams School, Wem in Shropshire and Howell's School in Llandaff and Chairman of the Thomas Howell Education Fund for North Wales.^[10]

In 2025, Chalk was appointed MStJ.^[11]

Family

David Chalk married Miranda Passey FRHS in 1985, and lives in Gloucestershire. He has two younger sisters.

Of matrilineal Scottish descent, their father was Dr Philip Chalk, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Free Hospital, who served as Master Draper for 1981/82.