Rob Berkeley has been Director of the Runnymede since January 2009. He was Deputy Director between 2005 and 2009. His doctoral studies focused on exclusion from school.

He has been Chair of governors at a South London primary school, Chair of Naz Project London (which provides sexual health and HIV prevention and support services to various minority ethnic communities), and a Trustee of Stonewall, and the Equality and Diversity Forum, and a member of the Commission on 2020 Public Services.