Robert Oulds

Robert Oulds FRSA is a British Conservative politician and military historian. Previously a senior program producer at London Network Radio, he is now Director of the Bruges Group, a think tank based in London, and a councillor of the London Borough of Hounslow.

Oulds was educated at the London Guildhall University, where in 2001 he gained the post-graduate degree of MA in Communications Management. In his final years as a student, from 1998 to 2001, he also worked for London Network Radio, producing sports programmes and commentating live on football matches.

Since 2002 Oulds has served as a Conservative councillor in the London Borough of Hounslow, and from 2006 to 2009 was Chairman of its Planning Committee, then for 2009–2010 was the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Education and Children's Services. He was adopted as the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Slough, but was deselected after allegations had appeared in The Sun and The Financial Times regarding firearms offences. He was then Chairman of the Slough Conservative Association, serving from 2006 to 2008. From 2013 to 2016 he returned to the same role as Chairman of the Brentford and Isleworth Conservative Association, covering the constituency where he is a borough councillor.

Oulds is the Director of the Bruges Group, a think tank which concentrates on the debate about the British relationship with the European Union and the wider world. Set up in February 1989, its inspiration was Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech in September 1988, in which she remarked that, "We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level". The Bruges Group's research now aims to promote less centralised European structures than those of the EU and explores a complete restructuring of Britain's relationship with other European countries.

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