Duncan is a Chartered Accountant with over 40 years’ experience in professional practice.
After attending Okehampton Comprehensive School 1973-1980, he took a Management Sciences degree at UMIST. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in London in 1986 and obtained his Insolvency Licence in 1990.
A nationally recognised farming and food production specialist, after a related degree from Seale Hayne, University of Plymouth, and numerous high-profile food supplier business rescues, Duncan provides regular media commentary on supermarket/supplier trading terms, the Groceries Supply Code of Practice and its Adjudicator. In 2019, he authored the Lloyd’s of London Evolving Risks in Global Food Supply report.
In 2019-20, he was President of R3, the UK trade association for the restructuring and insolvency profession. In 2022, he co-founded Azets Plymouth office.
He is a member of Plymouth Area Business Council, and Treasurer of the Peninsula Medical Foundation.
