Rob Davies' work is dedicated to the strategic development of information services and libraries internationally and their connections with culture, education, media literacy and economic development in the digital era.

After 14 years with The British Council in Cairo, Jakarta, Singapore and at its London HQ, he formed a specialist organisation. In this role, he was responsible for instigating and leading numerous European projects, including several under the umbrella of the European Digital Libraries Initiative (Europeana) and worked as a consultant on projects funded by bodies such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Development Fund and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in more than 40 countries.

In recent years, he has led a landscape study of public libraries and analogous institutions in three provinces of China and co-authored 'Fostering a digitally-inclusive aging society in China: the potential of public libraries' published by the World Bank in June, 2014. In 2015, he also advised the British Council, on a Library Landscape Study in Bangladesh, prior to a forthcoming national project.

Among his current and recent work:

• Senior Adviser to NIDA (Network for Information and Digital Access).

• Chair of a Task Force on public library makerspaces which is about to establish a European public library makerspace network.

• Member of the Management Board of the Transition Project for the National Library of Greece, to move to its new home at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre in Athens in 2017.

• Evaluation and sustainability consultant to Future Library on the INELI-Balkans regional library leadership project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

• Libraries expert on the USAID-funded Sindh Reading Project being implemented by Chemonics International in Pakistan

• Adviser to the ITN-DCH project to create a European cadre of cultural heritage PhD fellows under the EU Marie Curie programme.

• Advising the Cyprus University of Technology on its business development plans in digital cultural heritage and with the management of a new Europe-wide coordination action on Virtual Museums.