Ceri Smith
Biography
Ceri Smith is Director General, Office for Investment at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). From April 2021, he was Director General, Strategy and Investment at the Department for International Trade (DIT).
He joined DIT after 8 years at UK Government Investments where, among other things, he set up the British Business Bank, and led on the government’s shareholder interests in Channel 4, the Land Registry, Homes England and the Ordnance Survey. He was a Non-Executive Director at the British Business Bank and a Non-Executive member of the Homes England Board.
Ceri previously spent almost 20 years across a range of economic policy roles in HM Treasury and the Business Department, in Brussels with the Foreign Office and with the DTI’s Small Business Service.
Ceri is a former Trustee of the MS Society and a current governor of Camden School for Girls.
Director General for Investment
The Director General for Investment is the Chief Executive of the Office for Investment, a joint unit reporting to the Department for Business and Trade, HM Treasury and Number 10 Downing Street.
The Office for Investment (OfI) works across government to land top-tier investment into the UK.