Charlie Pate

Biography

Charlie Pate has been in the UK Civil Service since 1999. After a number of roles working on welfare issues and local government performance, Charlie headed HM Treasury’s early engagement on the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games programme. He then performed a similar role on various transport projects including Crossrail.

Promoted to the Senior Civil Service in 2009, Charlie returned to the 2012 Games programme as Head of Finance for the Government Olympic Executive. His team won the Government Finance Profession’s Award for Outstanding Contribution in 2012.

Following the Games, Charlie returned to HM Treasury as Head of the Home and Legal Spending Team, overseeing £20-billion of budgets across the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and Crown Prosecution Service, leading the 2013 spending round and supporting several substantial reform programmes, including probation, courts and border operations.

Charlie joined the Ministry of Defence in 2015 as Director of Resources at Air Command. A member of the Air Force Board, Charlie was responsible for the RAF’s £6-billion budget and leadership of the 5,000 civilians working with the RAF. He went on to become the MOD’s Director of Financial Planning and Scrutiny in 2018 with responsibility for the management and allocation of the Department’s £36-billion annual budget, and the scrutiny and approvals of all significant investment programmes.

Charlie was promoted to Director General Finance in March 2020.