Will Cavendish

Biography

Will Cavendish was seconded to the Cabinet Office in February 2016.

He was the Director General of Innovation, Growth and Technology at the Department of Health from June 2014 to February 2016.

Before joining the department, he was Executive Director of the Implementation Group for the Cabinet Office, which was responsible for:

• implementing the PM and DPM’s top policy priorities
• monitoring and improving policy implementation across the whole of government
• the Open Public Service programme, responsible for the government’s parliament-long programme of public service reform
• the Red Tape Challenge, a pan-Whitehall programme to reduce and improve the stock of regulation on the statute book, thereby meeting the PM’s commitment to leave office having reduced the overall burden of regulation

Will has a PhD in Economics. He has worked for the World Bank and held a number of non-executive positions with organisations such as the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the Coram Children’s Charity.