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Ben Nicholson has been Deputy Head of Mission and Consul General at the British Office Sudan (Addis Ababa) since July 2023. Ben is a career diplomat and development professional. Previous postings have included Sudan (Develo…
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Ben joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2009. He was appointed Deputy British High Commissioner to Cyprus in September 2020, following temporary deployments as Deputy Ambassador to Tunisia and Morocc…
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Ben Rimmington is Director General, Net Zero Buildings and Industry at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DESNZ ). Before this, Ben was Director General, Net Zero Buildings and Industry at the Department for B…
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Ben Snowdon was the British Deputy High Commissioner in Rwanda from 2019 to 2022. Previously he was Head of the West Africa Team in Africa Directorate in London. Ben joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 2015 after…
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Ben joined BDUK in October 2021 as Deputy Director for Risk, Compliance and Governance. His role includes: governance, assurance, fraud and compliance, subsidy control, risk management, internal audit and data protection. Be…
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Benedict Llewellyn-Jones OBE has been British High Commissioner to Rwanda and non-resident Ambassador to Burundi since January 2011. Benedict joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2007. He has previously served in th…
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Benjamin Disraeli The Earl of Beaconsfield served as Prime Minister between 1868 to 1868 and 1874 to 1880. Read more about the life and achievements of Benjamin Disraeli The Earl of Beaconsfield in our past Prime Ministers s…
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Bernadette Conroy is Chair of the Board at RSH . Bernadette is an experienced Chair and Non-Executive Director operating across a number of sectors. These include financial services regulation, where she is a NED for the Fin…
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Bernard Gray was appointed Chief of Defence Materiel for the MOD in January 2011. He has a 20-year association with defence issues and is the author of the Review of acquisition , prepared for the then Secretary of State for…
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Bernard Herdan has been a Non-executive director of the Disclosure and Barring Service since December 2012.
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Bernhard Garside is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983. Bernhard has had postings in Muscat (Oman), Dubai (UAE), Lagos (Nigeria), Havana (Cuba), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and Khartoum…
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Bernice became Executive Director for Repayments and Customer Compliance in March 2018. She joined the Student Loans Company (SLC) in February 2016 as Director of Change and Programme Management. Previously, Bernice was a ma…
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Beth Cadman is Deputy Head of Mission for the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in South Sudan. Beth has been based at the British Embassy in Juba since November 2023. Beth joined the Department for Internati…
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Beth Russell has recently been appointed as the Second Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and is based in the Darlington Economic Campus. Beth has worked in the Treasury since 2000 in a range of policy roles across tax, wel…
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Beth became Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on National Resilience and Security in the Cabinet Office in February 2020 after 20 years working in the civil service, mostly on national security is…
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Beth West joined High Speed Two Limited as Commercial Director in October 2012. Her previous roles include: Head of Commercial for Thames Water’s Thames tideway tunnel project Principal in the corporate finance team at Trans…
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Betsy was Director General Chief Operating Officer in Defra from September 2014 to January 2019. Prior to joining Defra she spent 12 years at Centrica/British Gas in a number of different roles. Her most recent role was as S…
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Bev is an experienced non-executive director, having held a range of non-executive roles within the public sector including Vice Chair, Committee Chair and Senior Independent Director. She has a background in HR and organisa…
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Bev was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee for the Coal Authority in April 2023. Bev has been pursuing a non-executive director career since April 2022. She currentl…
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Beverley Bell was the Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain. Previous roles in government Traffic Commissioner for the north west of England 2000 to 2017 Senior Traffic Commissioner 2012 to 2017 Career Beverley worke…
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Beverley Simpson was the British Consul General in Denver from November 2011 to December 2015.
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Beverley Taylor was Deputy Official Solicitor between 2012 and 2014.
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Beverley Tew is the Lead Non-Executive Director at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. She was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in September 2020 and served as Interim Lead Non-Executive Director before …
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Bharat was born in Croydon, United Kingdom in 1969. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1995 and has had diplomatic postings to the Gambia, Dhaka and Qatar. He was most recently British High Commissioner t…
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As Chief Operating Officer, Bhaskar leads UKEF’s operations and business management, technology, operational risk, directing digital transformation and change programmes. He is also responsible for developing and delivering …
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Bhavna Sharma has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Buenos Aires since May 2023. She is a diplomat, political scientist and an international development expert with a wide-ranging and varied career in the…
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Bidesh Sarkar became Interim Director General, Chief Operating Officer, at the Department for Business and Trade in February 2023. He was Interim Director General, Chief Operating Officer, at the Department for International…
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Bill was born in 1943 and was educated in Edinburgh. He joined the Post Office as a management trainee in 1961 and in 1981 he was appointed to the Post Office Board. He had various Board appointments including Finance Direct…
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Bill Crothers joined the Civil Service in 2007, and was the Government’s Chief Commercial Officer from April 2012 until November 2015. Bill started his civil service career in the Home Office where he later became Group Comm…
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Bill Dickson is currently Chairman of the Broads Authority, Director National Parks England, National Parks UK, National Parks Partnership, and a member of the Norfolk Public Sector Leaders Board. Following a few years as an…
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Bill Dodwell is a Non-Executive Director at HM Revenue and Customs (appointed in October 2024). He was Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification, having previously worked in the OTS as a Senior Policy Adviser. Prior …
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Bill joined the MCA on 20 January 2015 to take up the post of Director of Strategy and Corporate Services after thirty five years military service.
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Bill Griffiths has been the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) board chairman since 1 December 2012. Bill Griffiths was also a non-executive at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ).
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Bill Hamilton is an experienced senior communications professional who has more than 20 years’ experience as a senior leader in various roles. Prior to joining Magnox, Bill worked at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as …
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Bill Murray became Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman in September 2021. Murray joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 2003, following a career as an officer in the Royal Marines. Bill has spent much …
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Bill is an independent consultant and non-executive board director. He serves as chair of a residential development company and is a non-executive director at the Houses of Parliament. He has previously worked at board level…
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Bim Afolami was Economic Secretary to the Treasury between 13 November 2023 and 5 July 2024.
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Blondel Cluff is a co-opted member of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. She will attend meetings relevant to her work on the Windrush Working Group. Blondel is a solicitor of over 37 years standing and a Fellow …
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Bob was previously Chief Executive of the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), the organisation which was responsible for providing leadership and support to NHS trusts and whose responsibilities transferred to NHS Improve…
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Bob Gilbert CBE is a corporate lawyer who, for 30 years until his retirement from private practice, was a partner and latterly Deputy Senior Partner of Wragge & Co, now Wragge Lawrence Graham, the International Law Firm.…
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Bob Neill was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from May 2010 to September 2012. He was elected Conservative MP for Bromley and Chislehurst on 29 June 2006. He was …
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Bob Spedding (appointed in 2013) graduated with a law degree from Warwick University in 1975 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1978. He retired in 2011 after 25 years as a partner in KPMG where he worked with a wide…
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Bob Spedding joined the Board and became Audit Committee chair in April 2013. Before this he spent 25 years as a partner at KPMG, a company which provides audit and tax advice services. Bob retired in 2011 but he still holds…
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Boyd McCleary arrived in Tortola on 20 August 2010 to take up the position of Governor in the British Virgin Islands. Boyd has worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since 1975. During his career he has served in Ger…
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Bradley became Regional Director, South West in January 2014. His previous work at Ofsted focused on school improvement and on policy and frameworks. He was also a senior inspector in Ofsted’s South East region. Before he wa…
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Brendan Clarke-Smith was appointed Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office on 8 September 2022. Brendan Clarke-Smith was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families) at the Dep…
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Following service in the Royal Navy and Civil Service( UKAEA and ACAS ), Brendan held a number of senior management posts in the Engineering Employers Federation, Lucas Industries plc and TRW specialising in the aerospace an…
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Brendan Threlfall is Director General for Strategy and Communications at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. He is responsible for leading the Department’s work on its overall strategy and priorities. …