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  • Cath was the Executive Director for Standards, Research and Analysis at Ofqual between 2022 and 2023, after joining Ofqual in 2009. Her previous roles include: Acting Director, Strategy, Risk and Research, Ofqual Director, S…

  • Catherine (Kate) Knight-Sands was appointed as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Montenegro in December 2009. Before this, she was the Political Counsellor in Baghdad, and from 2004 to 2007 she was the Deputy Head of Mission in Sa…

  • Catherine Arnold was the British Ambassador to Mongolia from June 2015 until February 2018. Catherine joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 2006 and has worked on a range of issues including human rights, cou…

  • Catherine Berney has been appointed as the Strategy People and Culture Lead NED at GLD. Catherine is a qualified organisational psychologist with a background in law and international finance. Catherine has held a previous N…

  • Catherine joined HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) as Chief Financial Officer in June 2024.  Prior to that Catherine was Finance and Business Director for Transformation/Change in HMRC. This isn’t Catherine’s first rol…

  • Ms Catherine Brooker was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire in January 2021. Curriculum Vitae Full name: Catherine Brooker Year Role 2016 to present FCDO, Head Whitehall Nigeria Unit and Depu…

  • Catherine Brown was appointed as a Non-Executive Member of the Cabinet Office Board in November 2015. Catherine is a Non-Executive Director of Metro Bank plc. She is a trustee of Cancer Research UK and the Royal Institute of…

  • Catherine Doran was non-executive member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs board from December 2011 to November 2017. She is also a Non-Executive Director for the Coventry Building Society, a role she…

  • Catherine Doran has been a Non-Executive Director of the Disclosure and Barring Service since March 2015.

  • Catherine is a qualified chartered accountant. From 1988 to 2002, Catherine worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, latterly as an audit partner based in Johannesburg. For over 20 years, Catherine has developed an extensive portfo…

  • Catherine Frances is Director General, Local Government, Resilience and Communities at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Catherine was previously, from April 2019 to September 2021, Director General,…

  • Catherine Inglehearn is His Majesty’s Ambassador to Niger. Catherine joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1990. Her Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office career has included a wide range of roles co…

  • Catherine is Executive Director for Vocational and Technical Qualifications and joined Ofqual in 2016. Her previous roles include: Director of Vocational Qualifications, Ofqual Joint CEO, Creative & Cultural Skills

  • Catherine Lee was appointed as Director General of the Law and Access to Justice Group (now the Justice and Courts Policy Group) in September 2013, having been Acting Director General of the Justice Policy Group before this.…

  • Cat started her career at the accountancy firm PwC, joining the Civil Service in 2013 first at the Legal Aid Agency moving on to become the Group Finance Director at the Ministry of Justice overseeing all aspects of financia…

  • Catherine McKinnell was appointed Minister of State (Minister for School Standards) at the Department for Education on 8 July 2024. She was elected as the Labour MP for Newcastle Upon Tyne North in May 2010.

  • Catherine joined the UK Space Agency from the Home Office in January 2012 to lead work on the Agency’s goal of growing the UK space sector. She leads the development of new uses, new users, new applications, new technologies…

  • 2016 - 2020 Representative, British Office, Taipei 2016 Full time language training, Mandarin 2015 Director of Protocol, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) 2010 – 2014 HM Ambassador, Caracas 2006 – 2010 HM…

  • Catherine Pridham qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andresen and has worked in the pharmaceutical sector for SmithKline Beecham, Amersham plc and GE Healthcare, where she supported a number of different busines…

  • Catherine Quinn joined the Charity Commission as a board member in November 2016. She is the Private Secretary to HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. She was previously the Chief Operating Officer and Associate Dean at Oxford Univ…

  • Catherine Salway was appointed as a non-executive director at the Intellectual Property Office in September 2024. Catherine is an experienced Board Director who previously accumulated 7 years of board seats within the Virgin…

  • Catherine Vaughan was appointed as Finance Director General for the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) in October 2022. Before joining DWP , Catherine was the Director General and Chief Operating Officer for the Depart…

  • Catherine is the Director of Policy in the Europe Unit at the Cabinet Office. Catherine began her civil service career in 2000 and held various roles in the Treasury for 11 years. She then took up the role of Economic and Tr…

  • Catherine West was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 9 July 2024. Since 2015 she has been the Labour MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet. Catherine studied m…

  • Catherine was the interim Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management for the Environment Agency between December 2020 and April 2021. She has been at the Environment Agency for more than 20 years in a wide range…

  • Cathrine was Chief Customer Officer at the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) from 2018 to June 2022. Cathrine joined the UKHO in 2018 after an extensive global career in industry and government across environment, geospatial, te…

  • Cathryn was appointed Regional Director, North East Yorkshire and Humber in November 2016. Her previous roles in Ofsted include Senior Operational lead for the North East, Yorkshire and Humber, and Principal Officer, Schools…

  • Cathy Bassa is the UK’s Deputy Ambassador and His Majesty’s Consul to Cuba. Cathy arrived in Havana in August 2021 following her role as Deputy Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire. Cathy joined the Diplomatic Service in 2003 and has…

  • Cathy became Director of Strategy for PHE in May 2020 after 6 years with the agency working in a number of policy and strategy roles including Deputy-Director of Strategy. Cathy has been PHE’s Head of Policy Profession since…

  • Catrina Holme is Non-executive Director, Board to HM Land Registry. She started her career as a private equity lawyer at City law firm Travers Smith and has a background in the venture capital and private equity industry hav…

  • Catriona Graham was appointed British Consul General in Milan and Director of the Department for Business and Trade in Italy from October 2019 till September 2024. Catriona was previously Commercial Counsellor at the British…

  • Catriona Wendy Campbell Laing CB, was the British High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria from November 2018 to May 2023. Prior to this she was the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe from 2014 to 2018. Catriona has …

  • Catriona Mace took up her role as Foreign and Development Policy Director at the UK Mission to the European Union in August 2022. Before that, Catriona was Deputy Director Corporate Transformation in the Foreign, Commonwealt…

  • Catriona has been in the Civil Service since 1985 and has undertaken a number of roles for DWP (and its predecessors), including acting Work Services Director for Scotland, until she joined the RPA in July 2018. She has cons…

  • Catriona Williams OBE is currently the Chief Executive of Children in Wales and was a leading member of the campaign to establish the first Children’s Commissioner for Wales. She was also a founder member of Eurochild, the a…

  • Cecilia was appointed Chief Executive of the Parole Board in October 2024. She has significant public service experience having worked in central government for over 25 years in a range of operational delivery, corporate ser…

  • Cecille El Beleidi became the British Consul-General, Jeddah in September 2022. Cecille joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) in 1983. Before, she has worked in Kuwait, Nepal, Morocco, Eygpt, Saudi Arabia, Qat…

  • A qualified lawyer and consultant, Celia has spent most of the last 20 years in commercial roles working on major infrastructure projects for both the public and private sectors in the areas of road and rail transport, power…

  • Ceri Richards is a member of the Board at RSH. She is an independent consultant with a portfolio of interests.

  • Ceri Smith became Director General, Strategy and Investment in the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) in February 2023. From April 2021 he was Director General, Strategy and Investment at the Department for Internationa…

  • Ceri joined Companies House in 2015. Ceri has a degree in mathematics from Cardiff University and started her career in the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), where she held a variety of different roles. She began as a pate…

  • Chandru Iyer is the Deputy High Commissioner to Karnataka and Kerala. He was appointed in November 2022. In addition, he is also His Majesty’s Deputy Trade Commissioner for Investment for South Asia with a mandate to further…

  • Chantal joined the Homes and Communities Agency now known as Homes England in January 2017 as the Interim Chief Risk Officer for both the agency and the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Prior to joini…

  • Charles Alexander worked at Rothschild from 1974-99, latterly as Managing Director of international corporate and project finance, specialising in cross-border Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and Europe. From 1988…

  • Charles Amies joined the Homes and Communities Agency in December 2008 as Head of Area for the South East Midlands area, and was appointed as the agency’s acting director for the Midlands in September 2013. His previous role…

  • Charles was appointed Chief Executive of UK Government Investments in March 2020, having joined in May 2018 as Head of the Financial Institutions Group. Prior to this, he had spent his career in investment banking. From 1987…

  • Charles Edmund Garrett joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1987. His career has been divided between Europe with postings in Cyprus and Switzerland, and East Asia with postings in Hong Kong and Taipei. More recen…

  • Charles Farr was appointed as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment at Cabinet Office in December 2015. Charles was the Director General of the Office for Security and …

  • Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey served as Prime Minister between 1830 to 1834. Read more about the life and achievements of Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey in our past Prime Ministers section.