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  • Daljit Rehal is a senior technology and data executive with broad experience in the sector, including modernising digital capabilities, adopting Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies a…

  • Dalton Philips was a BIS non-executive board member from April 2012 to August 2015. Dalton was the Chief Executive of WM Morrison Supermarkets plc from March 2010 to February 2015. Prior to joining Morrisons, Dalton spent hi…

  • Alison Nimmo joined the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Board as a Non-Executive Director in April 2021.  She continued this role with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from Sep…

  • Dame Angela Eagle DBE was appointed Minister of State at the Home Office on 8 July 2024. She was elected as the MP for Wallasey in the general election of July 2024. Political career Angela  was first elected to Parliament i…

  • Dame Angela Watkinson DBE was appointed as a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life on 30 November 2012. She was reappointed in November 2015. She was elected as the MP for Upminster in 2001 and is a member of t…

  • Antonia Romeo became the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice in January 2021, with responsibility for criminal justice, prison and probation services, civil, family and criminal courts, legal services, and constit…

  • Barbara Hay served as British Consul General in Los Angeles from July 2009 to August 2013. Prior to that, Barbara was HM Consul General in Istanbul, where she arrived in early 2004 to lead the rebuilding of the Post followin…

  • Dame Barbara Stocking became the 5th President of Murray Edwards College, founded as New Hall, in July 2014. Prior to taking up her post at Murray Edwards College, Barbara was Chief Executive of Oxfam GB from May 2001 until …

  • Ambassador Barbara Woodward is the UK’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Since 2020, she has led the UK Mission’s work at the UN to protect and advance UK security and prosperity, and drive progres…

  • Bernadette Kelly became Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport on 18 April 2017. From September 2015 to April 2017, Bernadette Kelly was Director General, Rail Group in DfT. Prior to that she was a Director Gene…

  • Dame Caroline Spelman served as a member of Parliament from 1997-2019. During this time she undertook a number of front bench roles culminating in Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the coalition g…

  • Carolyn McCall was a non-executive board member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) from 2017 to 2020. Carolyn is the first female Chief Executive of ITV, joining in early 2018. She was prev…

  • Colette Bowe was a non-executive member of the Department for Transport Board from 1 September 2014 to 1 March 2017. Colette is the chairman of the Banking Standards Board (BSB) and also currently chairman of the Associated …

  • Dame Deborah Bronnert DCMG is Director General Europe (interim) at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). Deborah was the British Ambassador to the Russian Federation from January 2020 to October 2023 and…

  • Dame Fiona Caldicott was appointed National Data Guardian for health and adult social care in 2014, and her position was made statutory in April 2019 after the passing of the Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) A…

  • Dame Fiona Kendrick has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé UK and Ireland since October 2012, and is a Commissioner at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills . She is the first woman to head up the UK a…

  • Glenys Stacey re-joined Ofqual as interim Chief Regulator on 26 August 2020. Her first term at Ofqual was as CEO and Chief Regulator designate from March 2011, and as Chief Regulator from April 2012 until March 2016. From 20…

  • Dame Hazel Genn is Dean of Laws and Co-Director of the UCL Judicial Institute in the Faculty of Laws at University College London, where she is also an Honorary Fellow. She previously held a Chair and was Head of the Departm…

  • Helen Stephenson joined the Charity Commission as CEO in July 2017. Helen has extensive experience of senior leadership across the public and voluntary sectors, having previously served as Director of Early Years and Childca…

  • Dame Jayne-Anne is the Lead Non-Executive at HM Revenue and Customs ( HMRC ), and is Chair of Moneyfarm, Senior Independent Director at the Tate and a Senior Adviser both at UniCredit and at Vanquis Bank. From 2007 to 2018 s…

  • Dame Judith Hackitt joined HS2 in April 2019 and was the Chair of the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety and Chair of manufacturing trade body Make UK (formerly EEF). Dame Judith’s current positions i…

  • Dame Judith Macgregor was the British High Commissioner to South Africa from September 2013 until March 2017. After graduating from Oxford (LMH) with a first class degree in Modern History, and a year in Romania as a British…

  • Dr June Raine DBE is CEO of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. She trained in medicine in Oxford after completing a master’s degree by research in Pharmacology.  Her interest in drug safety led to a car…

  • Dame Kate Barker now holds a number of roles, mainly in financial services. She is Chairman of Trustees for the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme, and Chair-Elect of the Universities Superannuation Scheme. She is an N…

  • Dame Kate Dethridge started in her role as Regional Director for South East in September 2022. She has worked within the Department for Education as Regional Schools Commissioner and Deputy Director in the north-west London …

  • Louise Casey became Director General, Casey Review Team on 20 July 2015. At the request of the Prime Minister, she led a review into opportunity and integration in some of our most isolated communities. Career Louise started…

  • Dame Mariot Leslie joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1977. Her overseas postings have included Singapore (1978-81), Bonn (1982-86) and Rome (1998-2001), as well as two years spent on secondment to the French Foreign M…

  • Dame Martina was appointed Chair of the Social Mobility Commission on 13 July 2018. She has been Chief Executive of The Prince’s Trust Since 2004, where she has led work to remove barriers that many young people still face, …

  • Dame Mary Archer has been appointed as Non-Executive Board Member ( NEBM ) of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DESNZ ), taking up the role on 23 February 2024. Dame Mary Archer was an academic, specialising …

  • Mary has had a distinguished 40-year career in local government, culminating in her serving as Chief Executive of the Royal Borough of Greenwich for 14 years during a period of major regeneration and service transformation i…

  • Dame Menna Rawlings was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the French Republic in August 2021. Previously Menna was the Director-General Economic and Global Issues at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) from Mar…

  • Dame Nia Griffith DBE MP was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) in the Department for Education on 8 October 2024, in addition to her current role as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of…

  • Dame Nicola is British High Commissioner to South Africa from June 2009. She is also accredited to Lesotho and Swaziland. She is a career diplomat who has held senior public sector appointments both inside and outside the Di…

  • Dame Patricia Hodgson was appointed as a non-executive director of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in July 2023 and joined the Board of the Competition and Markets Authority as non-executive director in February …

  • Dame Sarah MacIntosh DCMG was appointed Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs in June 2022.   Previously she served as the United Kingdom’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative t…

  • Dame Sarah Storey has worked as a policy advocate for British Cycling with a particular focus on promoting road safety and access to cycling as transport for women and those with disabilities. In 2019 she was appointed as Ac…

  • Shan’s early career focussed on employment and social affairs policy. After graduating in French from Kent University in 1977, she joined the Employment Department, working on youth and adult employment policy and on vocatio…

  • Dame Shirley Pearce DBE has held senior executive and non-executive roles in higher education, health and policing. She was Vice Chancellor of Loughborough University from 2006 – 2012, where she delivered a new strategy for …

  • Sue has been headteacher at Lampton School, a large multi-ethnic mixed school in the centre of Hounslow, since 1997. The school has moved from being a low-performing, unpopular school to a school that is now oversubscribed a…

  • Dame Sue Street was a non-executive at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ).

  • Dame Una O’Brien DCB was Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health from 2010 to March 2016. She was previously the Department of Health’s Director General of Policy and Strategy, and prior to that the department’s Dire…

  • Damian joined the UKHO in 2008 as Head of the Strategy Team, before becoming Sales Director and then Chief Executive at our subsidiary SeaZone Solutions Ltd. He returned to the UKHO to take up the position of Head of Sales, …

  • Damian Collins was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport from 8 July 2022 to 27 October 2022.

  • Damian has been Director General Strategy and International since August 2021. His previous role was Director of Industrial Strategy and Exports. He has been Chief of Staff to four Secretaries of State, supporting and advisi…

  • Damian Paterson was appointed Director for Strategy, People & Culture in the Government Legal Department (GLD) in July 2021. Damian has spent most of his Civil Service career at the Ministry of Defence. After joining the…

  • Damien Moore was Assistant Government Whip between 20 September 2022 and 27 October 2022.

  • Damien Oliver was appointed interim Chief Executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) in October 2022. Damien is a Chartered Project Professional through the Association of Project Managers with experience in proje…

  • Mr Damion Potter was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Panama 2017 to 2021. Prior to this, Damion was Deputy Representative and Director of International Trade in Taipei. Previous postings include Moscow and Sweden…