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Liane Saunders is the British Ambassador to Oman. Prior to this appointment, they were the Staff Counsellor at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from 2021 to 2023. Liane has previously served in diplomatic r…
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Louisa Murdin FRCP PhD MSc BM BCh is a consultant in Audiovestibular Medicine within the Ear Nose and Throat Service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, in London. She is an honorary associate professor at UCL Ear …
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A strategic partnering expert, Dr Luc Bardin is an advisor to world-leading companies including the Toyota Motor Corporation, and to the UK Government’s Cabinet Office and Ministry of Defence. He is chair of two companies he…
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Dr Mason was appointed Head of the Defence and Security Accelerator (Accelerator) on 21 March 2017. As Head of the Accelerator, Lucy is responsible for building strong relationships between defence and security departments w…
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Dr Madeleine Sumption is the Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, which provides impartial analysis of migration in the UK for public and policy audiences. Her research focuses on labour migrati…
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Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a Commissioner for the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE is an award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author who has worked with several educational ins…
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Malcolm Burns joined the Government Chemist programme in October 2000. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the field of molecular biology and is also the Manager for the UK National Reference Laboratory for Genetically …
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Dr Malcolm McKibbin is Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service ( NICS ) and leads more than 27,000 civil servants. He is also Permanent Secretary of the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern I…
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Dr Manuela Gazzard became a Non-Executive Director of Crown Commercial Service in August 2021. Dr Gazzard is currently Group Director of Regulatory Services at BSI. In her role, she is responsible for leading the Regulatory …
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Marc is a molecular biologist with a PhD in Pathology. Marc has had a varied career starting with academic research on infectious diseases before establishing a team developing physical standards for biotechnology at the Nat…
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Before joining the VMD in May 2015, Dr Marie Hendrickx spent over 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry in major animal health companies, mostly in the UK, with spells in France and Belgium. She held several posts includin…
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Dr Mark Treherne was appointed chief executive in August 2012. A research scientist with a PhD in Pharmacology from Cambridge University, he has more than 25 years industrial experience in the discovery of novel treatments f…
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Dr Martin Longden is the British Ambassador to Libya. Prior to this appointment, Dr Martin was Chargé d’Affaires ad Interim of the UK Mission to Afghanistan in Doha from September 2021 to January 2022. Before that, he was in…
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Martin Read is Chairman of Wincanton plc and the UK Government’s Senior Salaries Review Body. Martin is a former chairman of Laird plc, the Remuneration Consultants Group and of the two government owned companies which manag…
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Mary is an independent consultant specialising in environmental research strategy, co-ordination and implementation. She has 14 years’ leadership experience in the UK’s Research Councils, mainly the Natural Environment Resea…
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Matt James is currently the Commercial Managing Director at UK Trade and Investment (UKTI). Matt is an experienced commercial and project director working for the UK government. He has a record of successful delivery of comp…
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Matthew Rowland arrived in Somalia on 4 June 2019 as Deputy Ambassador. He was previously UK Ambassador/ Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Matthew joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Dev…
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Michael Grenfell took up his role as Executive Director, Enforcement, at the Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ) in 2015. Working closely with the Chief Executive, and as a member of the CMA Board, Michael’s role inclu…
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Michael Walker joined the Government Chemist Programme in August 2006 in a consulting capacity. In Northern Ireland he was resident Public Analyst (1986 to 2004) and Chief Executive, Forensic Science Northern Ireland (2004 t…
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Dr Michelle Meadows is our Deputy Chief Regulator and Executive Director for Strategy Risk and research. Michelle joined Ofqual as Director of Research and Evaluation in 2014. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow, Departm…
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Mike Aldred has significant leadership experience in human resources (HR) and remuneration. He is a founding partner of 3XO , a HR advisory firm. Prior to this he held various HR Director roles for Standard Chartered and Bar…
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Dr Mike Short was Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for International Trade from November 2017 to February 2023. He has over 40 years of experience in the electronics and telecommunications industry, latterly as Vic…
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Mike Walker was appointed Chief Economic Adviser at the Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ) on 11 September 2013. As a member of the Senior Executive Team and a central adviser to the Board, Mike plays an important rol…
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Miles Wagstaff is a consultant paediatrician at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and a member of the South West Clinical Senate. He sits on an expert advisory panel for the National Institute for Health and Car…
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Mina joined Sizewell C in July 2021 and is an Executive Director on the SZC GenCo Board. Between 2008 and 2021, Mina held various positions in Office for Nuclear Regulation including since 2015, as ONR’s Deputy Chief Inspect…
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Neil joined the Ministry of Justice in February 2018 as Chief People Officer. He is responsible for leading all operational and strategic HR services including the prison and probation service. Over the course of his career,…
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Dr Nelson Ogunshakin OBE has over 40 years’ experience in planning, finance, procurement, delivery and management of major property and infrastructure investment projects. He was appointed as the International Federation of …
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Dr Nick Brown is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. He is also Principal of Linacre College, University of Oxford.
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Dr Nicola Byrne is the National Data Guardian for health and adult social care in England, having been appointed to the role in March 2021 by Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Dr Byrne has a 20 yea…
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Nicola joined the UK Space Agency in 2018 as Director of Regulation. She has held a wide range of roles in the civil service, at the Ministry of Defence, Department of Energy and Climate Change, and Department for Communitie…
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Dr Hodson was appointed as a non-executive director at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in November 2024. She was appointed as UK Chief Executive, IBM UK and Ireland in January 2023, where she is respons…
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Nina Cope is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Nina joined the MOD in June 2022. She is responsible for leading integration and modernisation within and across MOD, strengthening functions and e…
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Patricia is a Senior Research Fellow at St. Anne’s College and at the Department of Economics, Oxford University where she had previously been Associate Head of Research and Deputy Head of Department. Previous academic posit…
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Paul has been CEO of the UK Space Agency, an Executive Agency of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), since September 2021. He leads a team of more than 300 who provide the R&D funding to use spa…
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Dr Paul Cross is a consultant cellular pathologist, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead. He has been active in cytology and gynaecological cytology during his career and has contributed to numerous national guid…
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Dr Paul Goldsmith has a breadth of clinical, drug development, digital health and governance experience, whilst also being a serial innovator who has co-founded 4 healthcare businesses. He has extensive experience in frontli…
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Paul Hollinshead joined the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory ( Dstl ) as Chief Executive in February 2022, having led complex large science and technology programmes in the defence and civil sector for more than 20 …
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Dr Paul Leinster joined the Environment Agency (EA) in 1998, he was appointed Chief Executive in June 2008. His previous roles include: Director of Operations, EA Director of Environmental Protection, EA various roles with S…
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Peter Hayes was Director for the Overseas Territories from October 2012 until November 2016. He was concurrently Commissioner for the British Antarctic Territory and Commissioner for the British Indian Ocean Territory. Befor…
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Peter has nearly 40 years management experience including 27 as Chief Executive in three university teaching hospitals and two national organisations including the Commission for Health Improvement. He also served as Notting…
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Peter Knight retired from the position of Vice Chancellor of Birmingham City University in 2007. He read physics at the University of York where his academic interests included astrophysics and the behaviour of semi-conducti…
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Peter served on the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel from June 2018 to November 2021 and was re-appointed to the panel in November 2021. He served until August 2023. Peter is an emeritus professor of child health at …
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Peter Thompson is the Deputy Chief Executive at Dstl. He has spent 20 years in the defence and security sector and has held various roles in the civil service, including strategic advisor to MOD’s Chief Scientific Adviser pr…
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Phil Evans took over as Head of DFID Somalia in April 2014. Phil joined DFID in 1993, having previously worked for the UN and World Bank. He has worked in Africa for many years, including heading DFID ’s country offices in S…
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Dr Phillip Lee was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice in July 2016. He was elected the Member of Parliament for Bracknell in May 2010. Education Phillip was educated at his local stat…
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Dr Pippa Malmgren was a non-executive board member of the Department for International Trade. Dr Malmgren is the founder of DRPM Group, which helps clients better anticipate trends in the world economy. Pippa is also: the co…
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Dr Pui Ling Li was Chief Medical Adviser and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Work and Pensions from December 2014 to 31 July 2017.
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Dr Rachel Glennerster was the Chief Economist at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and a member of the FCDO Executive Committee from September 2020 to July 2021. Prior to her appointment at the FCDO, …
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Dr Raj Patel was the Interim Medical Director of Primary Care for NHS England and NHS Improvement before joining the DDRB. He was previously Medical Director of NHS England for Lancashire and Greater Manchester as well as Di…
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Rajesh Khanna is a consultant in emergency medicine and paediatric emergency medicine, as well as a general practitioner and urgent care lead at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. He is also the regional cli…