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  • Glenn Houston has been a Non-Executive Director of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Board since January 2017. Glenn has 38 years experience of working in health and social care in Northern Ireland. He is a qualified …

  • Glenn was appointed Deputy Director (Home, Social & Domestic Affairs) of the Scotland Office, in July 2013. Prior to joining the Scotland Office, Glenn worked most recently as the Deputy Director for Information Rights a…

  • Gleny Lovell was Chief Officer Business Management and Change from February 2019 to January 2023. Gleny has spent most of her career in the private sector mainly in large scale change programme leadership and management cons…

  • Glyn has worked for more than 35 years in tax and is a chartered accountant as well as a chartered tax adviser. He held Head of Tax roles at 4 UK-quoted FTSE companies. He has been active as a volunteer at the Chartered Inst…

  • A career civil servant, Glynne Jones has worked alongside Ministers for almost 20 years. He has been the Director of the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales since January 2013, helping deliver some of the milestones i…

  • Goran was appointed Deputy High Commissioner to Mauritius in January 2024. Goran began his career with the British government in 1999. He initially worked at the Department of Trade and Industry, followed by HM Treasury in a…

  • Gordon Frisby is an accomplished global Finance Director with more than 25 years’ experience at senior management level. His career started at BDO Binder before moving to Black & Decker Corporation in Germany and Switzer…

  • Gordon More is Interim Chief Executive Officer for Homes England. He was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer in February 2021. Gordon joined Homes England in May 2014 and previously worked as Head of Investments on …

  • Gordon joined Homes England in May 2014 as Head of Investments (on secondment from Lloyds Banking Group) before taking on the permanent role of Chief Investment Officer in 2017. Before this, he was Managing Director of the B…

  • Gordon had an extensive career in banking in the UK and the USA before joining UK Export Finance. Gordon also spent three years with Airbus in its customer sales financing team before taking a year’s secondment to work with …

  • Graeme joined the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) in 2023 from the Security Industry Authority. Before that he worked in a number of sectors including central government, local government, the third sector and private …

  • Graeme first joined the MHRA in 2011 and has spent much of his time at the MHRA negotiating, and now implementing, a package of measures to strengthen the regulation of medical devices. Graeme has been a civil servant for 15…

  • Graeme Wilkinson is currently the Finance Director in the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Graeme specialises in change management projects and …

  • Graham Archer served as Interim Director General at the Department for Education from November 2022 to October 2023. He was in charge of Families Group from May to October 2023, and Strategy Group from November 2022 to May 2…

  • Graham has more than 20 years’ experience within the MOD working in Dstl and its predecessor organisations where he has held a variety of technical and leadership roles. Prior to taking up this role he spent over 5 years as …

  • Graham Dalton became Chief Executive of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation in October 2016, following eight years as Chief Executive of Highways England and its predecessor, the Highways Agency. Graham is a chartered ci…

  • Graham Farrant was Chief Executive and Chief Land Registrar from 1 June 2015 to 31 December 2018. Graham has considerable experience in both the private and public sectors, most recently as Chief Executive of Thurrock Counci…

  • Graham is Director of Planning and Development at Active Travel England. He joined the agency in November 2022. Formerly Assistant Director for Transport at Newcastle City Council, Graham has 15 years’ experience working in …

  • Graham Horne joined the Insolvency Service in 1976. He has led the service as Interim Chief Executive twice and was pivotal in introducing new electronic ways of working to enhance efficiency. His previous roles within the I…

  • Graham Hutchins joined Innovate UK in 2007. His previous roles include: Commercial Director at FirstPoint Healthcare Ltd Senior Finance Manager at Vodafone Finance Controller at FedEx

  • Graham Jagger is an independent consultant experienced in representing the public and patient perspectives on healthcare services, including as a director of Healthwatch for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. He served as a me…

  • Graham Jagger is a graduate HR professional with more than 35 years management and consultancy experience in both public and private sector organisations in the UK and overseas, the last 18 years of which have been in the he…

  • Graham Jessup became the Deputy Head of Mission to the Dominican Republic in July 2022. He joined the UK Diplomatic Service in 2003 and has served in South Africa, the Balkans and Bahrain leading on political and economic bi…

  • Graham McNulty QPM joined the SFO on 16 September 2024 and has extensive experience in combatting fraud and economic crime. He spent seven years working on the Metropolitan Police Service’s Economic Crime Command before lead…

  • 2007 - Graham was appointed to create the Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO) as a government agency tasked with implementing the ideas put forward in the Hampton Report. 2011 - In the Birthday Honours, Graham was awarded …

  • Graham Sharp (appointed in 2013) is a Commissioner of the Gambling Commission and a member of the Accounts Commission for Scotland. He worked in the City for many years as a corporate financier where he was on the Board of S…

  • Graham joined the VOA in May 1980. Graham is interim Director DVS and a qualified Chartered Surveyor. Previous roles include: Head of Health Sector Valuations; Head of Professional Guidance Team

  • Graham is a Chartered Planner with twenty years’ experience of planning in local government in district and unitary councils and nine years’ experience as a charity trustee, including chairing a trustee board. He brings with…

  • Graham Styles has been the British Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea since September 2011. Graham is a career diplomat, who has held a range of appointments, including postings to Vienna, Paris and Mauritius. Graham has a…

  • Graham Tidey is the current British Consul in Recife, appointed on 2 December 2015, by the former British Ambassador in Brazil, Alex Ellis. Previously, he worked as the UK Trade and Investment Manager for the North and North…

  • Graham Williams became a Non-Executive Board Member and Chair of the Defence Audit Committee in 2012. Graham has over 30 years’ experience in professional services with accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has worked …

  • Mr Graham Zebedee was UK Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 2015 to 2017. Mr Zebedee joined the FCO in 1999. His career has covered a wide range of roles, including working on Africa, Afghanistan, EU, …

  • Grahame Smith was appointed as the STUC’s Deputy General Secretary in 1996. In that role he headed the STUC’s policy and campaigns department and had specific responsibility for the STUC’s work on lifelong learning and publi…

  • Greg Dorey was appointed British Ambassador to Ethiopia and Djibouti (non-resident) and Permanent Representative to the African Union and UN Economic Commission for Africa in 2010. Most recently he has been serving as Britis…

  • Greg Fell is the Director of Public Health in Sheffield. He graduated from Nottingham University with a degree in biochemistry and physiology in 1993. He has worked as a social researcher in a maternity unit and in a number …

  • Greg Houston was Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Bogota from February 2018 to April 2020. He was previously Political Counsellor in Rome and has spent much of his career working on European Union related iss…

  • Greg Quinn took up his position as Acting British Consul General Calgary in April 2023 having previously served as the Acting British Consul General Toronto. Prior to that he was Deputy Head of the Caribbean and SIDS Departm…

  • Gregor O’Gorman was appointed Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy Banjul in October 2014. He is a New Zealander who studied at Massey University and upon graduating spent several years working in the areas of child…

  • Current Grenville is Non-Executive Chairman of Watkin Jones Plc and Chairman of Titlestone Ltd and of Bellpenny Ltd. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Zoopla Property Group and Vice-Chairman of the English National Ball…

  • Group Captain Brown commissioned into the RAF in 1994 from Liverpool University. Starting with a posting to Northern Ireland he subsequently served on Tactical Supply Wing, in the Falkland Islands and at RAF Northolt. These …

  • Group Captain Houghton joined the Royal Air Force in 1984. Following navigator training, David completed his first operational tour at RAF Lyneham flying C-130K aircraft. After a short tour as a simulator and ground school i…

  • Group Captain Simon Blake joined the Royal Air Force in March 1981. Following Fast Jet pilot training, he flew Canberras, followed by a posting as a Qualified Flying Instructor at No 4 Flying Training School, RAF Valley. He …

  • Gunther Newcombe OBE was Director, Exploration, Production and Decommissioning at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) from 2015 to 2020. Gunther joined the OGA from Indonesia where he was President and CEO of VICO, a joint ventu…

  • Gurdip became the Interim Finance Director in October 2013. He joined the public sector in 2009, leading on delivering “financial transformation” within Defra. Prior to that, he worked extensively within the energy sector. D…

  • Gurpreet has pursued a portfolio career since 2014, with non executive roles in Higher Education, multi-academy trusts, financial services (including advising government on access to dormant assets), infrastructure and an NH…

  • Gus Jaspert has been the Director General for Delivery Group in the Home Office since August 2021. Gus is responsible for strategy, transformation, risk and delivery in the Home Office. Gus’s previous career has been spent i…

  • Guto Bebb was Minister for Defence Procurement at the Ministry of Defence from 9 January 2018 to 16 July 2018. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Wales Office and a Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM …

  • Guy Beringer is the non-executive chairman of the UKEF Board. He was appointed in January 2010. Guy is Chairman of The Legal Education Foundation and City Music Services. He is a Director of BCKR, an Adjunct Professor at the…