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  • Iain Gray joined Innovate UK in 2007. Iain is also a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and in 2007 was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society Gold M…

  • Iain King was appointed Chief Financial Officer at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in December 2022. Before that Iain was Interim Chief Operating Officer at the Department for Education and Director Ge…

  • Mr Iain Lindsay OBE was UK Ambassador to Hungary from 2016 to 2020. He previously held the position of Her Majesty’s Ambassador in Manama from 2011 to 2015. Iain joined the FCDO in 1980 and has spent much of his career in As…

  • Iain is an Independent Member of the Intellectual Property Office Steering Board. He is co-founder and partner of The Maclean Partnership, Iain runs his own consultancy and training service which he helped establish in 1997.…

  • Iain joined the agency in October 2019 as Director of Innovation and Development and is passionate about using innovation to make a difference in organisation performance. He is leading a number of change initiatives where c…

  • Iain joined the agency in October 2019 as Director of Innovation and Development and is passionate about using innovation to make a difference in organisation performance. He is leading a number of change initiatives where c…

  • Iain Osborne was appointed as a Non-Executive Director at Monitor on 19 May 2014. He is also Group Director for regulatory policy at the Civil Aviation Authority, and is an experienced regulatory expert having held senior ro…

  • Iain joined the agency on 3 June 2013 as the Chief Technology Officer. Iain has been seconded from Government Digital Service to lead DVLA’s IT digital transformation. Career Iain’s career to date includes: over 20 years of …

  • Iain Stewart was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Scotland Office between 2 June 2020 and 8 September 2022. He was previously a Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) from December 2019 to June 2020.

  • Iain Walker has been the UK’s High Commissioner to Ghana since August 2017. Before this, he was a Board Member of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in London as a Director of Finance and Strategy. After stud…

  • Iain Walsh was appointed interim Strategy, Policy and Analysis Director General at the Department for Work and Pensions in July 2017.

  • Ian Abbott joined the CNPA Board in July 2012. He is familiar with police governance, having been the Chairman of the Oxfordshire Police Committee and independent member of the Thames Valley Police Authority. Previous securi…

  • Ian joined the UK Space Agency in January 2020 as Deputy CEO for Programme Delivery.  He is responsible for the delivery of all National space programmes across the Agency, including the UK Spaceflight programme. He deputise…

  • Ian Barlow is a Non-Executive Director of Smith & Nephew plc, Foxtons Group plc and The Brunner Investment Trust plc. He is Chairman of The Racecourse Association and a board member of the China British Business Council.…

  • Ian Baulch-Jones became a Non-Executive Director at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in November 2017. Ian has held positions with National Grid, Deutsche Bank, E.ON, MORGAN EST plc, ITNET UK Ltd (now part of the Serc…

  • Ian Benson is the Executive Director for Strategy, Performance and Change where he is responsible for strategic planning, insight, transformation and engagement. He was previously Executive Director for Business Transformati…

  • Ian Blakeman joined HM Prison Service (HMPS) in 1986, and was appointed as Director, Commissioning at the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) in October 2013. His previous roles include: Head of Custodial Commissioni…

  • Ian Cameron Cliff, OBE, took up his appointment as Chargé d’Affaires at the British Embassy in Zagreb in May 2015. He arrived in Croatia from Kosovo, where he had been British Ambassador since March 2011. He started his care…

  • Dr Ian Collard was appointed the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Chief Property & Security Officer in March 2023. Ian’s previous role was the British Ambassador to Lebanon from 2021 to 2022. Ian was a…

  • Ian has 32 years policing experience working in Lancashire and 7 in Merseyside, the last 2 of which were as the deputy chief constable. He is currently working for the College of Policing, National Police Chiefs’ Council, an…

  • Ian Davis was appointed as a Non-Executive Board Member for Cabinet Office on 16 December 2010. He was then the Lead Non-Executive Board Member for the department on 1 February 2015 until 22 March 2016. Ian Davis is the Chai…

  • Ian Doughty is Support Services Director at DECA , holding a first class Manufacturing Engineering Degree and a Master’s Degree in Engineering Business Management. Following a mechanical technician apprenticeship with Worthi…

  • Ian Duddy was most recently Interim Ambassador (Chargé d’Affaires) to Chile (July 2020 to February 2021). Previously he was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Uruguay. Ian joined the Diplomatic Service in 2000 and has carried out a…

  • 2008 - 2011 Conakry, Republic of Guinea: HM Ambassador 2006 - 2008 FCO, Team Leader, South East Asia and Pacific Group 2003 - 2006 FCO, Engaging with the Islamic World, Programme Manager 2000 - 2003 Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Dep…

  • Ian Ferguson was a non-executive board member of the Department for Education between January 2016 and June 2022. He’s also a member of the Education Funding Agency Advisory Group . In 1981 he founded Metaswitch Networks , a…

  • Ian Forber was appointed acting Director General Nuclear at the Ministry of Defence in May 2016. Prior to being appointed, Ian held a number of senior posts at the MOD , including: Director of Strategic Programmes, including…

  • Ian arrived in Minsk in August 2016 to take up his appointment as Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy. Recently, his career has focused on Central and Eastern Europe having worked in Slovakia and Poland. Ian began …

  • Ian has been Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission since 1 April 2019. He became Forestry Commission Director for England and an executive Forestry Commissioner in March 2013. Ian was previously Director of Nati…

  • Ian was Her Majesty’s Consul General to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2016 to 2020. Previously Ian spent over 4 years as Deputy Director of UKTI India - based in New Delhi – with operational responsibility for UKTI’s network of …

  • Ian Hewett was appointed Service Delivery Director on 25 April 2022. His previous roles include: interim Chief Executive, APHA (June 2021 to April 2022) Director of Service Delivery, APHA Deputy Director for the Transformati…

  • Ian was appointed as a non-executive member of the ESFA ARC when the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and Skills Funding Agency (SFA) merged to become the ESFA. Ian spent 15 years of his career at a national level at the Audit…

  • Ian Hughes was the British Ambassador to South Sudan 2013 to 2015. On his appointment, he said: “I am very pleased to have this opportunity to represent the United Kingdom in the UN’s newest member state. I hope to put the U…

  • Ian Johnston is the Executive Director for Operational Services at the Disclosure and Barring Service. Ian became the Director for Operations (Disclosure) at the DBS in June 2014. Ian came to the DBS following a four-year ro…

  • Ian Karet joined the Charity Commission Board in January 2019 and was appointed Interim Chair in February 2021. He is a solicitor and a partner of Linklaters LLP, specialising in Intellectual Property and Technology. Ian sit…

  • Ian Kinder is the Chief Executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills with responsibility for the Commission’s strategy and operations including its Futures Programme and Investors in People business, its internal…

  • Ian King is the lead Non-Executive Director for the Department for Transport and joined HS2 in July 2020. Ian joined Marconi in 1976 as a graduate entrant, working in defence electronics manufacturing. He served as a Finance…

  • Ian began his career in 1986 as an apprentice mechanical engineer with British Alcan at their large rolled products and casting facility in Falkirk, Scotland. On completion of his training, he began to develop one of the UK’…

  • Ian joined Sellafield as an apprentice electrician in 1972 and has held a number of roles with the business including commissioning manager for Thorp, head of decommissioning and led the creation of the Project Assurance Org…

  • Ian McCafferty was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England from 2012 to 2018. Prior to his appointment, he had been Chief Economic Adviser to the CBI since 2001, following a career as an economist in…

  • Ian McKay was appointed as a non-executive director of the SIA in March 2018 to represent the interests of Scotland. He is also Chair of the SIA’s HR and Remuneration Committee. Career Ian was previously the Director of Scot…

  • Ian was appointed as Director of Compliance and Investigations in March 2016, having been seconded to the SSRO from accounting firm BDO as Defence Advisor in October 2014. Ian began his career in the British Army as a logist…

  • Ian Moncrieff CBE was appointed Chief Executive of UK Hydrographic Office in October 2011. He serves on the Board and heads the Executive Committee that manages the Trading Fund. Ian served for 34 years with the Royal Navy a…

  • Ian Muir, holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Science and has over 25 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry working in senior positions for Wyeth, Catalent, Aesica and Famar Pharmaceuticals and most recently as an advis…

  • A career in prisons for over 25 years joining as an officer in 1990.

  • Ian Peters was appointed in April 2021. He has previously held roles as Chair of Barts Health NHS Trust, Chief Executive of British Gas and Managing Director of NatWest Small Business Services. He is currently chairman of se…

  • Ian Playford was appointed as a non-executive member of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service Board in August 2014. Ian is the interim Chief Executive of the Cabinet Office Shadow Government Property Unit, and is the Directo…

  • Ian Porée joined the National Offender Management Service (now HM Prison and Probation Service) in 2007. His previous roles include: Director, Rehabilitation Programme, Ministry of Justice Director, Commissioning and Commerc…

  • Ian Richards succeeded David Ward as British Ambassador to Eritrea in July 2016. Ian Richards has served as a UK diplomat in Shanghai, Beijing, Caracas, and as interim head of post at the UK embassies in Ashgabat, Bamako and…