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  • John Carter, Planning and Performance Director for the Rural Payments Agency, joined the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) in July 2011.

  • John Casson was the British Ambassador to Egypt from August 2014 until August 2018. Previously he was the Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Private Secretary from 2010 to 2014. He received a CMG in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday H…

  • John was appointed as chair of Companies House from 1 March 2023. He is a recognised leader in strategy, innovation and delivering large-scale digital-enabled transformations, global business services, digital, data, analyti…

  • John held the position of CEO and Accounting Officer from April 2012 to February 2017, having joined the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s Board in 2008 initially as Commercial Director and subsequently as Business Plannin…

  • John Coffey was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in September 2020. John has 4 decades’ experience in the financial services sector. This includes 7 years as Executi…

  • John has been an integral part of our Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme since 2016. Before joining the programme, John was in the Royal Navy with a 30 year nuclear engineering career as a submariner.  In his last …

  • John worked in a variety of strategic and operational roles in the Environment Agency, including: Chief Executive Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management Director of Incident Management and Resilience Area Di…

  • John Davie has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Asunción since June 2020. Prior to this, John worked in a joint FCO and Home Office unit focusing on international counter terrorism, after having served i…

  • John Dennis is Representative at the British Office in Taipei. He was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Angola from February 2014 until February 2018. John joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (formerly Foreig…

  • John Denore has been with the Independent Living Fund as Director and Head of Operations since 2005. John has spent 23 years in operations. His previous roles include: Programme Manager and Regional Manager for the Big Lotte…

  • John Derrick is Deputy Director Americas and Africa, Bilateral Trade Relations, in the Department for Business and Trade ( DBT ). John is on loan to DBT from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office ( FCDO ). His las…

  • John Doddrell was Her Majesty’s Consul General in Sao Paulo and Director for UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) in Brazil from 2010 to 2014. Previously as Director of Strategy at UKTI he developed an ambitious new strategy tha…

  • John Dowie was appointed Acting Director General of Roads, Traffic and Local Group at the Department for Transport from May 2015. Career John joined the civil service in 1989 and in addition to working at the Department for …

  • John Drake is Chief Commercial Counsel for Bird and Bird LLP, where he is in charge of several change programmes, having been Chief Operating Officer for 7 years until 2015. A qualified barrister, most of John’s career was i…

  • John Duncan was appointed Governor of the British Virgin Islands in June 2013 and took up his post in August 2014. Previously, he was sworn in as Acting Governor of the Falkland Islands on February 27 for a period of approxi…

  • John Edwards was appointed Director General to Regions Group of the Department for Education on 13 June 2022. John has previously held senior posts both within government and in the local government sector. He began his care…

  • John was one of 9 Trade Commissioners appointed by the British government to promote the UK in important global markets. As the head of the Department for Business and Trade in China, John was in charge of all bilateral trad…

  • John’s previous roles include: Head, Procurement, Olympic Delivery Authority management consultant, Mouchel various positions at Crown Agents

  • John Fitzpatrick is the Digital Operations Director for the Government Digital Service (GDS), and was appointed in October 2024 on an interim basis. The Digital Operations Director looks after the day-to-day operations that …

  • Mr John Gallagher was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia in April 2021. Curriculum Vitae Dates Role 2021 to present Yerevan, Ambassador 2019 to 2021 Buenos Aires, Deputy Head of Mission 2015 to 201…

  • John Glennie was the NHS Borders Chief Executive 2003-2009. He was Chief Executive of Borders General Hospital NHS Trust from 1995-2003, and before that Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance of Central Manchester He…

  • John’s move into the nuclear industry came 17 years ago, after graduating with a degree in Chemistry and spending the opening five years of his career as an analytical chemist. Following his career switch he first moved into…

  • John Grierson began his nuclear industry career as an apprentice electrician for British Nuclear Group at Chapelcross, where he would later become site director. Through his career, which has spanned almost four decades to d…

  • John Hamilton was recently appointed Resident British Commissioner at the British High Commission in St John’s. Before St John’s he worked at the British Embassy in Turkmenistan as the Deputy Head of Mission.  John has spent…

  • John Hannett became a Low Pay Commissioner on 1 May 2007 and was reappointed for 4 years on 1 January 2011. He is General Secretary of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and a member of ACAS. John also sits o…

  • John Harley (appointed in 2013) is a former Senior Partner at Ernst & Young LLP (EY) and up to June 2000, PricewaterhouseCoopers. He retired in February 2011 from EY having been Global Head of Private Equity and previous…

  • John Henderson was the Chief Executive of Staffordshire County Council for over eight years, during which time he worked to improve the delivery of public services for the county’s residents.   Prior to this, he served for 3…

  • John Humphrey is His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa. He was appointed in June 2022. Prior to joining the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), John was the Group Chief Executive Officer of Kent HoldCo Limited (KH…

  • John Ingham has been a Deputy Official Solicitor since September 2012 and a senior lawyer since 2006 in the Official Solicitor’s civil litigation team. His previous roles include: working in private practice (15 years) worki…

  • John Kennedy is the interim Regional Director for London and took on this role in June 2015. John was appointed His Majesty’s Inspector (HMI) in 2006 and has been a Senior HMI in the London region since January 2013 and befo…

  • John Kirkland was a non-executive member of the Department for Transport Board from 10 June 2013 to 17 June 2016. John is Chairman of the Bowmer and Kirkland Group of Companies, one of the largest privately owned constructio…

  • John is jointly responsible for leading multidisciplinary teams delivering trade remedies investigation within TRID. He started his career as a civil servant doing a variety of policy, private office, operational, strategy a…

  • John was Director of Overseas Territories at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) from December 2016 until June 2017. In that role, he was Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory and Commissioner of the Brit…

  • John Krumins (appointed in 2013) is a banker with over 20 years’ experience in mergers and acquisitions in domestic and international markets. He has also worked extensively on capital raising and restructuring, in both the …

  • John was appointed as a member of the School Teachers’ Review Body in 2017 and the Audit and Risk Committee of the Education and Skills Funding Agency in 2018. In 2023 John was made a member of the ESFA Management Board. His…

  • John Lamont was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland from 27 October 2022 to 5 July 2024.

  • John joined HMCTS as Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) in March 2020. Previously, he was interim CIO for the Government of Jersey overseeing the development of a £100m digital transformation programme. He has work…

  • John Leyland was appointed Executive Director for Environment and Business at the Environment Agency (EA) on 17 October 2022. He was previously Chief of Staff at the EA from 2016 to 2022. Before that he was Area Manager for …

  • John Lindfield took up his position as British High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Eswatini in July 2019. Before taking up his new position John oversaw business operations throughout Russia for the Department for Internatio…

  • John is an experienced financial services regulatory professional, with over 30 years experience of working in the sector. He also brings considerable experience of audit and risk and is currently a non-executive director at…

  • John Longworth is a businessman and entrepreneur. He was originally a scientist and spent most of his career in consumer goods and food corporates doing business in the UK and around the globe. He co-founded a science-tech b…

  • John Mahon was the Director General for Exports in the Department for International Trade from April 2018 to July 2020. John spent over 30 years in banking, working for JP Morgan and Barclays. He has worked in a variety of s…

  • John Manzoni served as Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office from August 2015 to April 2020. He served as Chief Executive of the Civil Service from October 2014 to April 2020. He joined the Cabinet Office in February 20…

  • John Marshall is the British Ambassador to Guinea. He took up his appointment in March 2023. Prior to this he was Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg since presenting his credentials to HRH Gr…

  • John Matheson was Director of Finance for the NHS in Scotland from 2008 until his retiral in 2016 with specific responsibility for ehealth and analytics. Prior to that he was the Director of Finance at NHS Lothian. He studie…

  • John McGlynn was appointed Universal Credit Programme Board Chair on 5 August 2021. John is a Director for Atkins, a member of the SNC Lavalin Group, one of the world’s leading engineering, design and project management orga…

  • Born in Essex, John Mitchell joined the UK Diplomatic Service in 1996 having previously served in the British Army. Before his first posting overseas as Third Secretary at the British Embassy Skopje (2000 to 2003), John work…

  • John Montague was appointed as the SIA’s Acting Director of Inspections and Enforcement in October 2020. Career John originally joined the SIA in January 2004 as a regional Head of Investigations in the north west of England…