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Kevin Woodrow is the Director of Corporate Services at the Planning Inspectorate ( PINS ). Prior to joining PINS , Kevin worked in the financial services strategy team in HM Treasury. Before that he was the Finance Director …
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Kieran Drake started as Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Berlin in August 2021. From April 2017 until August 2020 Kieran was Minister Counsellor, Political and Press at the British High Commission in New Delhi. Kieran…
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Kieran Rix joined High Speed Two Limited as Finance and Corporate Services Director in September 2012. Previously, Kieran was Deputy Director for Financial Strategy and Planning at the Department for Transport. He also spent…
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Kim Gould MBE joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1996. She has previously served in Abidjan, Asmara and Dushanbe. Before taking up her job in Pyongyang she had spent two years on Afghanistan-related work in …
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Kim Reuter has been the Development Director to the British Office Sudan (Addis Ababa) since August 2024. Kim joined the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in 2020, having previously worked in international …
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Kim Shillinglaw is a senior media executive. She has led the commercial transformation of businesses as Director of Factual at EndemolShine, modernised TV channels as Controller of BBC2 and BBC4, and initiated content from S…
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Kim Thornden-Edwards is the Chief Probation Officer for England and Wales and a senior leader at Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. Probation employs around 20,000 staff working, in 11 regions and Wales, and include…
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Kimberly Gillingham has been Deputy Head of Mission in Bratislava since January 2016. She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2013 and was previously based in London where she was the Deputy Head of the EU Institut…
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Kimberly Wiehl is a leading finance professional with specialist experience in international export credit. Her experience includes ten years as Secretary-General of the Berne Union, the global association of credit and inve…
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Kirsti Bourret joined the team as Deputy Head of Mission to Finland in July 2020. Prior to her posting in Helsinki, she worked in the Americas Directorate of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. Kirsti has previous…
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Kirstin Baker was appointed a Panel Inquiry Chair and Panel Member Non-Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Board on 1 September 2018. She is also a member of the Audit and Risk Committee. She st…
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Kirstin Gray joined the Government Chemist in 2009. She worked at Leatherhead Food Research Association, before joining LGC, a life sciences research and testing company, in 1999. She has more than 20 years’ experience provi…
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Kirsty has extensive environmental social governance management and sustainability experience across financial services, telecommunications, and technology sectors. She is currently serving as the Director of Sustainable Ban…
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Kirsty Carter-Brown was appointed as Chief Officer Business Management at Natural England on 26 January 2023. Kirsty joined the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the Civil Service in 2003. Her career has f…
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Kirsty Cooper is General Counsel and Company Secretary at Aviva, a member of the Aviva Leadership Team and heads the Office of the Chairman. Kirsty leads the Legal and Secretarial function for Aviva globally. Since her appoi…
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Kirsty Evans has been an ESFA Associate Director since April 2018. Prior to that, Kirsty worked as Deputy Director Funding Policy Implementation for the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), having previously held roles as Director o…
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Full name: Kirsty Isobel Hayes Dates Role 2021 to present Argentina, UK Ambassador 2018 – 2021 Home Office, International Director 2014 – 2018 Lisbon, Her Majesty’s Ambassador 2014 Full-time language training (Portuguese) 20…
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Kirsty McNeill is the Scottish Labour and Co-operative MP for Midlothian and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland. Career before politics Immediately before her election to parliament Kirsty was an Executi…
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Kirsty joined Homes England in September 2022. She is Homes England’s first Chief Operating Officer. She previously held the role of Chief Operating Officer at Care Quality Commission, where she was responsible for a complex…
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Kirsty Whitehead was appointed as a non-executive director at the Intellectual Property Office in September 2024. Kirsty has leadership experience at both Board and Executive team level and has held senior leadership roles a…
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Kobi is the Humanitarian and Development Director for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) leading UK’s international development engagement in South Sudan. Prior to South Sudan, Kobi was the Developmen…
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Kris Hopkins was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office on 17 July 2016. He was elected Conservative MP for Keighley in West Yorkshire in May 2010. Education Kris has a degree in comm…
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Kris Krasnowski joined the Office for the Secretary of State for Scotland in July 2021 and is the Deputy Director for policy and delivery, including leading work on Region Deals. Prior to this he spent 5 years as a Deputy Di…
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Kru Desai’s career spans 30 years as a management consultant working with public and private sector organisations in the UK and internationally. Her executive experience combines general management in growing professional an…
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Kumar Iyer was the Director General, Economics, Science and Technology at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) until November 2023. He had been a Director General at the FCDO since its formation in 2020.…
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Kunal Khatri was His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for North America, based at the British Consulate General in New York City, from January 2024 until April 2024. Prior to this, he spent five years at the British Embassy Beij…
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Kunle Olulode is a co-opted member of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. He will attend meetings relevant to his work on the Windrush Working Group. He is the director at Voice4Change England, a BAME (Black, Asia…
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Lady Eithne Birt began her career in probation with the Greater Manchester Probation Service in 1979. She was promoted to roles at the Cambridgeshire, Inner London and Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Probation Services, be…
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Dame Julia Macur was called to the Bar in 1979, and was a practicing barrister in the Midland and Oxford Circuit between 1979 and 2005. In 1998 she was appointed Queen’s Counsel, and was Assistant Recorder and then Recorder …
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Dame Kate Thirlwall was called to the Bar in 1982 and appointed as an assistant recorder in 1998 and a recorder in 2000. She took Silk in 1999 and became a Bencher of Middle Temple in 2008. She was appointed as a High Court …
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Lakh was appointed non-executive director of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service Board in July 2018. Lakh is an experienced CEO, Chair and NED, having spent over 30 years leading technology businesses in Europe, South Amer…
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Larissa Bruscky is the current Director for Government Relations and Trade at the British Consulate in Recife, appointed in April 2024 by the British Ambassador in Brazil, Stephanie Al-Qaq. She had occupied the position on a…
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Larissa Joy OBE was appointed as a non-executive director of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in July 2023. Larissa is a non-executive director of search firm Saxton Bampfylde; Chairman of the trust board o…
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Lars Lippuner joined the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s (MCA) UK Customer Maritime Services directorate in 2024. Before joining the MCA, Lars was Associate Professor of Maritime Education and served as the Director of Wars…
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Laura joined the BDUK Commercial Function in 2019, becoming BDUK Commercial Director in 2021. Prior to that, Laura joined Cabinet Office Commercial in 2018 and the Government Commercial Organisation shortly after, looking at…
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Following the completion of the statutory audit services market investigation, of which Laura was the Chair, her appointment term ended on 26 September 2014. The information provided below is accurate for Laura’s term of app…
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Ms Laura Clarke was the British High Commissioner to New Zealand, and Governor of the Pitcairn Islands from January 2018 to July 2022. Prior to this, she was Head of the South Asia Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth …
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Laura Cox is currently a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. She is also a member of the Law Society (England and Wales), and the American Bar Association.
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Laura Crawforth took up the post of Deputy Director Constitutional Policy and further devolution in September 2014. Prior to that Laura held a number of posts in the Scotland Office from 2006: working with the Calman Commiss…
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Laura Davies was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Finland in December 2023. Laura was previously the UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (…
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Laura Farris was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice between 13 November 2023 and 5 July 2024.
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Laura Mazal is Development Director at the British Embassy in Kinshasa, ensuring strategic oversight of the UK’s development and humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Prior to this, Laura headed …
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Laura Wensley is the Head of Service Development and Central Commissioning and joined the Legal Aid Agency in June 2013. Change portfolio manager, HMCTS Project manager, civil courts call centre, HMCTS Financial planning man…
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Laure Beaufils is currently the British Ambassador to the Philippines and Palau. She was the Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa of the Department of International Development from 2019 to 2021 and the Deput…
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Lauren Costello has over 30 years’ experience in the education sector, specialising in strategy development and school improvement. She began her career as a teacher, proceeding to headteacher positions, before co-founding T…
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Laurence Lee was the Second Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Laurence joined the MOD in June 2021. As Second Permanent Secretary his responsibilities included digital transformation across Defence, secur…
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Laurence Lewis was appointed as Deputy Director of Digital at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) in December 2013. Previously he has held senior roles at: Ministry of Defence HM Revenue and Customs Department for Transport Thomas Co…