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  • Mark has extensive experience of working across the public and private sectors including in industry, national and regional voluntary organisations, further and higher education, economic development bodies and academia, man…

  • Mark Pennifold is a retired senior Human Resources professional.  As a former HR Director and Chief People Officer, he successfully led (a) sourcing & investment, (b) pay and (c) pension consultation negotiations at the …

  • Mark devoted over 40 years to public service. Most of his career was in policing and he retired as Chief Constable of North Wales Police in 2018 following 9 years in the role. He discharged a number of national responsibilit…

  • Mark joined the Diplomatic Service in 2009 having previously worked as a journalist for ITN, primarily as a Producer on Channel 4 News. In London he worked in the FCO’s National Security Directorate, Americas Directorate and…

  • Mark Prisk was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government in September 2012. Mark was elected Conservative MP for Hertford and Stortford in June 2001. Education He was educated at Trur…

  • Mark Rakestraw was the Acting Consul General in St Petersburg from May to September 2017. Since October 2014, he has been Director of Corporate Services and Her Majesty’s Consul General at the British Embassy in Moscow. He o…

  • Mark Rawlinson joined the Ministry of Justice as a Lead Non-Executive Board Member on 4 June 2018. His term of office following reappointment concludes on 3 March 2025. Mark has over 30 years of commercial experience as an a…

  • Mark Revell took up the appointment of Deputy Chief Executive in 2010 and has worked in the Ministry of Defence for some 20 years. His previous roles include: political advisor and Chief CivMil Branch in Regional Command HQ …

  • Mark is the Head of Office for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in Zambia. Mark has been based at the British High Commission in Lusaka since September 2017. Mark joined DFID in 2005 and has held a nu…

  • Mark has extensive experience in governance, risk management and internal audit across central government departments and private sector organisations. Throughout his career, he has embedded the highest standards and driven …

  • Mark Robson was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. He is also Head of Statistics and Regulatory Data at the Bank of England.

  • Mark graduated from Coventry University with an honours degree in Control Systems Engineering and joined VSEL shipbuilders in 1987 as a graduate apprentice, working on a range of nuclear submarine build programmes during the…

  • Mark is Chair of DE&S, the procurement organisation of the Ministry of Defence, Senior Adviser at UKGI and Chair of Angel Trains. Mark Russell was appointed Chair of DE&S and Vice Chair of UKGI in November 2019 havin…

  • Mark Sautereau OBE was Transformation Director and Interim Chief Technology Officer of the UK Hydrographic Office between October 2022 and April 2024. Mark is a delivery and digital transformation specialist, who started his…

  • Mark Simmonds was the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Minister for Asia and the Pacific from 5 September 2012 to August 2014. He was the elected Conservative MP for Boston and…

  • Mark is proud to be the Chief Executive of P3 Charity; he has more than 25 years’ experience in the Charity sector. Under his leadership, P3 has expanded its services to reach more people in need, providing them with shelter…

  • Mark Slaughter was Director General for Investment at the Department for International Trade from 2018 to 2020. Previously he held the Head of Corporate and Investment Banking position at Citigroup for the Asia Pacific regio…

  • Mark Southgate was the Director of Major Applications and Plans at the Inspectorate. He is a chartered town planner with over 20 years’ experience in local government, non-governmental organisations and government agencies a…

  • Mark started his Civil Service career in the Public Trust Office in 1987 before moving to working in courts and tribunals in 1990, where he has undertaken a wide variety of leadership, project/programme management and estate…

  • Mark has been Director General, Cabinet Secretariat in the Cabinet Office since November 4 2019, responsible for advising the Prime Minister and Cabinet on domestic policy issues and the government’s legislative programme. H…

  • Mark Taylor works as a management consultant and coach to the NHS. He previously worked in a range of senior leadership roles in the NHS for over 30 years, including roles as a primary care trust chief executive and chief of…

  • Mark Thompson is the Director of Platforms, Data and Interoperability, a specialist Digital, Data and Technology unit within Cabinet Office Government People Group. He is leading on developing innovative ways to modernise th…

  • Mark Thomson was appointed Director General, HM Passport Office in April 2015 and Director General, UK Visas and Immigration in October 2016. On 24 August 2015, Mark also became Registrar General for England and Wales. Befor…

  • As the CEO of High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd, Mark has the privilege and ultimate responsibility for leading the company that has been charged with delivering a new high-speed railway that will connect the major cities of the UK. …

  • Mark Tompkins has been Deputy Director of the UK Co-ordinating Body since 2006, having joined UKCB in 1998. Mark previously dealt with various policies for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) and the Inter…

  • Mark was appointed non-executive board member at Natural England on 24 May 2024. Mark Tufnell is a former President of the Country Land and Business Association. He manages and owns a family farm in the Cotswolds. Previously…

  • The Head of the Governor’s Office is Mark Turner who has 38 years service with the FCO. He is responsible for the efficient and accountable running of the office, leads on issues of law and order and legal issues as well as …

  • A highly commercial legal expert, with extensive international experience across sectors and a track record of delivering legal, governance and compliance across complex organisations. Mark is a Member of the Upper Tribunal …

  • Marshall Elliott was Head of DFID Tanzania from 2011 to 2015. He joined DFID in 1995, initially as a senior education adviser and subsequently chief education adviser before becoming Head of DFID South East Asia (2004-2007),…

  • Marta was appointed as a non-executive member in September 2014. She chairs the SSRO’s Audit Committee and is a member of the Regulatory Committee. She also serves on the Referrals Committee. She holds a number of other non-…

  • Martha joined the Legal Aid Agency in July 2023 as Deputy Director responsible for Corporate Services.    Martha joined the Legal Aid Agency from HM Prisons & Probation Service where she had established and led the strat…

  • Martin was appointed HR Director at the National Offender Management Service (now HMPPS) in May 2016. His previous roles include: Corporate HR Director, Home Office Deputy Director of HR, National Offender Management Service…

  • Martin Child was the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy to Guinea in Conakry from August 2016 to August 2019.

  • Martin has a strong commercial background in the public and private sectors. His experience stems from roles within the Cabinet Office and Balfour Beatty. He’s also held senior roles with GlaxoSmithKline, Toyota and Varity P…

  • Martin Clarke has been the Government Actuary since September 2014. He is the scheme actuary for the pension schemes of public institutions including NHS, the armed forces and MPs and is responsible for producing the quinque…

  • Martin was appointed Panel Chair and Panel Inquiry Chair of the CMA on 19 September 2018 and has been a Non-executive Director of the Board since 1 October 2017. He is also a member of the Remuneration Committee. Martin was …

  • Martin Cox was appointed as Director of Strategy and Technology on 1 May 2013. He is a theoretical physicist who joined Culham upon graduating, working on plasma modelling. He then became involved in the operation of the exp…

  • Martin has been a career Civil Servant since leaving college. For 30 years he has focused on International Development working for the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has …

  • Martin was Her Majesty’s Consul-General in Ekaterinburg 2015 to 2018. He is a career diplomat, who has undertaken a range of jobs in the UK and around the world including: 2012 British Embassy Ashgabat, Deputy Head of Missio…

  • BA Hons (Geography) from Durham University. Held senior General Management and Human Resources positions in the Post Office before joining Corporate Renewal Associates (a strategic change management consultancy). Moved to be…

  • Martin Hagen is a non-executive board member and chair of the audit committee. Martin is a Chartered Accountant, formerly a partner in Deloitte and served as president of the ICAEW from 2009 to 2010. He is currently a truste…

  • Martin Harris was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Ukraine and started in his role in September 2023. Martin joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1991. He was Second Secretary at the UK Delegation to th…

  • Martin has over 30 years of experience in policing and crisis management, having served with distinction in both the British Army and UK law enforcement, including four years as chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (…

  • Martin is currently Chairman of East Midlands Academic Health Science Network and a Non-Executive Director of Public Health England. He is a member of the council of Leicester University and the International Advisory Board …

  • Martin Kent was appointed His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner (HMTC) for Asia Pacific in September 2023. He joined from an interim posting as the Minister and Deputy Head of Mission in the British Embassy Tokyo. Martin previous…

  • Martin has held numerous operational roles within Sellafield over a 17 year period, including several heads of operating unit positions, heads of programme roles and value stream lead roles.

  • Martin McCluskey was appointed Assistant Whip, House of Commons on 18 July 2024. He was elected as the MP for Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West in July 2024.