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  • Michael Whitehouse is a qualified accountant and auditor with over 30 years’ experience as an external auditor of central government on behalf of Parliament. For 15 years he was an Executive Board Member of the National Audi…

  • Mike was the Director of Trade & Investment at the British Embassy Manila from 2015 to 2018. Mike had been a British diplomat for over 30 years. He specialised in trade, investment and economic work. His previous oversea…

  • Michelle Crotty was appointed Deputy Legal Secretary and Head of Operations, Attorney General’s Office in 2015. Education Michelle qualified as a solicitor in 1999. Career After 8 years in private criminal practice, Michelle…

  • As Director for Communications and External Affairs, Michelle is responsible for the communications and engagement strategy to build and maintain our corporate reputation and help to make Trade Remedies Authority known, unde…

  • Michelle Dyson was appointed as Director General for Adult Social Care in May 2021. Her previous roles include: Director of Qualification, Curriculum and Extra Curricular in the Department for Education Director of Early Yea…

  • Michelle brings over 25 years of board experience in the Maritime, Aviation, Rail and Financial Services sectors, both nationally and internationally. She is currently the regional managing director of Wales and Western-Netw…

  • Michelle is an experienced business manager with a career spanning 20 years in the nuclear industry, holding senior positions within BNFL, Springfields Fuels Ltd and Toshiba Westinghouse. She has a range of operational, radi…

  • Michelle took up the role of Executive Director Public Sector Prisons South, in HM Prison and Probation Service in April 2019.

  • Michelle Reynolds became Strategy, Planning and Innovation Director at the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) on 3 January 2023.

  • Michelle was appointed as our Chief Executive in October 2020. She has over 25 years of experience working in regulation and regulatory environments in both the public and private sectors. Before becoming Chief Executive, Mi…

  • Michelle Thorp is currently the Global Transformation Managing Director at UK Trade and Investment (UKTI). Michelle Thorp has 15 years’ experience in the Civil Service. After stints in international, european and domestic ju…

  • Michelle joined Companies House in March 2018 as Director of Finance and Commercial. Her passion is equality, diversity and inclusion, and she is the executive champion. Michelle is a chartered management accountant with ove…

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  • Michelle Wilson became interim Director of Service Delivery at the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) as a job-share in October 2022, along side Michelle Reynolds and Nicola Hirst .

  • Michelle joined BDUK in September 2020 as Deputy Director for Transformation and Change having had a diverse career across multiple industries including telecoms, housing and automotive prior to joining the Civil Service. Mi…

  • Michiel Veldhuizen was the DBT Country Director in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2021.

  • Mick became Director of Delivery for the MHRA in September 2022.

  • Mick joined UKAEA in 2001 as a project manager. He has since delivered technical and project solutions to Rolls Royce, the Ministry of Defence Submarine Capability and AECL Chalk River in Canada, before returning to Dounreay…

  • Mick is Director of Special Projects at the Regulator of Social Housing

  • Mickola was appointed as a Non-Executive Director (NED) at the Government Property Agency (GPA) in April 2018. Mickola is a non-executive member for the GPA Board, and also chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. Mickola is joi…

  • Mike Anderson is the Director General of the Strategy, Immigration and International Group at the Home Office. His career history includes: Director General for green economy and corporate services at the Department for Envi…

  • Michael retired as the Partner and the Head of Quality and Risk Management of KPMG Europe LLP in September 2013, having spent about 35 years with the firm and its predecessor firm, Peat Marwick. He is a Fellow of the Institu…

  • Mike Astell is the Chief Executive Officer of FCDO Services, appointed in September 2021. Mike has over 25 years of leadership experience, developing businesses providing infrastructure and services in complex, international…

  • Mike Baker was acting Chief Operating Officer of the Ministry of Defence ( MOD ). Mike supported both the Permanent Secretary and Second Permanent Secretary across a wide range of their responsibilities. He was also responsi…

  • Mike Boyall was appointed to the Independent Living Fund’s board of trustees in March 2005. He is also the treasurer of the board of trustees and chairperson of the audit committee. Mike is an ombudsman at the Financial Ombu…

  • Mike Bracken CBE is a global digital leader who has led wholesale transformations of large institutions in the private and public sector. He helps organisations change their way of working and solve systemic market, societal…

  • Mike Brooks became a Non Executive Director at DVLA in October 2009. Education Mike has an MSc in Accounting and Finance (1987) from the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Acc…

  • Michael Calloway joined the CNPA Board in July 2018. He is the Head of Programme at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ( NDA ), leading the team responsible for providing assurance and oversight of third party nuclear ope…

  • Mike Cornelius became Director of Village and Commercial at the Olympic Delivery Authority ( ODA ) on 1 April 2013. He joined the ODA as Head of Procurement and Commercial in November 2008 and became Director of Commercial a…

  • Mr Mike Cowin joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1988. He is a member of the FCO Research Cadre, covering Korea and Japan, and has previously served in Tokyo and Seoul. Before taking up his job in Pyongyan…

  • Mike joined the Department of Health & Social Security in 1979 straight from school, and spent his first 6 years in the Civil Service delivering services to customers. He then moved into regional management and thereafte…

  • Mike Falvey is responsible for the effective and efficient running of the HR Community in HM Revenue & Customs. He has overall accountability for people management capability and deployment across HMRC, and oversees the …

  • Mike moved into the public sector in September 2015 when he was appointed Chief Technology Officer for the Intellectual Property Office (IPO). Since then, he has led a transformation of IT at the IPO and has been instrumenta…

  • Mike Freer was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice between 20 September 2022 and 5 July 2024. He was Minister for Exports and Minister for Equalities between September 2021 and 6 July 2022. He …

  • Mike Green was the Chief Operating Officer of the Department for Education and Director General of the Operations Directorate between 2012 and 2022. His previous roles included: Director of Commercial, DfE Departmental lead …

  • A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a graduate of the London School of Economics, Mike qualified as a chartered accountant with what is now KPMG and spent 11 years with the audit pract…

  • Mike Griffiths joined the Civil Nuclear Constabulary in October 2012 as the CNC ’s Chief Constable / Chief Executive Officer. He began his career as a soldier, commissioned into the King’s Own Royal Border Regiment in 1979 a…

  • Mike Hammond has been Head of DFID Southern Africa since May 2014. He has extensive experience working on international development for DFID he has headed 4 Africa Country offices (Uganda, Ghana, Rwanda and Zambia) as well a…

  • Mike joined HM Land Registry as General Counsel and Deputy Chief Land Registrar in February 2018 and took the role of Acting Chief Executive and Chief Land Registrar from 1 January 2019 until 11 November 2019. Mike graduated…

  • Mike Kane was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport on 9 July 2024. He was elected as the MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East in July 2024.

  • Mike Keoghan was Acting Director General for Business Sectors at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ( BEIS ) from 21 September 2020 to 30 July 2021. Mike is also BEIS ’s Chief Economic Adviser.

  • Mike Lyons is the Delivery Director Civils for Phase One. Mike has worked in both the public and private sectors on some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects specialising in the Transport Sector. He joined HS2 in 2014…

  • Mike McMahon was appointed as the Independent Adjudicator for the Adjudicator’s Office in October 2023. Mike was in post as the Adjudicator’s Office Head of Office from September 2020. Prior to this, he worked for the Financ…

  • Mike joined Companies House as Chief Accountant in April 2000 and was Finance Director between July 2008 and March 2012.. He has responsibility for providing the lead on financial performance and planning, and for financial …

  • Mr Michael Nithavrianakis was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia, and took up his appointment in May 2023. Mr Nithavrianakis has extensive experience as a career diplomat and outside the UK…

  • Mike Palin is the Executive Director of Markets, Partners and Places (MPP). He joined Homes England in February 2021 as Interim Director of the Cities and Major Conurbations Team. He is a successful deliverer of economic gro…

  • Mike Parsons is Director General, Government Property at the Cabinet Office. Mike is also the head of the Government Property Function, leading a network of over 5,000 members with responsibility for a range of property-rela…

  • Mike Pettifer is Director, Academies and Maintained Schools Group.