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Biography Richard joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1996 and has served overseas in Zimbabwe, Australia and Brazil. He has also been Head of Crisis Management Department at the FCO and most recently, Head of Security Policy Department...
Richard Hornby is a senior finance professional with experience in public and private sector organisations. Richard has a background in delivering and integrating local public services, project and portfolio management as well as strategic leadership at an organisational level. Richard...
Richard Thomas CBE LLD was the Information Commissioner from November from 2002 to 2009, responsible for enforcement of the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts. He was subsequently the Chairman of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council and served...
Richard has over 25 years’ experience in the Risk and Control sector, working both in the UK and across the world. He’s spent the majority of his career working in the financial sectors for Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and...
Commodore Richard Powell joined the Royal Navy in 1980. After initial officer training, which included service in the South Atlantic during the 1982 Falklands campaign, he was appointed to the Hong Kong Squadron as a patrol boat navigator. In 1985,...
Richard Hughes is a member of the Board at the Regulator of Social Housing. He had a 33 year career spanning retail banking, mortgage lending, commercial real estate and recoveries.
Richard Goodman is the Director General for Safer and Greener Buildings at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Richard previously led the government’s work to support London through COVID-19. He joined HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) in...
Richard Moon has been Deputy Ambassador in the British Embassy, Kabul, since July 2016. Before coming to Afghanistan Richard spent five years as UK member of UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) in New York. Other previous...
Richard Crowder took up his appointment as Deputy High Commissioner to Pakistan in January 2017.He has worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for twenty years, with postings in Moscow and Brussels. Richard’s most recent job was head of the...
Richard Brooks is programme and delivery director at Dstl . He is a former chief operating officer at the UK Hydrographic Office. He is a chartered mechanical engineer, a chartered member of the Institute of Personnel and Development, and a...
Richard took up his appointment as Deputy Head of Mission (DHM) to Latvia in July 2012. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2004. Richard has previously been posted to Japan.
Richard Collier-Keywood is the Chair of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, the Chair of Humentum, an NGO based in Washington DC focussed on supporting Operational Excellence in the NGO sector, the Chair of New Forest Care, a company that provides...
British Deputy Consul General at São Paulo and Deputy Director for Trade and Investment for Brazil since November 2009. Born in London in 1963. Third Secretary in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in 1986. Third Secretary at the UK Delegation to...
Richard Disney is a Visiting Professor of Economics at University College, London and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He was previously a member of the NHS Pay Review Body (2003-09). His fields of interest and published...
General Richard Barrons was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1977, prior to reading for a degree in philosophy, politics and economics at Queen’s College, Oxford. He has completed a Masters in Defence Administration (1990), Army Staff College...
Findings from Doug Richard's independent review on what apprenticeships should be and how they can meet the changing needs of the economy.
The Rt Hon Lord Benyon was Minister of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from November 2023 to July 2024. He was previously Minister of State (Minister for Biosecurity,...
Richard Hennessy became Director of Operations (South) at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ) in April 2017. Before joining DVSA , Richard had a number of roles at British Gas. The most recent of which were: Head...
Following the completion of the statutory audit services market investigation, Richard’s appointment ended on 26 September 2014. The information provided below is accurate for Richard’s term of appointment only and does not take account of any future roles. Richard Farrant...
Richard Cornish was appointed Director General and Chief Operating Officer at the Government Legal Department in March 2024. His previous Civil Service roles include: Chief Executive of Defence Business Services, Ministry of Defence Chief Operating Officer, Natural England Director of...
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