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Nora holds a number of independent governance roles, including Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee and Non Executive Director on the Board of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), which oversees the production and regulation of the UK’s official statistics...
Victoria Cochrane was appointed as a non-executive member of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service Board in November 2014 and also was the chair of the HMCTS Audit and Risk Assurance Committee until November 2020. Victoria is a non-executive director...
Iain Osborne was appointed as a Non-Executive Director at Monitor on 19 May 2014. He is also Group Director for regulatory policy at the Civil Aviation Authority, and is an experienced regulatory expert having held senior roles in 6 regulated...
Sir Eric Peacock was appointed as a non-executive director of the UKEF Board in 2011. Sir Eric was knighted in 2003 for his services to international trade. He previously sat on the boards of UK Trade & Investment, the Foreign...
Employment Tribunal decision.
Michael is a Director in UK Government Investments (UKGI) He joined the Shareholder Executive (the predecessor to UKGI) in March 2009 and has worked on a range of governance roles and commercial projects across Government. Michael is currently a Non...
Jim Smyllie joined Natural England in 2006. In October 2008, Jim became Executive Director, People, Landscape and Biodiversity. He has held the following roles at Natural England: Transition Director Executive Director, Regional Delivery Executive Director, People, Landscape and Biodiversity His...
Stephen Foreshew-Cain was appointed Executive Director of the Government Digital Service in September 2015. Stephen started his career as an analyst in the mobile telecommunications sector in 1992. His other career highlights include: Chief Operating Officer at the Government Digital...
Rob has been leading the work to set up East West Railway Company since 2017 and is a non-executive director of Network Rail and Sn-ap Travel Technology Limited, a start-up organisation providing travel technology directly to passengers.
Richard Cornish has been appointed Chief Operating Officer
Leading experts have been appointed to oversee the department's work to transform the UK into a science and technology superpower.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Shirley has most recently been the chief people officer at Scottish Water, where she was accountable for all people practices, engagement and internal communications, people change, workplaces, enterprise-wide transformation and digital, and hybrid working. Preceding this she was the people...
Gaenor Bagley was a Non Executive Director at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from May 2018 to August 2020. Gaenor has a particular interest in talent management and leadership development within international organisations. She combines a chartered accountancy qualification with...
Sir Stephen O’Brien was appointed as a non-executive director of the Department for International Trade in June 2019. He has significant international and UK legal, industrial, business (executive and non-executive) and political experience, as well as relevant development experience. He...
Letter from Justine Greening to Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director, UN Women: January 2013.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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