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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 environments for large multinational corporates including Alstom, Royal Dutch...
We have increased the checks on addresses provided in trade mark applications and introduced a process for reporting misconduct by unregulated agents.
Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.
Mike is Director of Waste Operations and Sites at Nuclear Waste Services (formerly Low Level Waste Repository or LLWR), responsible for operating the LLW Repository nuclear licensed site safely and securely. He brings over 25 years’ global experience across high-hazard and...
Dr Mike Short was Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for International Trade from November 2017 to February 2023. He has over 40 years of experience in the electronics and telecommunications industry, latterly as Vice President of Telefonica for 17...
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...
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 thereafter fulfilled a range of...
Advice to The Rt Hon Sir Michael Ellis KBE KC MP, former Attorney General, The Attorney General’s Office on business appointments after leaving Crown service.
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 practice...
Mike Taylor was appointed as a non executive board member on 1 March 2013. He was re-appointed for a second term 1 March 2014 and a third term on the 1 March 2017. He founded Innovise Ltd in 2003 and...
Mike Wood was appointed Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) on 14 November 2023. He was previously Assistant Government Whip between 28 October 2022 and 14 November 2023.
Mike Smith was appointed Head of Counter-Terrorism and Security ( CTS ) Division in September 2018. He is responsible for leading and setting the direction of the Division to help protect UK national security now and in the future, including...
Mike Pettifer is Director, Academies and Maintained Schools Group.
Michael Tatham is the Chief Executive Officer for the UK-African Investment Summit 2024. Previously Michael was the UK’s Deputy Ambassador to the USA, from January 2018 to July 2022. He has completed a number of diplomatic postings and has specialised...
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 instrumental in the...
A UK scientist who established the Gravitational Wave Research Group at the University of Birmingham has been recognised in the New Year Honours for services to space, alongside leading figures from UK astronomy.
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