Gus Jaspert
Biography
Gus Jaspert has been the Director General for Delivery Group in the Home Office since August 2021. Gus is responsible for strategy, transformation, risk and delivery in the Home Office.
Gus’s previous career has been spent in varied roles in different aspects of public services, throughout all of which he has focused on improving services to deliver better outcomes for citizens. After a brief attachment in Ghana, he started his career in local government in Surrey County Council, with roles that included supporting vulnerable children and those who needed extra support due to learning or physical disabilities. He also had short roles involving emergency planning and response.
Ensuring safety and security for people became an increasing theme for Gus’s career as he moved into the UK Home Office as a deputy director leading local policing and improving the public’s confidence in the police, and the government’s strategies to reduce the harm from the misuse of alcohol and illegal drugs from 2007 to 2009. During this time he also served as a magistrate in a criminal court in south-west London.
Gus has also worked twice in Number 10 Downing Street (as Private Secretary to Prime Minister David Cameron, and later as Director General of a new delivery unit for Prime Minister Boris Johnson). He has also served as governor of the British Virgin Islands in August 2017 where he led the Territory in the response and recovery from devastating hurricanes; and as Director of Security and Intelligence in the Cabinet Office.
Gus attended his local school in London prior to studying History and German at the universities of Edinburgh and Vienna. While working in local government he completed a postgraduate diploma in management studies at Kingston University. He later became a member of the Royal College of Defence Studies and completed a second master’s degree in international strategy and security at Kings College London in 2014.
Gus was born in London, but now lives in West Sussex.
Previous roles in government
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Director General, Delivery Group
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Governor to the British Virgin Islands