Michael Hearty
Biography
Michael Hearty is a Non-Executive Director at HMRC. He is a highly experienced, professionally qualified, senior manager with extensive strategic and operational leadership experience in 2 large and complex UK government departments: the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Education, the latter at Board level. More recently, he spent 5 years on the Board of the Welsh Government, the executive arm of devolved government in Wales, where he provided strategic advice, challenge and support directly to both the First Minister and Finance Minister for Wales on a range of strategic and finance matters. Widely respected for integrity, strategic insight and pragmatism, with particular strengths in transformational change, leadership development and partnership working, Michael is also an experienced non-executive director, having advised high profile organisations such as the Department of Health and Public Health England. Michael was a member of CIPFA’s Council for 4 years and is currently a member of the CIPFA Standards and Financial Reporting Board.
Non-executive Director
Non-Executive Directors bring external experience and expertise to the department, playing an important role in providing advice, challenge and scrutiny to the work of the Executive Committee and the department more widely, both within and outside of formal Board and sub-committee meetings.
Non-Executives contribute their expertise outside the formal Board and subcommittee structures — for example, working closely with executives on specific initiatives, mentoring and undertaking in-depth examinations of risk.
Non-Executive Directors also support the effectiveness of programme boards for HMRC’s most significant transformation programmes.