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Antony Jenkins was appointed Chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships on 27 February 2017. The Institute for Apprenticeships became the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education on 31 January 2019 on the commen…
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Antony Phillipson took up his appointment as British High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa in July 2021. Antony joined the Civil Service in 1993 and has held a number of posts in the UK government. Previous roles…
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Mr Anwar Choudhury succeeded Mrs Helen Kilpatrick CB as Governor of the Cayman Islands on 26th March 2018. Mr Choudhury joined the FCO in 2003 having served in the private sector, the Royal Air Force, the Ministry of Defence…
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As Chief Economist, Aproop leads a team of economists and statisticians who provide analysis and evidence to support trade remedy investigations. Prior to this, he was a Senior Economic Adviser in the Analysis Group at the D…
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Arabel Bailey was appointed Interim Lead Non-Executive Director at the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) on 1 January 2026. Arabel joined DWP as a Non-Executive Director in September 2021, and was appointed as the per…
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Archibald Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery served as Prime Minister between 1894 to 1895. Read more about the life and achievements of Archibald Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Archie Norman was lead non-executive board member at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) from 2016 to 2020. Archie is the Chairman of Marks & Spencer as well as the Chairman of Lazard UK. H…
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Ambassador Archie Young was appointed Ambassador to the UN General Assembly in January 2024. He was previously the Interim Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, New York from October 2025 to July 2026. He previously ser…
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Arfan Chaudhry was appointed as the International Director at the UK Space Agency in June 2021, responsible for international engagement through multilateral and bilateral frameworks, capturing the wider societal benefits of…
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Arik Dondi, External Relations Director, joined the Rural Payments Agency ( RPA ) in November 2013. Before joining the RPA , Arik worked in various roles at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( Defra ) includ…
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Arthur James Balfour served as Prime Minister between 1902 to 1905. Read more about the life and achievements of Arthur James Balfour in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Arthur Snell was born in the south-east of England and educated at Oxford University, where he studied History. After graduating with First Class Honours he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth office. After an initial spell …
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Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington served as Prime Minister between 1828 to 1830 and 1834 to 1834. Read more about the life and achievements of Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Ash Smith is the Director of GOV.UK. He was appointed in September 2024 on an interim basis, joining from his role in GDS as Deputy Director of the GOV.UK One Login programme. Prior to GDS, Ash was Deputy Director for negoti…
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Ashley Dalton MP was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention in the Department of Health and Social Care from 10 February 2025 to 2 March 2026. She was elected as the MP for West Lancashire on…
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Ashley Ibbett is Director General for Aviation, Maritime and Security at the Department for Transport. Ashley was previously Director General for Energy Infrastructure at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DES…
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Ashley Machin left his role as Lead Non-Executive Director at the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) on 31 December 2025. He was appointed as a Departmental Board member in November 2017, and was Lead Non-Executive Dir…
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Ashok joined the UK Government in Wales in July 2018 as the Director of Communications. Before working for the UK Government, Ashok ran a successful bilingual communications agency based in Cardiff. Before that he worked for…
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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office British High Commissioner to Jamaica, August 2017 to August 2021 British Ambassador to the Philippines and Palau, July 2013 to July 2017 British Ambassador to Thailand and Laos,…
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Audrey joined the Student Loans Company as the Chief Financial Officer in August 2021. Audrey has extensive public sector finance experience and a successful track record of leadership for complex organisations within the NH…
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Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, served as Prime Minister between 1768 to 1770. Read more about the life and achievements of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Bal Kaur leads the HR team to develop GAD’s People Strategy. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development with over a decade of strategic HR leadership experience across the Civil Service…
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Barbara began her career in the FCDO in 1999 while still at University. Once she graduated (BSc Hons in Psychology and Human Biology) Barbara took sabbatical to set up an education consultancy company in Hong Kong. She retur…
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Barbara Bennett was appointed Interim Director General Corporate Delivery Group in the Department for Transport ( DfT ) on 27 May 2026. Prior to that, Barbara was Chief Executive and Director General, Jobs and Careers Servic…
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Following the completion of the statutory audit services market investigation, Barbara’s appointment ended on 26 September 2014. The information provided below is accurate for Barbara’s term of appointment only and does not …
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Barbara Habberjam holds the post of Minister Counsellor (Economic and Trade & Investment) at the British Embassy in Moscow. Biography • May 2012 – British Embassy Moscow, Minister Counsellor, Economic, Trade & Invest…
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Barbara Spicer CBE is Chief Executive of the Plus Dane Group - a housing association based in Merseyside and Cheshire which works as a Neighbourhood investor (Ni) and owns and manages more than 18,000 homes. She will commenc…
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Ros Altmann served as Minister of State for Pensions from May 2015 until July 2016. Education Ros attended the Henrietta Barnett School in Hampstead. She graduated from the University College London with a first class honour…
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Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent was appointed jointly as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Ireland Office and Captain of The King’s Bodyguard of the Yeoman of the Guard (Lords Deputy Chief Whip) on …
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Baroness (Angela) Browning was a teacher, auxiliary nurse, and management consultant before entering Parliament. She was MP for Tiverton (1992-1997) and for Tiverton and Honiton (1997-2010). She was Parliamentary Private Sec…
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Baroness Antrobus was appointed Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip) on 23 July 2026.
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Barbara, Baroness Young of Old Scone, has been a Member of the House of Lords since 1997 with special interests in the environment, woods and trees, agriculture, land use, planning, natural resources and climate change. She …
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Baroness Barran MBE was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education from 27 October 2022 to 5 July 2024. She is Government equalities spokesperson in the Upper House. Prior to this she was: Parliam…
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Baroness Berridge of The Vale of Catmose was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System at the Department for Education and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Women) at the Depar…
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Baroness Blackwood was a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care from January 2019 to February 2020. She previously served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Departmen…
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Baroness Blake of Leeds CBE was appointed Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip) on 11 July 2024 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on 22 July 2026.
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Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist was appointed as a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting) on 29 July 2019.
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Baroness Buscombe was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions (Baroness in Waiting) between June 2017 and July 2019. She was a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting) from 21 December 20…
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Baroness Camilla Cavendish was appointed a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care on 13 January 2025. She is a contributing editor and columnist for The Financial Times, a research fellow at Harva…
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Baroness Chisholm was Baroness in Waiting from August 2019 to February 2020. She was previously appointed Baroness in Waiting on 13 May 2015 and was also appointed as spokesperson on Cabinet Office business in the House of L…
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Baroness Curran was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on 22 July 2026. She was previously Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip) between 12 June 2026 and 22 J…
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Baroness Dacres of Lewisham OBE was appointed Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip) on 22 July 2026.
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Baroness Stedman-Scott OBE was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from 30 October 2022 to 1 January 2023. She was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Departmen…
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Diana Mary “Dido” Harding, Baroness Harding is the chairwoman of NHS Improvement and former chief executive of the TalkTalk Group. On graduation she joined the management consultancy McKinsey & Company. In February 2017,…
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Baroness Fairhead CBE was the Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion at the Department for International Trade (DIT) from October 2017 to May 2019. As a former Business Ambassador for UK Trade and Investment (UKTI)…
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Baroness Finn, of Swansea, became a Conservative peer in 2015, and has served as a special adviser in the Cabinet Office, the Foreign Office and Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, and to the Prime Minister in 10 …
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Baroness Floella Benjamin, OBE DL was born in Trinidad in 1949 and came to England as a 10 year old child in 1960 as a Windrush child. She left school at 16 with the aim of becoming Britain’s first ever black woman bank mana…
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Baroness Garden was appointed as a Government Whip and Baroness in Waiting in November 2014. She is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. Education She was educated at Westonbirt School and St Hilda’s College, Oxf…
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Baroness Goldie was a Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence between July 2019 and November 2023. She was a Baroness in Waiting and Government Whip in the House of Lords for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Dep…
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Baroness Gustafsson of Chesterton CBE was Minister of State (Minister for Investment) jointly in the Department for Business and Trade and HM Treasury from 10 October 2024 to 5 September 2025. Prior to entering government, B…