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  • Sue Johnson was appointed Head of Resources Division at UK Export Finance in March 2007. She is also a member of the executive committee and the management board. Sue has worked in the department for over 40 years and has he…

  • Sue Kinoshita became Minister Counsellor for Economic Diplomacy at the British Embassy Tokyo in September 2018. After being appointed Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy Tokyo during 2020-2021, Sue has returned to …

  • Sue took up her appointment as a non-executive director ( NED ) for the Home Office in December 2013. She was appointed as the lead NED in May 2014. Sue has extensive board and international experience. She is currently Chai…

  • Sue is the Interim Regional Director for the West Midlands, starting the role in July 2025. She previously served as Director of Teaching Workforce: Candidates, Trainees, Strategy, Portfolio and Analysis at the Department fo…

  • Dame Sue Owen was appointed Permanent Secretary for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (formerly known as Department for Culture, Media and Sport) in September 2013. In July 2014 Sue became the Civil Servic…

  • Sue is the Director of Operations for disclosure at the Disclosure and Barring Service. She is also an executive member of the DBS board.

  • Sue was the Director for Environment and Economy at Oxfordshire County Council until her retirement in 2016, having previously been the Council’s Assistant Chief Executive and Chief Finance Officer since 2004. Prior to that …

  • Sue was the Director for Environment & Economy at Oxfordshire County Council until her retirement, having previously been their Assistant Chief Executive & Chief Finance Officer. She is a qualified Accountant and has…

  • Dr. Sue Sharland is a Non-Executive Director/Trustee of a number of public, private and not-for-profit organisations; HR Wallingford Group, LUC (a planning and landscape design consultancy), Transport Systems Catapult and VC…

  • Sue is the Head of Public Sector Pensions at GAD which is a functional leader role that combines executive leadership across the Department with individual client work. Sue also leads the team responsible for providing advic…

  • Sujeevan Satheesan was appointed as the British Consul General in Houston in July 2024. He is responsible for the UK’s bilateral relations with Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico. Sujeevan’s career has inclu…

  • Sukhvinder Kaur-Stubbs is a member of the Board at the Regulator of Social Housing. She is Board member and Chair of Regeneration for the London Legacy Development Corporation.

  • Summer Nisar was Deputy Director, Strategy, Policy and Engagement in the Race Disparity Unit (RDU) from 2019 to 2022. Since joining the Civil Service, Summer has worked in domestic and international policy-making, strategy a…

  • Sunny Ahmed has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Kuwait since October 2021 (following an extensive period of Language training in London and Amman). Prior to this, she was based in Washington DC, where s…

  • Susan Acland-Hood has been the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education (DfE) since September 2020. Susan’s previous roles in government include: Chief Executive at HM Courts and Tribunals Service - 2016 to 2020 D…

  • Susan Boyd joined the Rural Payments Agency in April 2018 and has been in the Civil Service for over 30 years, predominantly in the Department for Work and Pensions. She has significant operational experience and has had a f…

  • Susan Geary took up her role as Consul General and Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Athens in September 2021. A career diplomat with wide ranging experience, Susan’s previous overseas postings have included K…

  • Susan Hooper joined the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) as non-executive board member in April 2017. She is also a member of its Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. Susan is the former Managing Director of …

  • Susan has had many years experience in a number of finance director posts, latterly as Group Finance Director in BNFL plc which at its peak was a £3 billion turnover group. Between 2003 and 2009 she worked closely with HMT a…

  • Susan is a Non-Executive Director at the Planning Inspectorate. Susan was appointed Chief Executive of the County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service in 2005 where she had responsibility for leadership of the opera…

  • Susan Johnson OBE was the Chief Executive at County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service until her retirement in July 2015. The appointment meant Susan was the first woman and non-uniformed chief executive to lead a…

  • Susan le Jeune d’Allegeershecque was appointed British High Commissioner to Canada in August 2017. Curriculum Vitae Full name Susan Jane le Jeune d’Allegeershecque CMG Married to Stephane Herve Marie le Jeune d’Allegeershecq…

  • Susan began her career after receiving a Bachelor of Engineering in industrial engineering from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and a Master of Engineering in engineering management from the University of Johanne…

  • Susan Park was appointed Director General, Operations at the Department for Work and Pensions in April 2018. Previously she had been Director General, Universal Credit Operations. Susan rejoined the Department for Work and P…

  • Susan was appointed Her Majesty’s Consul-General in Dusseldorf in August 2013. Her area of responsibility covers North-Rhine Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland Palatinate and Saarland. Susan and her team promote UK exports to Germ…

  • Susan Sternglass Noble has had a long career as a leading analyst and investor in financial services companies. Susan has worked in senior roles at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, CQS and AXA Investment Managers. She has been acti…

  • Susan Winterburn was appointed to the Independent Living Fund’s board of trustees in April 2007. A qualified social worker, Susan was previously: a senior lecturer in Health and Social Care, at York College of Further and Hi…

  • Susanna took up the role of Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary of the Government Legal Department on Monday 8 March 2021. Her previous roles include: Director General, Directorate B, Government Legal Department, 2018…

  • Susanna Moorehead was the British Ambassador to Ethiopia and Djibouti (non-resident) and Permanent Representative to the African Union and UN Economic Commission for Africa from January 2016 until January 2019. Prior to her …

  • Susannah Goshko is a career Diplomatic Service officer who took up her role as British Ambassador to Mexico in November 2024. Prior to her arrival in Mexico, Susannah was posted to Canada where she spent three years as Briti…

  • Susannah Storey is the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Previously, Susannah was Director General for Digital Technologies and Telecoms at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technol…

  • Susie Kitchens arrived in Nairobi in August to take up the position of Deputy High Commissioner and Permanent Representative to the UN Environment Programme. Prior to this assignment, Susie spent a year in London as Deputy D…

  • Susie Warran-Smith CBE DL has been a Non-Executive Director at HM Revenue and Customs since October 2023. She founded the award-winning tax company, Breakthrough Funding, which was sold to EY (Ernst & Young) in 2020. She…

  • Suzanne McCarthy was appointed Immigration Services Commissioner in 2005. She’s held a number of senior public sector positions including Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and Chief Executive, Fin…

  • Suzanne Newton was appointed HMRCs Director General for Change Delivery Group in January 2024, having been HMRCs Director General for Strategic Change since February 2023. She is also Chief Project Delivery Officer (CPDO) fo…

  • Suzanne Webb was Assistant Government Whip from 14 November 2023 to 5 July 2024. She was previously Assistant Government Whip from 8 July 2022 to 20 September 2022.

  • Suzanne White is the Deputy Head of Mission in Mauritania since July 2023. Suzanne joined the Foreign & Commonwealth & Development Office (formerly the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) in 2002. Her most recent over…

  • Suzy Levy was a non-executive board member of the Department for Education between May 2022 and April 2023.  Suzy is managing director of The Red Plate, an executive consulting firm, a board trustee of the Women’s Sport Trus…

  • Sybella Stanley is Director of Corporate Finance at RELX Group plc where she manages RELX’s global mergers and acquisitions programmes. Before joining RELX in 1997, Sybella was a member of the mergers and acquisitions adviso…

  • Taalib Shaah is Group Chief Risk Officer for Barclays, based in London. He is responsible for helping to define, set and manage the risk profile of the bank and leads the risk management organisation across the group. He is …

  • Taiwo Owatemi was appointed Junior Lord of the Treasury (Government Whip) on 10 July 2024. She was elected as the MP for Coventry North West in July 2024.

  • Tamara was appointed Executive Director for Strategy, Transformation and Assurance at the Environment Agency on 4 March 2024.

  • Tammy Sandhu is His Majesty’s Consul General in San Francisco. Prior to this appointment she served as Deputy Consul General, co-leading UK-US relations across the Pacific North West: Northern California, Washington, Oregon,…

  • Tamsin Heath is currently the Deputy Consul General to Hong Kong and Macao. She arrived in Hong Kong and assumed the role in August 2019. Tamsin joined the Diplomatic Service in 2005 as a diplomatic service economist working…

  • Tansi Harper is a non-executive director at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She has represented patients and the public on NHS boards for 20 years and was the first chair of the Northamptonshire Sustainability a…

  • Tanya Collingridge is a career diplomat, whose career has taken her on postings to Warsaw, Vienna, Lagos, Tel Aviv, Bucharest, Brussels and Paris. Much of her career has been spent in multilateral and security policy work, i…

  • Tanya Robinson joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, now Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office in 2000. She took up her role as Deputy Head of Mission to the British Embassy, San Salvador in October 2021. Over th…

  • Tara Smith was appointed Chief Operating Officer at the Department for Business and Trade ( DBT ) in May 2023. Prior to joining DBT , Tara was Director of People and Resources at the Food Standards Agency. Tara has also prev…

  • Non-executive director, UKHO The board’s role is to support and constructively challenge the executive committee and to apply scrutiny both in the development of business strategies, cases, plans and targets; and in assessin…

  • Tasneem is the Chief People Officer at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Prior to joining the MHRA, Tasneem held HR Director roles within the Department of Work and Pensions and the Home Office,…