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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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.
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Tamara was appointed Executive Director for Strategy, Transformation and Assurance at the Environment Agency on 4 March 2024.
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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Tasnim Khalid, Solicitor, is the founder and Managing Partner of “Private Client Solicitors” which is a boutique law firm that specialises in private wealth planning, charity law and practice. Tasnim is ranked in leading le…
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Tera Allas joined BIS as Director General for Strategy, Analysis and Better Regulation in January 2011. In addition to her departmental duties, Tera is also the Deputy Head of the Government Economic Service. She previously …
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Terence Jagger spent his early career with Shell, American Express, Burmah Oil and Unigate. After a Masters degree in Finance, he joined the Civil Service in 1995, where he worked in the Ministry of Defence until 2011. His r…
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Teresa Dent has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust since 2001, a charity whose remit is wildlife conservation with a special interest in game species. She is also a board member of t…
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Teresa Kelly was appointed Deputy Further Education Commissioner in January 2016. Teresa has been involved with education and training for all of her professional career and represented the FE sector on a number of national …
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Teresa Stanley was appointed Chief People Officer in July 2023. Teresa has a wide range of experience in Human Resources ( HR ), which includes working with the police force as well as within academia. She joined Dstl as a p…
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Terry Fuller joined the HCA in December 2008. Before this, he was Managing Director, Major Projects and Affordable Housing for Taylor Wimpey Developments. Terry spent 12 years in public sector housing management, starting wi…
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Terry Makewell was Chief Technology Officer at the UK Hydrographic Office from April 2018 to December 2023. He is a member of the British Council Digital Advisory Group. Prior to joining the UKHO, Terry was Chief Digital Off…
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Terry was appointed Second Permanent Secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions on 4 July 2012 and continued in his role as Chief Operating Officer which began on 3 October 2011. Terry joined the department in 1977 st…
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Terry is a specialist in strategy and public sector reform and joined HM Land Registry in 2020 as Deputy Director for Strategy. Terry was previously Director of Strategic Planning at the Marine Management Organisation (MMO),…
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Tessa is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Skills England, job sharing with Sarah Maclean . She has more than 20 years’ experience in the public sector including roles in the Department for Education and Cabinet Office.
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Thalia was the Director of the Geospatial Commission, which is an independent Expert Committee within the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, tasked with advising the government on priorities f…
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Baroness (Glenys) Thornton worked in the voluntary, co-operative and private sectors for over 30 years. During her career she was General Secretary of the Fabian Society, trustee of Action for Children, Jamie Oliver’s 15 Fou…
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The Earl of Courtown was Deputy Chief Whip (Captain of The Queen’s Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard) from 13 July 2016 to 4 July 2024. Education He was educated at Eton College, the Berkshire College of Agriculture and …
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Timothy Minto was a Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence between November 2023 and July 2024. He was elected to the House of Lords in October 2022, and appointed as a Minister in the Department of Business and Trade …
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Alice Walpole took up her post as the British Ambassador to Luxembourg in July 2011. Immediately before that, she was the British Consul General in Basra, Iraq. Alice began her career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office i…
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Zoë was appointed Chair of the Police Remuneration Review Body ( PRRB ) and the National Crime Agency Remuneration Review Body ( NCARRB ) by the Prime Minister in January 2022. She was appointed ex-officio member of the SSRB…
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The Right Honourable Alan Milburn was a Member of Parliament from 1992 to 2010. He served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999, Secretary of State for Health from 1999 to 2003 and Chancellor of the Duchy of L…
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Alec Shelbrooke was Minister of State for the Ministry of Defence between 6 September 2022 and 26 October 2022. Alec attended St George’s Church of England Comprehensive School in Gravesend, before going on to study Mechanic…
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Alex Chalk KC was Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice between 21 April 2023 and 5 July 2024. He was Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence from October 2022 to April 2023 and was formerly HM Solicitor Ge…
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Alistair Burt was Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister of State at the Department for International Development from June 2017 to March 2019. Alistair served as Minister o…
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Alistair Carmichael was Secretary of State for Scotland from October 2013 to May 2015. He was elected as the MP for Orkney and Shetland in 2001. Education Alistair attended Port Ellen Primary School and Islay High School. He…
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Alister Jack was Secretary of State for Scotland between 24 July 2019 and 5 July 2024. He was previously Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury and a Government Whip. He was Scottish Conservative MP for Dumfries and Galloway from …
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Alun Cairns was Secretary of State for Wales between 19 March 2016 and 6 November 2019. He was elected as Conservative MP for the Vale of Glamorgan in May 2010 (re-elected 2015). Education Alun attended the University of Wal…
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Amber Rudd was Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Minister for Women and Equalities between 24 July 2019 and 7 September 2019. Amber was previously Secretary of State for Work and Pensions between 16 November 2018 …
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The Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department of Health and Social Care between 13 November 2023 and 5 July 2024. She was previously the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and In…
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Andrew Lansley CBE was appointed Leader of the House of Commons in September 2012. He was elected Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire on 1 May 1997. Education Andrew was educated at Brentwood School, Essex, and the Univ…
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Andrew Mitchell was a Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) between 25 October 2022 and 5 July 2024. On 12 April 2024 he was given the honorific title of Deputy Foreign Secretary. He …
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Andrew Robathan was appointed Minister of State for Northern Ireland in October 2013. He was elected Conservative MP for South Leicestershire in 1992. Education Andrew was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School in Northwood an…
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Andrew Stephenson was Minister of State in the Department of Health and Social Care between 13 November 2023 and 5 July 2024. He was previously Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) from 27 October 2022 to 13 No…
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Angela Rayner was Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Deputy Prime Minister from 5 July 2024 to 5 September 2025. She was elected as the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in May 2015.