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Una Bennett was appointed Director of National Services at HMCTS in April 2021. In this role, she has overseen the opening of the final two Courts and Tribunal Service Centres (CTSCs) in Salford and Newport. Una has also led…
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Ursula Brennan has been Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice ( MOJ ) since July 2012. She is also the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. Previous roles include: permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence ( MOD ) f…
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Urvashi Bhagat joined GAD as Finance Director in November 2017. Urvashi is a professionally qualified accountant and has studied for MBA at Plymouth Business. Urvashi has worked across public, private and not for profit sect…
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Valerie took up her role as TSol’s People and Change Director in June 2014. TSol became the Government Legal Department on 1 April 2015. Her previous roles include: Client and Corporate Resources Director at the Treasury Sol…
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Valerie was appointed to the BPDTS Ltd Board as a Non-Executive Director on 1 January 2019. Valerie Gordon-Walker is a former managing director, executive committee member and group head of human resources. During her execut…
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Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth was Chief HR Officer of the BBC and a member of the BBC’s Executive Committee from 2014 until the end of 2019. Prior to this she held the role of Group HR Director at Amey for five years and before that…
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Valerie’s working career has been entirely in private sector but with an extensive Non Executive Director portfolio in the public sector. She was Managing Director of Le Vaillant Owen from 2004 – a consultancy specialising i…
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Valerie Todd joined Crossrail Ltd as Talent & Resources Director in January 2009. Previously, she was Managing Director for Group Services at Transport for London responsible for Procurement, Property & Facilities, H…
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Vanessa joined the MHRA as Director of Human Resources in January 2015. Immediately prior to her appointment she was the Strategic Head of Human Resources for Virgin Care; a private provider of NHS community services across …
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Prior to joining the UK Hydrographic Office, Vanessa has been a multi-award-winning consultant and senior customer experience (CX) and end-to-end customer lifecycle leader. She has over 25 years’ experience in creating and i…
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Vanessa Havard-Williams joined the Export Guarantees Advisory Council (EGAC) in February 2020. She was appointed Interim Chair in early 2023. Vanessa has had a long career as a senior lawyer. She led Linklaters’ global envi…
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Vanessa Howlison was appointed Chief Finance Officer (CFO) for Highways England in June 2016. Prior to this, Vanessa was Group Finance Director at the Department for Transport. She was also Finance Director for the Departmen…
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Vanessa has spent most of her 20 year civil service career focusing on security and law enforcement. Her previous posts include Director of Crime and Drugs Strategy in the Home Office, a secondment to the Metropolitan Police…
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Vanessa is a non executive board member at Companies House. Vanessa is an experienced commercial solicitor, beginning her professional career in a London city firm specialising in multinational commercial and insurance issue…
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Verity Robson is the Legal Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva, where she provides advice on public international law and negotiates…
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Vic Emery joined as Chair of the CNPA Board in September 2016. In the public sector, Vic has served three terms of public service to policing in Scotland - as Chair of the Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA) and more r…
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Vice Admiral Andy Kyte was appointed as the Chief of Defence Logistics and Support (CDLS) with effect from September 2023. He is responsible for developing and overseeing the implementation of a cross-cutting, pan-Defence st…
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Vice Admiral Hally joined the Royal Navy in 1991. In 2012, he became Commander Logistics of the helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious, deploying to the Mediterranean and the Middle East. After tasking to provide humanitarian an…
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Vice Admiral Sir David Steel KBE, DL was Governor of Gibraltar between June 2020 and June 2024. Curriculum Vitae 2014 - present Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire; (from 2015) Chief Executive Officer, Leeds Castle Foundation an…
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Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder assumed the role of UK Military Representative to NATO and the European Union on 31 May 2013. Educated at Rugby School and Peterhouse, Cambridge (Pure Mathematics), he joined the Royal Navy in 197…
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I took over as British High Commissioner to Australia on 13 March 2019. I was previously British High Commissioner to Malaysia and prior to that New Zealand and Samoa and Governor of Pitcairn. These roles were fantastic, pro…
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Vicky Beer started her role as Regional Director for North West in September 2022. Vicky was previously the Regional Schools Commissioner for Lancashire and West Yorkshire. Before her appointment, Vicky was a national leader…
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Vicky is currently General Counsel and Company Secretary for Nuclear Waste Services, heading up the Legal, Governance and Business Support Directorate. Vicky became a legal adviser to LLW Repository Ltd in 2017 and was forma…
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Vicky Ford was Minister of State for Development in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) from 6 September 2022 to 25 October 2022. Previously Vicky was appointed Minister for Africa at the Foreign, Commo…
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Vicky Foxcroft was a Junior Lord of the Treasury (Government Whip) from 10 July 2024 to 19 June 2025. She was elected as the MP for Lewisham North in 2024 and was previously the MP for Lewisham, Deptford from 2015.
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Vicky joined HM Treasury (HMT) in March 2011, this was followed by a short secondment at the British Business Bank, before returning to HMT in July 2015 to lead the Government Financial Reporting Team. Since January 2019 Vic…
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Vicky Seymour was appointed as Head of the East Africa Department of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in April 2023. She shares this role with Lisa Mackie as part of a jobshare. Prior to taking up…
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Vic Annells started his appointment as HM Consul General at the British Consulate General Milan and Director General for Trade and Investment in Italy on behalf of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) as of 1 April 2011. Vic has…
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Victor arrived in Yerevan in November 2020. Since joining the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2003, he has served across a number of political and management roles in Latin America, including Quito, Mexico Ci…
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Victoria Billing was appointed FCDO Director Europe, covering the Mediterranean and Western Balkans, in March 2022. Victoria previously served as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal and Non-Resident Ambassado…
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Victoria took up the post of Deputy Director for Corporate Services in October 2016. She worked most recently in the Scottish Government where she headed up the European Relations team before working on the Scottish Governme…
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Vic Busby became His Majesty’s High Commissioner to Malta in September 2025. Before this, Vic was Director Protocol and Vice-Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) from Sep…
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Victoria Cochrane was appointed as a non-executive member of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service Board in November 2014 and also was the chair of the HMCTS Audit and Risk Assurance Committee until November 2020. Victoria i…
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Victoria Davies was the senior lawyer managing the Legal Transport Team at the Welsh Government until her appointment as Traffic Commissioner. Victoria Davies was appointed as the Traffic Commissioner for Wales in February 2…
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Full name Victoria Glynis Dean (née Courtney) Married to Marcus Scott Dean (September 2006 in Sussex, UK) Children Abigail Victoria Emily Dean, born July 2007 in Brussels, Belgium) Leo Hudson Rees Dean, born November 2010 in…
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Victoria Harrison was appointed British Ambassador to Slovenia in August 2024. After graduating in Russian from the University of Nottingham, Victoria joined the UK Diplomatic Service in 1997 and has served overseas as Secon…
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Victoria James took up post in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as Head of Political Section at the British Embassy Abu Dhabi in July 2017. Victoria has worked in several government departments, including on Strateg…
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Victoria MacDonald has been Head of Advisory & Legislation Division in the Office of the Advocate General since 02 September 2019.
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Victoria joined the Mining Remediation Authority as People and Engagement Director in June 2024. Victoria has a long-standing passion for the environment and has spent her career working in the environmental field for both t…
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Vijay Rangarajan was a Director General at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from 2020 to 2024. His role initially focused on the Americas and Overseas Territories, and later on the Indo-Pacific, Middle East…
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Dr Vikas Shah MBE DL is a Non-Executive Board Member of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DESNZ ). He is also Non-Executive Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. He was also a Non-Executive mem…
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Mr Talwar has been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti and UK Representative to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). He joined the UK diplomatic service in 2003 and has had posti…
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Vincent Devine was appointed Government Chief Security Officer and Head of the Government Security Function in December 2021. Vincent joined the civil service in 1993 and has worked in a wide range of security and national s…
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Vindi has been Chairman of UK Government Investments Limited (UKGI) since September 2021 He is currently also Chair at Marie Curie, a Senior NED at GlaxoSmithKline, a NED of The Economist Group and Partner of CD&R. He ha…
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Virginia McVea is a lawyer who qualified as a solicitor in Northern Ireland in 1993, specialising in European Law, Human Rights and Litigation in private practice. An expert in the duty of the state to protect life, she is a…
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Viscount Camrose was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology between 7 March 2023 and 5 July 2024.