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Bas was appointed Director General for Immigration Enforcement at the Home Office in November 2023, following a long and varied career in public service. Born to Pakistani immigrants, he was raised in several locations acros…
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Beatrice Kilroy-Nolan became Director General for Trade and Opportunities at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) in February 2023. She was Director General for Trade and Opportunities in the Department for Business, …
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Full name: Becks Buckingham Dates Role August 2021 to present Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, British Embassy Caracas 2020 to 2021 Department for International Trade (DIT), Director Project DEFEND and Global Strategy Directora…
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Becky Bishop is HM Land Registry’s Interim Director of Human Resources and Organisation Development. Appointed to the organisation in April 2025, Becky brings over three decades of experience in human resources, organisation…
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Becky Edwards joined the Further Education (FE) Commissioner team in 2020 as an FE Adviser. She was appointed Deputy FE Commissioner in September 2023. She is a qualified accountant and has a master’s degree in financial man…
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Becky Thomas was the Chief Digital and Information Officer for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ) between November 2025 and April 2026. She had previously held a number of roles at DVSA and its predecessors, in…
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Becky Wood is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA). Before taking up this role, she was a partner at the consultancy firm EY, and prior to that was a Commerc…
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Belinda Howell is a sustainability strategy expert with extensive board experience in international multi-stakeholder organisations. She has advised PLC boards across a wide range of sectors from natural resources, renewabl…
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Belinda started her career in banking before joining the Civil Service in 2003. She worked for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA), the UK Border Agency and the Minist…
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Ben Alexander is Chair of the Planning Inspectorate Board from 1 July 2026 for a period of 4 years. He is also Chair of the Industrial Development Advisory Board, an external member of the Cambridge University finance commit…
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Ben Boddy was appointed as Consul General in August 2018. Prior to this he was Deputy High Commissioner in Brunei (2014-2018); held positions in the Overseas Territories Department, and Drugs and International Crime Departme…
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Ben joined NHS Improvement in June 2016. Before that, Ben was Director of the NHS Group at the Department of Health, with responsibility for managing the Department of Health’s relationship with NHS England and NHS Improveme…
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Ben Evans was the Deputy Head of Mission in La Paz since August of 2021 until November of 2023. Previous to this position he worked on EU Exit, Gibraltar and internal corporate functions. Prior to the civil service, he had a…
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Ben Fender is Director Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). Ben was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia from February 2019 to February 2021. Pr…
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Ben Golding was Acting Director General, Net Zero Buildings and Industry at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) between March and June 2021.
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Ben Goldsmith was appointed non-executive board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in March 2018. Ben Goldsmith is CEO of Menhaden Capital Management LLP which manages London-listed investment t…
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Ben Greenwood is HM Acting Consul General Milan and Director DIT Italy. He was head of Trade Policy in China and has a background in the former Soviet Union, having worked in Russia and Uzbekistan. Ben speaks Russian and Man…
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Ben Linscott was Director of Inspectors from 01 January 2017 - 12 August 2018. Ben had overall line management responsibility for all salaried Inspectors and for their support and professional development through training an…
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Ben Llewellyn-Jones is a British diplomat with a varied career covering many countries and issues. Most recently he was British Deputy High Commissioner (head of office) in Lagos, Nigeria. Prior to that he worked as the Depu…
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Ben Luckock has been Deputy High Commissioner since August 2009. He has previously served in Pakistan (2003-4) and short duration assignments of several weeks in Kenya, Algeria, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Austria, Sri Lanka and S…
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Ben Lyster-Binns was previously His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica and His Majesty’s Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua. Ben joined the Diplomatic Service in 1989 and has carried out a v…
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Ben took up his role as the new Deputy Head of Mission and Political-Security Counsellor, UK Mission to ASEAN, in January 2024. Ben is particularly interested in strengthening UK – Indo-Pacific relations and this is his thir…
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Ben Mellor has worked in diplomacy, development and international policy for over 30 years, with extensive experience across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He began his career with the Foreign Office working on sh…
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Ben was appointed Director of Overseas Territories at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in August 2017. In that role, he holds office as Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory and Commissioner of the British Ind…
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Ben was the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Israel from January 2023 to September 2025. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 2009 following an undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge and experienc…
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Ben is a career diplomat and development professional. Ben Nicholson has been Deputy High Commissioner and Development Director to Malawi since July 2025. Curriculum vitae 2023 to 2025 British Office Sudan, Deputy Head of Mi…
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Ben joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2009. He served as Deputy British High Commissioner to Cyprus from September 2020 to February 2025, following temporary deployments as Deputy Ambassador to Tun…
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Ben Rimmington joined MHCLG as jobshare Director General for Buildings, Fire and Resilience in February 2026. He shares the role with Katie Farrington CB . His previous roles include: Director General, Net Zero Buildings and…
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Ben Snowdon was the British Deputy High Commissioner in Rwanda from 2019 to 2022. Previously he was Head of the West Africa Team in Africa Directorate in London. Ben joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 2015 after…
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Ben joined BDUK in October 2021 as Deputy Director for Risk, Compliance and Governance. In January 2026, Ben became Interim CEO for Building Digital UK, including its two GMPP Programmes: Project Gigabit and the Shared Rural…
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Benedict Llewellyn-Jones OBE has been British High Commissioner to Rwanda and non-resident Ambassador to Burundi since January 2011. Benedict joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2007. He has previously served in th…
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Benjamin Disraeli The Earl of Beaconsfield served as Prime Minister between 1868 to 1868 and 1874 to 1880. Read more about the life and achievements of Benjamin Disraeli The Earl of Beaconsfield in our past Prime Ministers s…
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Bernadette Conroy is Chair of the Board at RSH . Bernadette is an experienced Chair and Non-Executive Director operating across a number of sectors. These include financial services regulation, housing and regeneration, est…
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Bernard Gray was appointed Chief of Defence Materiel for the MOD in January 2011. He has a 20-year association with defence issues and is the author of the Review of acquisition , prepared for the then Secretary of State for…
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Bernard Herdan has been a Non-executive director of the Disclosure and Barring Service since December 2012.
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Bernhard Garside is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983. Bernhard has had postings in Muscat (Oman), Dubai (UAE), Lagos (Nigeria), Havana (Cuba), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and Khartoum…
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Bernice became Executive Director for Repayments and Customer Compliance in March 2018. She joined the Student Loans Company (SLC) in February 2016 as Director of Change and Programme Management. Previously, Bernice was a ma…
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Bessie’s father was infected with Hepatitis B and C, and was treated with Interferon. She is a carrier of Haemophilia. Bessie has an academic interest in the subject, with her undergraduate degree focusing on how societies …
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Beth Cadman is Deputy Head of Mission for the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in South Sudan. Beth has been based at the British Embassy in Juba since November 2023. Beth joined the Department for Internati…
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Beth Russell is Second Permanent Secretary to the Treasury. She is based at the Darlington Economic Campus, where Treasury is co-located with 8 other government departments. Beth has worked in the Treasury since 2000 in a r…
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Beth became Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on National Resilience and Security in the Cabinet Office in February 2020 after 20 years working in the civil service, mostly on national security is…
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Beth West joined High Speed Two Limited as Commercial Director in October 2012. Her previous roles include: Head of Commercial for Thames Water’s Thames tideway tunnel project Principal in the corporate finance team at Trans…
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Betsy was Director General Chief Operating Officer in Defra from September 2014 to January 2019. Prior to joining Defra she spent 12 years at Centrica/British Gas in a number of different roles. Her most recent role was as S…
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Bev is an experienced non-executive director, having held a range of non-executive roles within the public sector including Vice Chair, Committee Chair and Senior Independent Director. She has a background in HR and organisa…
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Bev was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee for the Coal Authority in April 2023 and has been pursuing a non-executive director career since April 2022. She works for…
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Beverley Bell was the Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain. Previous roles in government Traffic Commissioner for the north west of England 2000 to 2017 Senior Traffic Commissioner 2012 to 2017 Career Beverley worke…
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Beverley Simpson was the British Consul General in Denver from November 2011 to December 2015.