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  • Catherine Salway was appointed as a non-executive director at the Intellectual Property Office in September 2024. Catherine is an experienced Board Director who previously accumulated 7 years of board seats within the Virgin…

  • Catherine Vaughan CB was appointed as Finance Director General for the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) in October 2022. Before joining DWP , Catherine was the Director General and Chief Operating Officer for the Dep…

  • Catherine is the Director of Policy in the Europe Unit at the Cabinet Office. Catherine began her civil service career in 2000 and held various roles in the Treasury for 11 years. She then took up the role of Economic and Tr…

  • Catherine West was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 9 July 2024. Since 2015 she has been the Labour MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet. Catherine studied m…

  • Catherine was the interim Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management for the Environment Agency between December 2020 and April 2021. She has been at the Environment Agency for more than 20 years in a wide range…

  • Cathrine was Chief Customer Officer at the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) from 2018 to June 2022. Cathrine joined the UKHO in 2018 after an extensive global career in industry and government across environment, geospatial, te…

  • Cathryn was appointed Regional Director, North East Yorkshire and Humber in November 2016. Her previous roles in Ofsted include Senior Operational lead for the North East, Yorkshire and Humber, and Principal Officer, Schools…

  • Cathy Bassa has been appointed Chargée d’Affaires to Cuba from 28 January until 20 March 2025. Before this period, she was UK’s Deputy Ambassador and His Majesty’s Consul to Cuba. Cathy arrived in Havana in August 2021 follo…

  • Cathy became Director of Strategy for PHE in May 2020 after 6 years with the agency working in a number of policy and strategy roles including Deputy-Director of Strategy. Cathy has been PHE’s Head of Policy Profession since…

  • Catrina Holme is Non-executive Director, Board to HM Land Registry. She started her career as a private equity lawyer at City law firm Travers Smith and has a background in the venture capital and private equity industry hav…

  • Catriona Graham was appointed British Consul General in Milan and Director of the Department for Business and Trade in Italy from October 2019 till September 2024. Catriona was previously Commercial Counsellor at the British…

  • Catriona Wendy Campbell Laing CB, was the British High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria from November 2018 to May 2023. Prior to this she was the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe from 2014 to 2018. Catriona has …

  • Catriona Mace took up her role as Foreign and Development Policy Director at the UK Mission to the European Union in August 2022. Before that, Catriona was Deputy Director Corporate Transformation in the Foreign, Commonwealt…

  • Catriona has been in the Civil Service since 1985 and has undertaken a number of roles for DWP (and its predecessors), including acting Work Services Director for Scotland, until she joined the RPA in July 2018. She has cons…

  • Board skills and experience: Catriona brings 40 years of expertise in the infrastructure sector as a hydrogeologist and engineer, with significant experience in Executive, Board Chair and Non-Executive roles. Her career has …

  • Catriona Williams OBE is currently the Chief Executive of Children in Wales and was a leading member of the campaign to establish the first Children’s Commissioner for Wales. She was also a founder member of Eurochild, the a…

  • Cecilia was appointed Chief Executive of the Parole Board in October 2024. She has significant public service experience having worked in central government for over 25 years in a range of operational delivery, corporate ser…

  • Cecille El Beleidi became the British Consul-General, Jeddah in September 2022. Cecille joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) in 1983. Before, she has worked in Kuwait, Nepal, Morocco, Eygpt, Saudi Arabia, Qat…

  • A qualified lawyer and consultant, Celia has spent most of the last 20 years in commercial roles working on major infrastructure projects for both the public and private sectors in the areas of road and rail transport, power…

  • Ceri Richards is a member of the Board at RSH. She is an independent consultant with a portfolio of interests.

  • Ceri Smith is Director General, Office for Investment at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). From April 2021, he was Director General, Strategy and Investment at the Department for International Trade ( DIT ). He jo…

  • Ceri joined Companies House in 2015. Ceri has a degree in mathematics from Cardiff University and started her career in the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), where she held a variety of different roles. She began as a pate…

  • Chandru Iyer is the Deputy High Commissioner to Karnataka and Kerala. He was appointed in November 2022. In addition, he is also His Majesty’s Deputy Trade Commissioner for Investment for South Asia with a mandate to further…

  • Chantal joined the Homes and Communities Agency now known as Homes England in January 2017 as the Interim Chief Risk Officer for both the agency and the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Prior to joini…

  • Chantel Kelly joined the Insolvency Service on 26th April 2021, previously working within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for 26 years in various finance roles. These roles included leading teams on Benefit Accoun…

  • Charles Alexander worked at Rothschild from 1974-99, latterly as Managing Director of international corporate and project finance, specialising in cross-border Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and Europe. From 1988…

  • Charles Amies joined the Homes and Communities Agency in December 2008 as Head of Area for the South East Midlands area, and was appointed as the agency’s acting director for the Midlands in September 2013. His previous role…

  • Charles was appointed Chief Executive Officer of UK Government Investments in March 2020, having joined in May 2018 as Head of the Financial Institutions Group. Prior to this, he had spent his entire career in investment ban…

  • Charles Edmund Garrett joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1987. His career has been divided between Europe with postings in Cyprus and Switzerland, and East Asia with postings in Hong Kong and Taipei. More recen…

  • Charles Farr was appointed as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment at Cabinet Office in December 2015. Charles was the Director General of the Office for Security and …

  • Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey served as Prime Minister between 1830 to 1834. Read more about the life and achievements of Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey in our past Prime Ministers section.

  • Charles was the Head of DFID Jordan. He took up this role in July 2019. Before coming to Amman he was the interim Head of Finance and Control Department in Whitehall. His previous roles in DFID include: deputy Head of Privat…

  • His Excellency Charles Hay MVO started as the British High Commissioner to Malaysia in March 2019 in succession to Vicki Treadell CMG MVO. Prior to Malaysia, Mr Hay was the British Ambassador to South Korea from 2015 to 2018…

  • Charles Hendry was Minister of State for Energy at the Department for Energy & Climate Change from May 2010 to September 2012. He was elected Conservative MP for Wealden on 7 June 2001. Education Charles was educated at …

  • Charles Lochrane is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and after long service has retired from his role as partner and proprietary partner at Strutt & Parker, a large firm of Chartered Surveyors. In…

  • Charles Moore was appointed as the British High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia in January 2021. He is a career diplomat, having joined HM Diplomatic Service in 1982, serving in overseas postings to Zimbabwe, Oman, B…

  • Charles Randell was a non-executive board member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) from 2016 to 2018. Charles has been an independent director of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulatio…

  • Charles Redfearn joined UK Export Finance in 1995. He is the acting General Counsel for UK Export Finance, and a member of the executive committee and management board.

  • Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, served as Prime Minister between 1765 to 1766. Read more about the life and achievements of Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd Marquess of Rockingham in our past Prime Minister…

  • Charley Williams is currently chargé d’affaires at the British High Commission Bridgetown covering Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St Lucia, and St Christopher & Nevis.…

  • Charlie is a senior data leader with extensive leadership experience turning data into a sustainable resource in a number of large enterprises. He draws on best practice experience from retail, utilities, telcos, insurance a…

  • Charlie Elphicke served as Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) from May 2015 until July 2016. He is also a campaigner for fathers’ rights, leading to government adopting his proposal to give children a right t…

  • Charles has 38 years industry experience gained from leading IT globally as Deputy Group Global CIO at BP, as CEO of Global IT Services at Prudential and as Interim CIO at Thames Water. He has worked as an independent consul…

  • Charlie Massey has worked in a variety of roles across government, including: Director General for Acute Care and Workforce July 2016 to October 2016 Director General for Strategy and External Relations at the Department of …

  • Charlie Pate has been in the UK Civil Service since 1999. After a number of roles working on welfare issues and local government performance, Charlie headed HM Treasury’s early engagement on the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic G…

  • Charlie is Group Chief Financial Officer and Board member of International Workplace Group Plc, the world’s largest office provider with its Regus and Spaces brands across 120 countries, employing 10,000+ people and a member…

  • Charlie Taylor became Chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales in March 2017. His tenure came to an end in March 2020. Before taking up this role he led the Government’s review of the youth justice system, Char…

  • Charlotte Briscall worked previously as the Head of Digital Experience at Sainsbury’s where she was instrumental in the work to design and develop their customer, colleague and supplier facing digital services. Charlotte bri…

  • Charlotte Fenton became the Deputy High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia in January 2020. Charlotte joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 1997 in the office of the Permanent Under Secretary. She…