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Claire Graves is the Director of Finance at the Disclosure and Barring Service. Claire took on this post at DBS in July 2020. Claire joined DBS in 2016 as the Senior Finance Business Partner, and has since worked as the Seni…
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Claire Hall joined Menzies Aviation in October 2017 as the Global Executive Vice President of people. Claire has a wealth of experience gained over several decades from brands such as Tesco, Boots, British Gas and McDonalds.…
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Claire joined the Insolvency Service in 2021 as Head of the Insolvency Practitioner Regulation Section. She now serves as co-Director of the Strategy, Policy and Analysis Directorate, working in a job-share partnership with …
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Claire joined the Insolvency Service in 2021 as Head of the Insolvency Practitioner Regulation Section. She now serves as co-Director of the Strategy, Policy and Analysis Directorate, working in a job-share partnership with …
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Claire has had a varied career with extensive experience gained through engineering, data and architecture roles in the private sector and senior public sector roles focussed on digital and organisational transformation, leg…
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Claire Hughes joined the MCA in 2000, holding various roles within the HR team and working up to the role of HR Director and Chief People Officer in 2012. Claire was also on secondment as Director of HR at the Department for…
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Claire Hughes was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Wales Office and Assistant Whip, House of Commons on 16 September 2025. She was previously Junior Lord of the Treasury (Government Whip) between 7 Sep…
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Claire took up her role as TSol Director General in April 2014. TSol became the Government Legal Department (GLD) on 1 April 2015. Claire left GLD in 2018. Her previous roles include: Director, Department for Education Advis…
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Claire Tunbridge has over 20 years’ experience specialising in reward management and within private companies that include RWE and Npower. This has provided her with a wealth of knowledge in all aspects of remuneration and r…
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Claire was appointed as a Non-executive Member in June 2021. She is a member of the Regulatory Committee. Claire is a non-executive director of the Utility Regulator for Northern Ireland and of the Citizen Housing Group. Cla…
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Claire is a Deputy Director at HM Treasury working on the COVID-19 economic response. She recently spent 3 years on secondment to UKGI where amongst other things she sat on the Board of HM Land Registry as the Government’s n…
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Clara Swinson is Second Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office overseeing the Domestic and Economic Pillar, including the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat and 10 Data Science. She was Director General for Global …
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Clare Allbless is Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Ashgabat. She took up her post in March 2025. Clare joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in 1997. Turkmenistan is her fifth overs…
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Clare Brodie joined the TRA as our General Counsel in 2018 and was appointed an executive director of the Board in June 2021. Since 2018, she has been establishing and developing the legal function and her team provide legal…
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Clare Filshie and John Fox have been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Norway since August 2021, working as a job-share. They are partners and have job-shared together since 2009, when they served as Political…
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Clare joined the Adjudicator’s Office in April 2019 as a member of the Senior Leadership Team. Clare has worked across a number of leadership roles in that time including Head of Investigation, Head of Strategy and Head of C…
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Clare has worked in government since 2005, after starting her career as an economist at the Bank of England. Her roles have included Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Private Secretary for Econo…
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Clare Minchington was appointed to the Agency Board in January 2021. She has spent her career working within professional education and regulation. Her current appointments and experience include: Chair, Audit and Risk Commi…
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Clare Moriarty has been Permanent Secretary for the Department for Exiting the European Union since April 2019. Her previous roles include Permanent Secretary for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Direct…
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Clare Nichols became Chief Financial Officer at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) in January 2023. Clare has extensive background in finance and procurement within government, both in the UK and Australia. Her p…
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Clare Pillman has been a director at DCMS since March 2011. Clare joined the civil service in 1992. Since then, she’s spent time at the Treasury and the Department for Constitutional Affairs as well as DCMS . Career highligh…
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Clare Toogood was appointed Head of the Public Defender Service in December 2014. But she joined the Legal Aid Agency in April 2014 as Head of the Public Defender Service Advocacy Unit. Clare’s previous roles include Area Bu…
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Claude Jaouen, is an alumnus of the Ecole Centrale de Paris and a Doctor in engineering. Having started his career in the nuclear fuel reprocessing including technological developments, engineering studies, construction and…
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Claudia is currently the Chair of Deliveroo PLC, and Remuneration Committee Chair of Kingfisher PLC and Derwent London PLC. She also serves as a member of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers. Claudia began her executive caree…
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Claudia Sturt’s previous roles include: 2021 - 2023 Chief Executive of the Youth Justice Board 2016 - 2021 Director, Security, Order and Counter Terrorism at the National Offender Management Service, now HM Prison and Probat…
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Clement Attlee served as Prime Minister between 1945 to 1951. Read more about the life and achievements of Clement Attlee in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Clive Alderton was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco and former Her Majesty’s non-resident Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania from 2012 until 2015. Mr Alderton previously served as a Member of …
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Clive joined HMT in May 2022 as Head of the Government Risk Profession. Clive was at EY for 17 years (the last 9 of which were as a Partner) where among other responsibilities he led the development of client-facing risk man…
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Clive Maxwell is Interim Permanent Secretary for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DESNZ ). He was previously the Second Permanent Secretary from February 2023 to November 2025. Clive has worked across govern…
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Clive joined the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in April 2005, after 15 years with British Nuclear Fuels, where he undertook a number of roles across research and development, technical and commercial areas. Through…
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Clive is a former practising barrister. He has severe haemophilia A and spent nine years as a trustee of the Haemophilia Society and six years as Chair. Those 6 years coincided with the Infected Blood Inquiry and Clive spent…
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Clive is currently a non-executive National Committee Member and audit committee chair at the Forestry Commission England, and a steering board member of the UK Space Agency and chair of its audit committee. He is also a non…
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Ruth has extensive local government experience, having been first elected as a councillor at the London Borough of Sutton in 2002. She was Leader of the Council from 2012 until 2024. During that time, she was one of the Vice…
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Codrutza was appointed to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel in November 2025 for a period of 4 years. Codrutza is a qualified social worker with over 28 years of experience in children’s social care. She has worke…
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Colin Allars is Chair of Gov Facility Services Ltd. Colin joined GFSL as a non-executive Director shortly after the Company was launched, subsequently becoming Chair in May 2018. An engineering graduate, Colin has worked in …
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Colin arrived in the Solomon Islands in January 2012. Career at Foreign & Commonwealth Office He joined the Foreign Office in 1996 as Assistant Administrator to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) and was Vice Cons…
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Colin Clark was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scotland Office and Government Whip from 27 July 2019 to 16 December 2019. Colin Clark is a self-made businessman who has spent 30 years in the agri-food sector. …
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Colin James Crooks LVO became Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Korea on 17 February 2022. Before this, he was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from 2018 to 2021. Crooks joined …
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Colin Crorkin MBE was appointed British Ambassador to The Republic of The Gambia in succession to David Morley, who has retired from the Diplomatic Service. Colin Crorkin took up his appointment in April 2014. Colin Crorkin …
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Colin Day was appointed non-executive board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in March 2018 and was chair of the Defra Audit and Risk Assurance Committee from July 2018. Colin Day’s term ended …
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Colin Dick OBE took up the position of Chargé d’Affaires at the British Embassy in Caracas in August 2023. Curriculum vitae Dates Role 2020 Deputy Director, Cabinet Secretariat, Cabinet Office 2019 Deputy Director, Departmen…
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Colin Dingwall has been Director of Domestic Policy and Implementation at the Department for Exiting the European Union since July 2019. His previous roles include Director, Functional Support Team, EU Exit Implementation Gr…
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Colin Faulkner is responsible for Scottish constitutional policy, including the Scotland Bill, as well as civil contingencies & resilience policy. He joined the Scotland Office in April 2012, acting as Principal Private …
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Colin Gray joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2008. He has previously worked in the British Embassy to the Republic of Korea and has served as Deputy Head of Mission and Consul General in Lima since September 2017…
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Colin Kennedy is Chief Executive of The Mary Peters Trust, a leading Northern Ireland Sporting Charity. He started his career with the Halifax Building Society and rose to the level of Group Manager Northern Ireland before b…
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Colin joined the UK Space Agency in November 2018, and was appointed as interim Director of Regulation in September 2019. He has held a number of roles across the civil service, including Cabinet Office, Department for Exiti…
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Colin Martin-Reynolds was sworn in as the Governor of the Falkland Islands and His Majesty’s Commissioner to South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands in July 2025. Before this, Colin was Director for Organisational Imp…