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  • Dave joined HMCTS as Digital Change Director in June 2019. Dave has worked in Information Technology for over 30 years, in a variety of roles, and across a wide range of technologies and industries. These include household n…

  • Dave Webster has been Chief Executive since March 2012. He joined Natural England as a founding member in September 2006. He has over 20 years experience in the environment sector in senior leadership roles. Dave is a qualif…

  • Dave Webster joined APHA in 1 December 2016, as Defra Finance Director with responsibility for APHA. Before joining APHA he was Defra’s Group Director, Commercial Estates and Knowledge, having been Director of Network Corpor…

  • Dave has extensive experience in decommissioning, spanning 30 years since joining the industry as a graduate at Sellafield. He has previously served as site director at Chapelcross and Trawsfynydd, and operations officer for…

  • David was Head of the Governor’s Office (HOGO) and the UK Policy Adviser to the Governor from November 2018 to 2021. Prior to that he was Head of the International HR Policies Teams in the HR Directorate at the Foreign and C…

  • David Ashley is the British Ambassador to South Sudan. He took up his appointment in January 2025. Prior to taking up his current role, David was the British Ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros. He had previously served as …

  • David Banks has been a Non-Executive Director of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) since April 2019. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Young (now EY) in Manchester, and stayed in the profession for a …

  • David Barnes is Deputy Director for agriculture and rural development in the Scottish government, responsible for common agricultural policy and other agricultural issues. He joined the Scottish government in September 2008.…

  • David is a Chartered Management Accountant who prior to joining AECOM as Senior Vice President Nuclear and Environment, spent nine years in the public sector as Group CFO for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority including i…

  • David has 30 years’ experience in the financial sector and has a proven track record in delivering digital and large-scale transformational change.  He has spent the last 14 years at Aegon UK, where most recently he was Tran…

  • David Belgrove was appointed Her Majesty’s British High Commissioner to The Gambia in August 2020. Prior to this appointment he was the British Ambassador to Liberia 2015 to 2020. Since joining the Foreign & Commonwealth…

  • David Bennett is a Non-Executive Director with over 30 years’ experience in financial services having held a range of senior executive positions in retail banking both in the UK and overseas, including the USA and Australia.…

  • David is the Department for Transport’s representative on the DOHL board. He has over 20 years’ experience of government commercial operations and shareholder functions. He is currently the Head of Direct Rail Operations in …

  • David Bennett is the Delivery Director for Phase One. He joined HS2 from global engineering firm Jacobs and has wide ranging experience of delivering complex projects across the globe. Following the recent publication of our…

  • David Bernstein joined the HMPPS as a Non-Executive Board Member on 20 May 2021. David Bernstein has been chairman of the British Red Cross since 2015 and brings a wealth of business and professional experience. David served…

  • David Bickerton became the Chief Strategic Business Adviser at the Department for Business and Trade ( DBT ) in January 2025. He was previously Director General for Business Group at DBT from February 2023 to December 2024. …

  • David’s early career was in the automotive, consumer goods and financial services sectors before spending a number of years in senior consulting roles with Price Waterhouse and Atos KPMG. He then moved on to hold Human Resou…

  • David Blackall was acting Chief Operating Officer of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). As Chief Operating Officer, David supported both the Permanent Secretary and Second Permanent Secretary across a wide range of their respons…

  • David Bolt was appointed as interim Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration on 24 May 2024 with effect from 3 June. In 2022 he was appointed as an independent member of the Parole Board for England and Wales. …

  • David is Executive Director, Finance and Operations, and joined Ofqual in 2022. His previous roles in the civil service include: Director of Accommodation, Defence Infrastructure Organisation  Head of Customer Finance, Defen…

  • David Brewer joined the Highways Agency in 2013 as Network Delivery and Development Director. He is responsible for maintenance and improvement of the strategic road network. His previous roles include senior posts with BAA,…

  • David Brooker joined DCMS in March 2008 as the Director responsible for the legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and since 2011 has also been the lead Director for Sport. Having studied English at the University …

  • David Brooks has been appointed as a non-executive director of the Coal Authority and the chair of its HR and Remuneration Committee (retitled the People and Remuneration Committee from 1 April 2023) from 1 April 2022 to 31 …

  • David Bunch has more than 20 years of operational experience in building, running and leading a variety of mobility-related businesses across Europe, North America and South Africa combined with extensive board-level experie…

  • David has more than 20 years’ legal experience. He trained in the Inland Revenue and has worked extensively on tax matters, leading large HMRC legal teams dealing with tax policy and legislation in relation to UK business an…

  • David Burrowes was the Prime Minister’s Deputy Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief from January 2022 to July 2024. David is a solicitor specialising in criminal law. Before being elected Member of Parliament for …

  • David Burton has been Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Rome since August 2024. During his career David has worked on a wide range of issues including Europe, South Asia, G7/G20, international jus…

  • Date Role 2019 to present Equinor, Vice President 2015 to 2019 Stockholm, Her Majesty’s Ambassador and Director of Nordic Baltic Network 2010 to 2014 FCO, Director, Estates, Security, Corporate Services 2006 to 2010 Tokyo, D…

  • David has been the British High Commissioner to Brunei since October 2013. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1981 and has served overseas in Europe, the Caribbean and Asia Pacific, including Singapore an…

  • David completed a 43-year banking career with Barclays in December 2024. He is a specialist in social housing finance having led that team within Barclays for 10 years. He has experience in all aspects of debt finance includ…

  • Appointed Non-Executive Director to the VMD in December 2018. He is a former council member of the Royal College of Veterinary Sugeons (RCVS) and has 30 years’ experience working in a veterinary practice. A member of the VMD…

  • David Charles is the Programme Director at the Disclosure and Barring Service. He has worked for IBM for 14 years, the majority of that time spent as a programme manager in the public and retail sectors with clients such as …

  • David joined the Nuclear Restoration Services Ltd Board on 1 June 2024 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. He holds a degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Strathclyde University and began his career wit…

  • David Clarke has been a Non-executive director of the Disclosure and Barring Service since December 2012.

  • David Clay has been a member of the Diplomatic Service since 2005, and has been appointed as the next British Consul General to New England. David was joint head of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Iraq and…

  • David is a chartered civil engineer with more than 40 years’ experience in the engineering and construction industry. Now retired from full-time employment, David’s last executive role was as a member of the WS Atkins plc Gr…

  • David Cockburn was appointed as the Certification Officer on 1 August 2001 and re-appointed in 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2012. He’s a solicitor who previously worked in private practice for 29 years. David is currently a vice-pre…

  • David started his role as British High Commissioner to Tanzania in August 2020. Before that, David was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia from January 2017 until February 2019. CURRICULUM VITAE Full …

  • David Cooper was appointed as Non-Executive Director at HMRC in May 2021, and is an experienced CIO and business transformation leader. His previous role in Mitie, as the Chief Transformation and Technology Officer, saw him …

  • His previous roles include: Non-executive Director, Senior Independent Director and Chair of Audit and Remuneration Committees at TT Electronics PLC, 2005 to 2012 Board Member at the Professional Oversight Board, (part of Fi…

  • David Currie was the Chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) until 19 June 2018. The CMA was established on 1 October 2013 and assumed its full functions and powers on 1 April 2014. He is also: Member of the …

  • David Duguid was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland between 20 September 2022 and 27 October 2022. He was also jointly an unpaid Parliamentary Under Secretary of Stat…

  • David was Chief Finance Officer at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory until 2024. David joined Dstl from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) where he was the Head of Business Strategy and Governance, the department’s co…

  • David Fison is Chief Executive of Osborne, a family-owned construction business. He has more than 35 years’ experience working in the construction sector. He was Chief Executive Officer of Skanska UK plc, the UK arm of one o…

  • David Fitton CMG has been appointed British High Commissioner to Jamaica in succession to Mr Howard Drake, who has transferred to another Diplomatic Service appointment. David Fitton joined the FCO in 1980 and was, until rec…

  • David was appointed as the Director of the Office for the Pay Review Bodies (OPRB) in August 2020. Previously, he was the Head of Profession for Statistics at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) wh…

  • David was appointed Chief Operating Officer in February 2021. He was previously Director of Legal and Policy and joined the SSRO as Head of Legal in September 2015. David is a lawyer who first qualified in Australia where he…