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Debra has devoted more than 32 years to working in the pensions industry and has a wide range of experience including in-house and outsourced schemes, in both private and public sector schemes. Debra joined the Cabinet Offic…
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Declan Collier is the Chair of the Office of Rail and Road. Previously, Declan was CEO of London City Airport, a role which he held since 2012, and prior to that he was CEO of Dublin Airports Authority for 7 years. He is cur…
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Dehenna Davison was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from 7 September 2022 to 18 September 2023.
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Deirdre Brown is former Deputy Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe based in Vienna. She left post in June 2025. Deirdre joined the then Foreign & Commonwealth…
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Deirdre Costigan was appointed Assistant Whip, House of Commons on 7 September 2025. She was elected as the MP for Ealing Southall in July 2024.
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Demis Hassabis was the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a neuroscience-inspired AI company, bought by Google in Jan 2014. He is now Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind and leads Google’s general AI efforts.
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Denis Keefe joined the FCO in 1982 and has served in Prague (twice) and Nairobi. He spent 3 years as Ambassador to Georgia before joining the Embassy in Moscow in 2010 as the Minister and Deputy Head of Mission. In London he…
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Denis Keefe has been Ambassador to Serbia since June 2014, following 3 years as Ambassador to Georgia, and 4 years as Minister and Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow. Denis joined the UK Foreign Office in 1982. At the British …
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Dennis Hone was appointed Director of Finance and Corporate Services at the Olympic Delivery Authority ( ODA ) in 2006. He became Chief Executive in February 2011, replacing Sir David Higgins, following his appointment as Ch…
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Dennis has over 25 years’ experience in the nuclear industry with a focus on nuclear operations and low level waste management. He started his career as a start-up (commissioning) engineer with DuPont at the Savannah River S…
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Nigel Holmes became Deputy High Commissioner to the Republic of Cameroon in May 2020. Prior to this, he was the Head of the FCO’s National Security Research Group, which leads for the FCDO in understanding terrorism, extremi…
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Jon O’Shaughnessy is Deputy High Commissioner at the British High Commission in Port of Spain. He previously served as Deputy to the UK Permanent Representative at the Council of Europe and has held diplomatic postings in Bo…
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Oliver Fairlamb is Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Bishkek. He took up his post in May 2025. Oliver joined the Foreign, Commonwealth Office in 2010. He has previously been posted to Ukraine and Moscow, as we…
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Rob Fitzpatrick has been Deputy High Commissioner to Cameroon since September 2023. Prior to Cameroon he has served overseas in Nigeria, South Africa and Afghanistan. In the UK his previous roles include work on Afghanistan,…
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Ben Stride became the UK Deputy High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia in June 2024. Ben joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2003, and has previously been posted to the British High Commission …
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Derek took up his appointment as Acting Consul-General in Ekaterinburg on 29 March 2018. He is a career diplomat, who has undertaken a range of jobs in the UK and around the world including: 2017 British Embassy Moscow, Depu…
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Derek is a professional economist with interests in competition, regulation and public policy. He started his career in the UK Government Economic Service before working for 15 years as a consultant in the London office of m…
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Derek Ross joined the Student Loans Company (SLC) in 1999. He was appointed to the Executive Board in 2001 and since then has held a number of executive roles. He became Director of Operations in 2010. Before joining SLC, De…
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Derek joined the civil service in 1991 as a casual Administrative Officer working in Looe Jobcentre in Cornwall. He had numerous roles in the early part of his career in different offices across Cornwall, working with empl…
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Dharmash was appointed Non-Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Board in February 2024. He left the CMA in August 2025. Dharmash is a venture capitalist, specialising in technology, new business …
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Diana Breeze is the Director of Group HR for Bunzl PLC, the global distribution and outsourcing group. She is a member of their Executive Committee and attends the Remuneration and Nominations Committees. Prior to this, she …
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Diana Brightmore-Armour joined the board of DCLG in February 2011. Career Diana has 30 years of international experience in banking, corporate finance, financial management, treasury and audit, with roles including: Group Tr…
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Diana Dalton took up her role as Deputy High Commissioner and Development Director at the British High Commission in Kenya in early November ’25, where she is responsible for leadership of a range of thematic issues spanning…
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Diane Herbert is a Non-Executive Director at HMRC . She joined Channel 4 as Director of Human Resources in March 2005. As part of the Executive Team, Diane’s role includes Organisation Development, Leadership, 4 Talent, Dive…
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Dianna Melrose has been High Commissioner to the United Republic of Tanzania since February 2013. She is also the UK representative to the East African Community. Dianna was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Cuba between 2008 and …
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Dianne joined the SIA in 2003 as Assistant Director of Compliance and Investigation. She worked in a number of operational roles before taking on the Director of Corporate Services role in April 2013. She was appointed as th…
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Digby Griffith joined the Home Office in 1988. He was appointed as Director, National Operational Services at the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) in 2011. His previous roles include: Director, Offender Management…
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Ms Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam took up the role of Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands in June 2023. Curriculum Vitae Date Role 2023 to present Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands 2017 to 2023 Cabinet Office, Direct…
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Appointed Non-Executive Chair September 2020 Chairman of Investment Committees for the 2020 European Fund for Energy, Climate Change and Infrastructure, and for Marguerite II Fund. Non-Executive Board Director at Canaccord G…
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Ken McCallum is the Director General of the Security Service (also known as MI5). He is an MI5 officer with more than 25 years of experience across the full spectrum of the organisation’s national security and intelligence w…
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Vel has worked for the British Government for over 15 years in various international roles covering defence, development and diplomacy. Immediately prior to coming to Tanzania, he was Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State…
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Michael Walker has been a judicial member of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service Board since April 2011. Michael was appointed as a district judge in April 1994. He has been seconded to the Senior Presiding Judge’s office …
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Tim Jenkins has been a judicial member of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service Board since October 2016. Tim became a solicitor in 1980 and was appointed as a district judge in 1998, having been a deputy district judge sinc…
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ulyan joined the IPO in 1998 as a Patent Examiner. He moved to dealing with IP policy issues in 2000, covering a range of portfolios including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and the World Trade Organisation TRIPs Agreement.…
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Chief Digital Officer (Interim) at Homes England.
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Dominic Field was appointed lead non-executive director at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ( DSIT ) in November 2024. He was previously a non-executive director at DSIT from April to November 2024. Domi…
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Dominic Fortescue was appointed Government Chief Security Officer in January 2019, and is Head of the Government Security Function. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1991 and brings with him a great deal of experience, hav…
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Dominic Herrington was appointed Executive Director for Transforming Delivery Directorate in June 2022. This role sits within His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, which is an Executive Agency sponsored by the Ministry…
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Dominic joined IPO in 2016 as Deputy Director of HR and Organisational Development. Dominic was appointed Acting Director of People, Places and Services in September 2017 before moving into the role on a permanent basis in M…
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Dominic Jermey was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor-Leste in 2023. Dominic’s previous diplomatic postings include serving as HM Ambassador to Afghanistan (2016 to 2017) and to the United Arab Emirate…
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Dominic McAllister is Consul General at the British Consulate-General Wuhan. His principle focus is developing long-term productive UK/China partnerships. Dominic has been a UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office di…
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Dominic Meiklejohn OBE has served as a British diplomat since 1990. He has worked in Poland, Iraq and Albania. Among various roles in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Dominic led Rapid Deployment Teams in Sri L…
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Dominic has 28 years experience in the nuclear industry. He studied chemical engineering at university and worked in the petrochemical industry before moving to Nuclear Electric. Dominic came to DSRL in 2019 to work on the p…
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Dominic O’Neill was previously the Head of DFID in Nepal (2011-13), Sierra Leone (2008-11), Iraq (2007) and Yemen (2003-6). Prior to joining DFID in 2002 he worked in Namibia, Mongolia then Chile with Voluntary Service Overs…
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Dominic joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2006 after training as a barrister and five years in law enforcement. His first job was in the British Embassy Tehran as an Immigration Liaison Officer (2006 to 2008), be…
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Dominic Schroeder was UK Ambassador to Denmark from 2016 to 2020. Previously, he was Ambassador and Head of the United Kingdom’s Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Vienna. Dominic joine…
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Dominic Williams is the current British Ambassador to Cambodia. He joined the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2005 and has previously worked in the Embassy to France; the High Commission to Sri Lanka and the …
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Dominic became Director General Transformation, Ministry of Defence in July 2025. Previously Dominic was Director General at the Northern Ireland Office; and Director General of Security Policy at the the Ministry of Defence…
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Donald Shepherd was appointed Interim Finance and Commercial Director at PHE in July 2019 and is responsible for finance, estates, procurement, business development, ICT and Digital services. Donald was previously Deputy Dir…