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Fiona Mettam is the Director of the Scotland Office, having taken up that role in August 2025 and her office base being in Edinburgh. Immediately prior to joining the Scotland Office she was Director of Energy Development at…
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Fiona Morrison took up her present position as Chargé d’affaires in Haiti in Jan 2016. She joined the FCO as a graduate entrant. Her first posting was as Political Officer to the UK’s Delegation to NATO in 1991. She was then…
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Fiona Robertson was Head of Litigation Division in the Office of the Advocate General from 01 July 2006 to 14 January 2022. Fiona joined the Office of the Advocate General in 1999, transferring from Crown Office & Procur…
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Fiona Ross was a Non-Executive Director at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency from June 2014 to June 2019. Fiona is the Chief Executive at Siario, a digital healthcare company in Ireland. She had previously completed 2 …
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Fiona Ryland was appointed Government Chief People Officer for the Civil Service in September 2022. Fiona has over 25 years experience in strategy and human resources (HR) roles across both the public and private sectors, jo…
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Fiona Spencer is the Director of Function, Profession & Standards at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. Fiona was previously interim Director General, Capabilities and Resources, and before that Chief Portfolio O…
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Fiona Walker Doyle is His Majesty’s Deputy Head of Mission to the Kingdom of Bahrain, promoting relations between the UK and Bahrain, and supporting British interests in the Kingdom. Fiona joined the former Foreign and Commo…
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Fiona was appointed as the Interim Director of Corporate Services in January 2025. Before this post, Fiona was the Interim Director of Transformation (July 2024 to January 2025) and the Head of Strategy and Governance (Octob…
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Fiona-Jane MacGregor joined the Shareholder Executive in October 2012. Fiona-Jane is a Chartered Accountant by training, joining RBS in 1993 in its Specialised Lending Services team in Edinburgh. Before joining the Sharehold…
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Flavia was appointed Deputy Director (Communications) of the Scotland Office in May 2015. Following graduation from Edinburgh University in 2000, Flavia has worked for the private sector and charitable sector, working from o…
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Fleur Anderson was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office between 9 July 2024 and 7 September 2025. She was elected as the MP for Putney in 2019, re-elected in July 2024, and previously served …
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Fleur Thomas was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on 21 April 2021, after presenting her credentials to HRH Grand Duke Henri. She previously held the post of Head of Exports in the Ministry…
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Fouzia Younis took up her position as British Consul General to Toronto in April 2023. Before her posting in Toronto, Fouzia was Communication Director for the Pakistan Network, as well as the Co-Chair of the FCDO Race Netwo…
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Fran Bennett had an academic teaching and research post in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, for over 20 years and is now Emeritus Fellow. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social S…
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Prominent insolvency expert Frances Coulson is one of our non-executive board members. Frances is a practicing lawyer, with more than 26 years of experience in insolvency law, and a senior partner, board member and Head of I…
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Frances is a Managing Director and has extensive in-depth knowledge of major project development across a suite of infrastructure sectors. For over a decade she was responsible for advising the government on whether to gran…
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Having worked at the Bank of England since 2000, Frances Hill has been the Bank’s Agent for Northern Ireland since 2008. In this role, she undertakes one-to-one confidential conversations with hundreds of businesses and comm…
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Frances O’Grady joined the TUC as Campaigns Officer in 1994. She moved up through a variety of positions including heading up the TUC’s organisation department, and was appointed Deputy General Secretary in 2003. In January …
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Frances Wadsworth CBE has served as a Deputy Further Education Commissioner since May 2018. She also served a 6 month term as Interim Further Education Commissioner in 2021. Frances has worked in the education sector for ove…
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Frances is a senior leader and regulatory expert with almost 30 years experience working across the public and private sectors. Her experience includes working as a Competition Investigation Director at the OFT, as a Directo…
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Francesca was educated in Cumbria and at Cambridge University where she obtained an MA in economics. She also received an MA in European Economics from the College of Europe in Bruges. Having joined the civil service as an e…
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Francesca Stidston became acting country representative for DFID Uganda in September 2018. She joined DFID in 2008 working in the Secretary of States’ private office. Since then she has worked on the delivery of the Millenni…
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Francis Campbell was the British Deputy High Commissioner, Karachi and the Director, Trade and Investment for Pakistan from 2011 to 2013. He was born on April 20, 1970 and has a BA in Political Science and Scholastic Philoso…
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Francis Dobbyn has been a member of the HM Courts and Tribunals Service Board since 2011. Francis is also a member of the Review Board for Government Contracts . His previous roles include: Non-Executive Director and Audit C…
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Frank Baker was UK ambassador to Libya from February 2018 to April 2019. Before this appointment he was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Iraq from 2014 to 2017. Baker joined FCO in 1981 in the Personal Operations Department and h…
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Frank served as a Non-Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Board between 21 February 2024 and 2 April 2025. Frank is Chair of the Board of Gen Digital (ex-NortonLifeLock, consumer cybersafety) an…
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Frank Green took the post of national Schools Commissioner on 1 February 2014. In this role he helped to raise standards, manage underperformance and promote the growth of academies, academy sponsors and free schools.
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Frank joined the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in February 2017. He has responsibility for security, cyber, information governance, ICT, the CEO’s Office, the Project Management Office and the provision of other Co…
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Frederic holds a master’s in engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon and an MBA from Insead. After a short commission in the French Hydrographic Service he spent his early career in field based roles in the upstream oil and …
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Frederick Robinson Viscount Goderich served as Prime Minister between 1827 to 1828. Read more about the life and achievements of Frederick Robinson Viscount Goderich in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Freya Guinness is Director General for Corporate Services and Chief Operating Officer at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ( DSIT ). Freya was Director General for Corporate Services at the Department for…
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Gabriel joined Ocado Technology in 2020 as Chief Data Officer, bringing over 10 years’ experience leading data science teams and helping organisations realise the value of their data. At Ocado Technology, his role is to help…
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Gaenor Bagley was a Non Executive Director at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from May 2018 to August 2020. Gaenor has a particular interest in talent management and leadership development within international organisa…
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As an HR and transformation professional, Gaenor has worked both nationally and internationally at senior levels in the private sector for over 15 years. Her career has included a range of roles across HR and business transf…
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Gagan Mohindra was Assistant Government Whip from 18 September 2023 to 5 July 2024.
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Gail Cartmail is an Assistant General Secretary (AGS) at Unite the Union. Her main role is to lead the union’s construction, energy, finance and public service teams, campaigning for better terms and conditions for members i…
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Gaon Hart was appointed as the Immigration Services Commissioner for the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA) on 12 December 2025. Gaon brings extensive experience across regulatory assurance, enforcement, anti‑human trafficki…
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Gareth Bacon was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice between 13 November 2023 and 5 July 2024.
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Gareth Bayley was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt from May 2021 to August 2025. Gareth was the Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Foreign, Commonwealth & …
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Gareth Beaumont has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Asunción since March 2024. Prior to this, Gareth worked in a range of policy roles at the FCDO and the Home Office, including in national security and…
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Gareth Davies is Permanent Secretary of the Department for Business and Trade. Previously he was Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Trade. Gareth has also been the Second Permanent Secretary and a Direct…
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Gareth Davies was Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury between 21 April 2023 and 5 July 2024. Previously, Gareth was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in November 2022, and ser…
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Gareth Gregory is Acting Chief Finance Officer for the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and a member of the DBS board. Gareth is also the Director for Finance at the Disclosure and Barring Service. He took on this role i…
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Gareth Hoar was appointed British High Commissioner to Samoa in April 2023 . Before this, he was the British Consul-General in Wuhan from 2018 to 2022. Gareth joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1984, first…
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Gareth Johnson was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice between 20 September 2022 and 27 October 2022. He was previously Lord Commissioner (Government Whip) from 9 February 2022 to 20 September …
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Gareth joined Companies House in April 2007 as Chief Executive and Registrar of Companies. Prior to this Gareth was Director for Environment, Planning and Countryside at the Welsh Assembly Government. In a long and varied ca…
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Gareth has been Chief Information Officer at the Financial Conduct Authority since 2009. Gareth currently serves as the Chief Information Officer for the Financial Conduct Authority and has previously worked in senior positi…
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Gareth Llewellyn was the Chief Executive of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ) from April 2016 to December 2020. Before joining DVSA , Gareth: was the Group Safety, Technical and Engineering Director for Networ…