Skip to main content

All ministers and senior officials on GOV.UK

5,607 people
  • Gerard Connell is Non-executive Director, Board to HM Land Registry. He has over 30 years executive experience in strategic, financial and operational roles in industry and the City at: Wincanton Unigate Bankers Trust Compan…

  • Gerry has a long history in Cumbria and served as a Board Director of Gen 2 Apprentice Training Company for four years as well as Non-Executive Director of Britain’s Energy Coast and Director of NMP Limited. He was Senior Vi…

  • Gerry Murphy was a non-executive board member of the Department of Health and Social Care from 2014 to July 2024. He also chaired its Audit and Risk Committee. He is a co-opted member of the NHS England audit and risk assura…

  • Gerry Murphy became Chief Operating Officer of the Olympic Delivery Authority ( ODA ) on 1 April 2013. She joined the ODA as Head of Finance in January 2009 and became its Director of Finance in February 2011. Gerry was prev…

  • Gerry joined High Speed Two ( HS2 ) as HR Director in May 2017 and is responsible for the design, development and implementation of the strategic people strategy of HS2 . Gerry’s key areas of focus are to ensure that the nec…

  • Geth has worked for the Wales Office since 2007, specialising in constitutional matters and legislation. He joined the Civil Service in 1992, having previously worked for BT. His posts in the Civil Service have included: Bil…

  • Gideon Dewhirst joined as Deputy Ambassador to Czech Republic in April 2018. Curriculum Vitae 2015 - 2018 FCO, Head of Strategic Engagement, Campaigns & Engagement Department 2013 - 2015 FCO, Head of Team, Mediterranean …

  • Giles joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in 2004. He has served in various diplomatic Posts overseas, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, and Mauritania. He has also worked …

  • Giles Lever was HM Ambassador to the Republic of Sudan from 2021 to 2024. Mr Lever joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1990 and has worked in a wide range of roles, including in Africa, on the Middle East a…

  • Mr Giles Portman took up the position of His Majesty’s Ambassador to Romania in October 2023. Dates Role 2021 to 2022 FCDO , Director Europe, Europe Directorate 2020 to 2021 FCDO , Director EU Exit, Europe Directorate 2019 t…

  • Giles Paxman was the British Ambassador to Spain 2009 to 2013. He was born in 1951. He studied at Oxford University before joining the Department of the Environment on its creation in 1974. After transferring to the Diplomat…

  • Giles Whitaker was Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Tehran from November 2018 to December 2021. After studying for a degree in History & Politics, Giles joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 198…

  • Gill joined HMRC in 2014. She advises HMRC and HM Treasury and is responsible for all aspects of tax law, leading a large litigation team, which safeguards billions of pounds worth of tax revenues. From 2010 to 2014 Gill was…

  • Gill Atkinson was appointed her Majesty’s Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria in Abuja in July 2019. Prior to this appointment, she was, for a short period, the acting Deputy High Commissioner to Bangladesh. Gill Atkinson st…

  • Gill is a Commercial Director who has worked within the Defence, Aerospace and Transport Industries for 25 years.  She has been responsible for leading teams for bidding and delivering complex programmes involving national a…

  • Curriculum Vitae Ms Gill Fraser, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Paris Gill Fraser was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in Scotland and has been a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since 2002. Prior to joining th…

  • Gill is an experienced career diplomat.  She has worked in a diverse range of roles in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, now Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, in London. These include Head of Overseas Health an…

  • Gill is a career diplomat. Previous postings have included Romania, India and Japan. She has also worked in the voluntary sector, establishing child drowning prevention programmes (she is a qualified swimming teacher and ope…

  • Gillian Arthur joined the Export Guarantee Advisory Council (EGAC) in April 2009. Gillian was previously head of philanthropy services at Sanne Group, which specialises in the provision of offshore management and control and…

  • After graduating from the University of Newcastle (1997), Gillian joined Bank of Scotland where she spent the first 7 years of her now 25 year career in Financial Services.  She progressed from the graduate programme into th…

  • Gillian was appointed to the GLD Board on 2 October 2017. She is currently a Senior Independent Director of Wessex Water, the Chair of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, and is also Pro-Chancellor of the Univers…

  • Gillian Hillier was appointed as Chief Executive of the Standards and Testing Agency in August 2021. Her previous roles include: Director of Careers and Further Education, Department for Education Deputy Director, School Imp…

  • Gillian McGregor took up post as Director on 12 October 2017. Prior to that she has held various roles in the Home Office since 1985 starting as an immigration caseworker in Croydon. Most recently, in May 2013, she was appoi…

  • Gillian Smith joined the Independent Living Fund as the Head of Human Resources in December 2010. Gillian’s career has mainly been with the Civil Service, having joined the Department for Health and Social Security in 1980. …

  • Gillian Wilmot is an experienced Chairman and Non-Executive Director following an executive career as a Marketing Director then a CEO . She was recognised for governance excellence in the 2014 Sunday Times Non-Executive Dire…

  • Gina Coladangelo is Marketing and Communications Director at Oliver Bonas, an independent British lifestyle retailer with over 80 stores in the UK and Ireland. Gina has over 20 years’ experience in communications and marketi…

  • Ginny took the role of Board Director for Strategy and Planning of Highways England on 1 April 2015. Prior to this, Ginny was Board Director for Strategy and Planning for the Highways Agency from September 2013 and Chief Hig…

  • Ginny is a career diplomat who joined the Diplomatic Service in 1987 having worked previously for Leicestershire County Council and the UK Immigration Service. She has served in a number of roles in various overseas postings…

  • Giovanbattista has 15 years’ experience in the nuclear sector. He is currently the Deputy Managing Director and Head of Engineering for Orano in the UK and is a Board member on the ADAPT DDP Board for a major decommissioning…

  • Glenn Houston has been a Non-Executive Director of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Board since January 2017. Glenn has 38 years experience of working in health and social care in Northern Ireland. He is a qualified …

  • Glenn was appointed Deputy Director (Home, Social & Domestic Affairs) of the Scotland Office, in July 2013. Prior to joining the Scotland Office, Glenn worked most recently as the Deputy Director for Information Rights a…

  • Gleny Lovell was Chief Officer Business Management and Change from February 2019 to January 2023. Gleny has spent most of her career in the private sector mainly in large scale change programme leadership and management cons…

  • Glyn has worked for more than 35 years in tax and is a chartered accountant as well as a chartered tax adviser. He held Head of Tax roles at 4 UK-quoted FTSE companies. He has been active as a volunteer at the Chartered Inst…

  • A career civil servant, Glynne Jones has worked alongside Ministers for almost 20 years. He has been the Director of the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales since January 2013, helping deliver some of the milestones i…

  • Goran was appointed Deputy High Commissioner to Mauritius in January 2024. Goran began his career with the British government in 1999. He initially worked at the Department of Trade and Industry, followed by HM Treasury in a…

  • Gordon Frisby is an accomplished global Finance Director with over 25 years of senior management experience. His career began at BDO Binder before moving to Black & Decker Corporation in Germany and Switzerland, where he…

  • Gordon More is Interim Chief Executive Officer for Homes England. He was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer in February 2021. Gordon joined Homes England in May 2014 and previously worked as Head of Investments on …

  • Gordon joined Homes England in May 2014 as Head of Investments (on secondment from Lloyds Banking Group) before taking on the permanent role of Chief Investment Officer in 2017. Before this, he was Managing Director of the B…

  • Gordon had an extensive career in banking in the UK and the USA before joining UK Export Finance. Gordon also spent three years with Airbus in its customer sales financing team before taking a year’s secondment to work with …

  • Graeme joined the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) in 2023 from the Security Industry Authority. Before that he worked in a number of sectors including central government, local government, the third sector and private …

  • Graeme first joined the MHRA in 2011 and has spent much of his time at the MHRA negotiating, and now implementing, a package of measures to strengthen the regulation of medical devices. Graeme has been a civil servant for 15…

  • Graeme Wilkinson is currently the Finance Director in the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Graeme specialises in change management projects and …

  • Graham Archer served as Interim Director General at the Department for Education from November 2022 to October 2023. He was in charge of Families Group from May to October 2023, and Strategy Group from November 2022 to May 2…

  • Graham has more than 20 years’ experience within the MOD working in Dstl and its predecessor organisations where he has held a variety of technical and leadership roles. Prior to taking up this role he spent over 5 years as …

  • Graham Dalton became Chief Executive of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation in October 2016, following eight years as Chief Executive of Highways England and its predecessor, the Highways Agency. Graham is a chartered ci…

  • Graham Farrant was Chief Executive and Chief Land Registrar from 1 June 2015 to 31 December 2018. Graham has considerable experience in both the private and public sectors, most recently as Chief Executive of Thurrock Counci…

  • Graham is Director of Planning and Development at Active Travel England. He joined the agency in November 2022. Formerly Assistant Director for Transport at Newcastle City Council, Graham has 15 years’ experience working in …

  • Graham Horne joined the Insolvency Service in 1976. He has led the service as Interim Chief Executive twice and was pivotal in introducing new electronic ways of working to enhance efficiency. His previous roles within the I…