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Hamza Yusuf was appointed interim Head of the Corporate Centre in September 2019. His career started in the Civil Service as a grade 6 in the Department for Communities and Local Government. Before working in central governm…
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Hannah joined UKGI in 2017 and leads the UKGI Special Situations team. The Special Situations team combines civil servants and restructuring/insolvency professionals who focus on sectors and corporates where there is the ris…
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Hannah joined HMPPS in October 2019 to establish a new Reducing Reoffending Directorate, building on her experience of strategic policy making, cross-Government and local partnership working and programme delivery. Her direc…
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Hannah was appointed as Chair of the SSRO on 3 January 2022. She is also Chair of the Retail Energy Code Company and holds non-executive director positions at the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), Worldpay UK and the Nation…
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Hannah Payne has a shared role with Jo Fiddian as Head of Transformation at the Legal Aid Agency ( LAA ). Her previous roles include: Head of Contract Management and Assurance, LAA – 6 months cover Head of Service Developmen…
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Hannah Rignell and Sarah Baker are Deputy Directors of the Disability Unit in Cabinet Office (job share). The Disability Unit aims to works across government to deliver the National Disability Strategy and to improve the liv…
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Hannah was appointed as a non-executive director of the SIA in March 2025. Career Hannah has 20 years’ experience in community safety, security, and crime prevention, with a proven track record of delivering strategic change…
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Hannah Woodhouse was Regional Director for South West from September 2019 to January 2024. Before her appointment, Hannah was the Deputy Director within the South West region. Earlier in her career, she also worked in school…
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Hannah Young was the Consul General at the British Consulate General, New York from January 2024 to November 2024. She previously served as Deputy Consul General to New York. Hannah joined from Number 10, where she was the P…
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Harjinder Kang is His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for South Asia and the British Deputy High Commissioner for Western India. He was appointed in May 2023. Prior to his appointment, Harjinder was the UK’s Chief Negotiator fo…
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Harjit was appointed to the Education and Skills Agency’s Management Board and as chair of its Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) in November 2023. Harjit is also a member of the Department for Education’s ARC. Harjit is an expe…
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Harold is Senior Assistant Director, Investigation and Enforcement at the Regulator of Social Housing.
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Harold Freeman is an experienced public sector board member, international economic and development expert. Working on sustainable development goals and the climate change agenda he has worked on multiple projects investing …
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Harold Macmillan served as Prime Minister between 1957 to 1963. Read more about the life and achievements of Harold Macmillan in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Harold Wilson served as Prime Minister between 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976. Read more about the life and achievements of Harold Wilson in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Harriet is the Chief Executive of the Government Internal Audit Agency, which is the largest delivery agent of internal audit services to central government departments and their Arm’s Length Bodies. She is also Head of the …
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Harriet Aldridge has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) since December 2023. She previously worked at PwC for over 20 years, leaving as a director to join the civil service. He…
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Harriet Cross was appointed Governor of Montserrat in January 2025 and started the role in April 2025. Harriet has been a member of the UK Diplomatic Service for 23 years. She was the High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago…
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Harriet Kelsall is one of the most respected bespoke designers and business trailblazers working in the UK jewellery industry today. She founded her multi-award winning business from her kitchen table in 1998 and then starte…
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Harriet has experience across a wide range of executive, non-executive and chair roles, across public, private and not for profit sectors. She has a background as a senior HR leader specialising in remuneration, spanning som…
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Harriet King has been Deputy Head of Mission since June 2014, having joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 2002, and has been based in London for the majority of her career. Curriculum vitae Full name: Harriet …
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Harriet Mathews is Director General, Africa, the Americas and Overseas Territories at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). Harriet was previously Deputy Political Director from January to July 2023 and …
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Harriet Thompson is the British High Commissioner for Ghana, arriving in June 2021, and is also the Non-Resident Ambassador to Benin and Non-Resident High Commissioner to Togo. Before her arrival in Ghana, Ms Thompson was th…
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Harriett Baldwin was Minister of State for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister of State at the Department for International Development from 9 January 2018 to 25 July 2019. She was elected as the MP fo…
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Harry MacDonald took up his appointment as High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Lesotho in September 2022. Prior to this appointment he was Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Co…
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Harry Rich is Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists, governor of the Glasgow School of Art, an executive coach and business advisor. He is a non-practising solicitor, Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and Fellow of…
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Harshbir is Missions and Capabilities Delivery Director for Earth Observation and Low-Earth Orbit Assets at the UK Space Agency. Harshbir joined the UK Space Agency in December 2018 to lead the Copernicus (EU Earth Observati…
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A microbiologist by training, Harvey joined the Environment Agency (EA) and its predecessors in 1985. He was the EA’s Executive Director of Environment and Business from September 2015 to October 2022. Before this he was the…
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Harvey is currently the aviation activity officer at the British Disabled Flying charity Aerobility, but his prospects did not always look that promising. Born with cerebral palsy, caused by complications at birth, Harvey’s …
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Hayley Kelly started as Chief People Officer of the Planning Inspectorate in April 2024. She comes to this role from UK Export Finance where she led cross-cutting HR projects, prior to that she was Head of People for the UK …
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Hazel Mowbray was Deputy Head of Mission and Consul General at the British Embassy Khartoum from July 2021 to June 2023. Hazel is a career diplomat. Previous postings have included Iraq (Head of Political Section) and Ethiop…
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Heather was appointed as Chair of the SIA on 7 June 2021. Career Heather has spent the majority of her professional career in policing, initially with the Metropolitan Police Service and later with Hertfordshire Constabulary…
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Heather Hancock was announced as lead non-executive board member for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 21 July 2023. Heather Hancock is the Master of St John’s College in the University of Cambridge a…
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Heather James has been a member of Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) since 2009. She is a Planning Consultant specialising in community consultation and engagement. Heather is also Chair of Brighton Fring…
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Heather Lawrence was appointed as a Non-Executive Director at Monitor on 1 July 2012. Heather has 23 years’ experience as a CEO. From 2000 to 2012 she was CEO of Chelsea and Westminster hospital which gained NHS Foundation T…
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Heather McNaughton joined the civil service over 20 years ago doing a variety of roles at the Ministry of Defence. Working as a jobshare with Caroline Pusey , she delivered transformational change to modernise the terms, con…
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Heather Rabbatts (CBE) is a qualified Barrister and has held a number of senior executive positions across the public sector, sport and broadcasting. After more than a decade as a CEO of local authorities, which included a t…
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Heather worked previously at BAE SYSTEMS and AREVA and has vast experience working within the manufacturing, oil, gas and mining sectors in the UK , Europe and the USA. She has a master’s degree in HR Management and has been…
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Heather Savory joined the HMPPS as a Non-Executive Board Member and Chair of the HMPPS Audit and Risk Assurance Committee on 20 May 2021. Heather Savory has 30 years’ experience in the public and private sector. She currentl…
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Heather is a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defence. She is a finance professional who has worked in various locations in the UK.
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Heather Wheeler was Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office between 8 February 2022 and 8 September 2022. She was an Assistant Government Whip, from 8 February 2022 to 8 July 2022. She was a Parliamentary Under Secreta…
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Hedvig Ljungerud is responsible for the North Sea Transition Authority’s ( NSTA ) policy, performance, economics and communication and external affairs teams. She joined the NSTA in June 2015 from HM Revenue and Customs, hav…
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Helen is a planning lawyer with long experience in private practice within major law firms and subsequently as a Director in the Infrastructure Planning Commission and the Inspectorate; she has also worked as an Inspector ex…
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Helen Aston become a non-executive director at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ) in February 2024. Helen is a Chartered Accountant. She worked for PwC for 15 years in transaction services, restructuring and pe…
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Helen was the Director of Communication at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from January 2019 to February 2023. She was previously Official Spokesperson to the Prime Minister, a role she took on in June 201…
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Following almost 21 years in the NHS - which Helen joined as a Regional Finance Management Trainee in 1992 - she joined Monitor, the healthcare sector regulator whose responsibilities transferred to NHS Improvement on 1 Apri…
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Helen Campbell is the Director of Strategy, Performance and Assurance at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. Helen joins the IPA from National Grid where she held the position of Director of Strategy and Performance, …
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Helen started her career with Sellafield Ltd, joining the graduate trainee scheme in 2004. She worked in a range of low level waste projects and technical management roles before joining LLW Repository Ltd in May 2012. Helen…