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In September 2012, Jo Swinson became Minister for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Women and Equalities Minister. She was elected as the Liberal Democrat MP …
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Jo Symons, Director Change and Development joined the Management Board in February 2010. Her previous roles within NMO include: Director Technical Services Communications business team manager Project lead for Weights and Me…
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Joan Aitken was the Scottish Prison Complaints Commissioner (Ombudsman) from 1999 until her appointment as a Traffic Commissioner. Career Joan has served as a part time chairman of employment tribunals, disability appeal tri…
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Joan Ingram graduated from Dundee University in 1981, with an MA in Politics and Jurisprudence. Joan then embarked on a career as a journalist, becoming one of Scotland’s leading television politics presenters; hosting a var…
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Joanna Averley is the government’s Chief Planner and Head of the Planning Profession, based in the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government. She advises ministers on policy and practice relating to town and count…
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Jo Crellin became Director General, Domestic and International Markets and Exports at the Department for Business and Trade in March 2024. She also became an ex officio member of the UK Export Finance Board in March 2024 upo…
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Joanna Davinson was previously Interim Government Chief Digital Officer, from December 2024 to September 2025, with overarching leadership responsibility for the digital centre. Joanna was previously the Head of Profession o…
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Joanna Key is Director General, Regeneration, Housing and Planning at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Joanna was previously Director of Growth and Infrastructure at HM Treasury and Director for Dom…
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Joanna Kuenssberg was Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Lisbon since August 2010. She was Chargé d’Affaires between January to May 2011, before the arrival of Ambassador Jill Gallard. She was appointed High Co…
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Joanna Markbreiter is the Deputy British Ambassador and Development Counsellor to Liberia. Joanna’s previous roles include: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Protracted Crisis Advisor, Nigeria. Department for Int…
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Joanna is People Director at the UK Space Agency. She provides Human Resources (HR) advice to the Agency executive committee and senior leadership team and leads on the Agency’s People Strategy to provide senior oversight fo…
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Joanna was Head of DFID Pakistan from December 2015 to September 2019 and managed DFID ’s largest bilateral programme there. She was formerly Head of DFID Sudan where she managed DFID ’s humanitarian and development programm…
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Joanna Roper CMG was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands in October 2020. Previously, Joanna was the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Special Envoy for Gender Equality from April 2017 unti…
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Joanna took up her role as Director General for the Customer Services Group at the Home Office on 8 January 2024. Joanna had previously served as Director General for Transformation at HMRC, heading the Transformation Busine…
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Joanna Wallace was appointed to the role of Independent Case Examiner in April 2013. Her previous roles include: Chief Executive of the Christie NHS Trust Manchester Director of Spire Manchester Hospital lay member of the Se…
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Joanna Whittington became Director General, Energy and Security at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) on 8 October 2018. Joanna was the Chief Executive Officer at the Office of Rail and Road (…
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Joanne Adamson OBE (Known as Jo) HM Ambassador, Bamako, Mali since August 2014 Ms Adamson joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1989. She has served in Cairo, Jerusalem, at the UK Mission to the UN in New York, Washi…
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Joanne joined the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) in September 2022 as Director of Audit for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Prior to joining the GIAA, Joanne was Director of Audit within AuditOne, an NHS…
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Joanne is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) with fifteen years’ experience of finance in local government in county and unitary authorities and three years’ experience as a Civil S…
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Joanne Cappa-Gunduz joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2003. She worked in London on UK-Japan relations before moving to Europe Directorate for the 2005 UK Presidency of the EU. Her first posting was to Vilnius, L…
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Joanne (Jo) Freeman is the Consul General for Queensland & Northern Territory and Director of Trade for Australia & New Zealand at the UK’s Department for International Trade. Most recently, Jo worked as the Deputy C…
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Joanne Kelland-Owen is the Interim HR & Organisational Development Director at the Disclosure and Barring Service. Joanne became the Interim Executive Director of Technology and Innovation at DBS in February 2025
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Joanne Olivier was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on 23 April 2025, after presenting her credentials to HRH Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume. Joanne has served in a wide range of roles in …
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Before joining Dstl , Joanne worked in the Judicial Office where she was the HR Director for the Judiciary of England and Wales. During this time she led on the development of a modern workforce strategy for the judiciary an…
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Joanne Prowse joined the Charity Commission as a board member in November 2019. Jo is the Chief Executive and a Board member of the Phone-paid Services Authority (PSA), the UK regulator for content, goods and services charge…
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Joanne was appointed Chief Regulatory Officer in June 2022. Joanne is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified accountants who qualified with the MoD working across the Commercial Function. She has subsequently wor…
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In his current role as Group Retail, Ecommerce, Customer Service and Loss Prevention Director for TJX Europe, his passion and advocacy has driven the implementation of apprenticeship schemes and training programmes. His supp…
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Joe was appointed as HMRC Interim Chief People Officer with direct responsibility for HR, in August 2016 and was previously Director of HR Policy and Operations. He came to HMRC in 2013 from the Home Office, which he joined …
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Joe Preston has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Kosovo since October 2010. He started his career in the early 80’s and served with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in Migration & Visa Depar…
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Joe White MBE was the UK Technology Envoy to the US between 2020 and 2024. He also worked previously as a Silicon Valley based entrepreneur and investor. He has served as: General Partner of Entrepreneur First, a Greylock ba…
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Joel Bamford was appointed Executive Director for Mergers at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on 12 February 2024. On 1 July 2024 he became Executive Director for Mergers, Office for the Internal Market and Subsid…
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John Abbott became Director of Digital, Data and Technology for HM Land Registry in January 2016. Before joining HM Land Registry, John was: Head of Digital Products at Ordnance Survey Product Director at Mimecast Head of In…
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John Alty was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and member of the Board of the Trade Remedies Authority in January 2025. John is also a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics European Institut…
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John Baxter CBE is a Non-Executive Director at Sellafield Ltd. He is also a Non-Executive Director at Drax plc. He has worked in the energy industry for over 40 years covering nuclear, electricity and latterly oil and gas. H…
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John Black has worked for LGC since 2008 and joined the Government Chemist programme in 2020. John also manages the Chemical & Biological Metrology programme, delivered as part of the UK National Measurement System (NMS)…
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John was the resident Infrastructure Adviser for the Department for International Development (DFID) on Montserrat. He took up this role in January 2015. Prior to that he was based in Glasgow working for the DFID Overseas Te…
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John Hughes was appointed non-executive director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC) of the Trade Remedies Authority in June 2021. He is also a non-executive director and specialist adviser to companie…
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John Cameron-Webb started working at the Consulate as Visa/Passport assistant in July 1988. He was promoted to Assistant Management Officer in 1992 running Consulate budget, HR and Estate Maintenance. In 2002 he was appointe…
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John Campbell joined the CNPA Board in July 2025. He spent 34 years in policing and is the former Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police. In addition to his role as Chief Constable, he was also actively involved in the UK’s…
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John Carter, Planning and Performance Director for the Rural Payments Agency, joined the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) in July 2011.
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John Casson was the British Ambassador to Egypt from August 2014 until August 2018. Previously he was the Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Private Secretary from 2010 to 2014. He received a CMG in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday H…
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John was appointed as chair of Companies House from 1 March 2023. He is a recognised leader in strategy, innovation and delivering large-scale digital-enabled transformations, global business services, digital, data, analyti…
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John held the position of CEO and Accounting Officer from April 2012 to February 2017, having joined the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s Board in 2008 initially as Commercial Director and subsequently as Business Plannin…
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John Coffey served as a Non-Executive Director of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from September 2020 to April 2025. John has 4 decades’ experience in the financial services sector. This includes 7 years a…
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John has been an integral part of our Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme since 2016. Before joining the programme, John was in the Royal Navy with a 30 year nuclear engineering career as a submariner. In his last …
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John worked in a variety of strategic and operational roles in the Environment Agency, including: Chief Executive Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management Director of Incident Management and Resilience Area Di…
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John Davie has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Asunción since June 2020. Prior to this, John worked in a joint FCO and Home Office unit focusing on international counter terrorism, after having served i…
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John Davies is an independent economist specialising in the economics of competition and regulation. He has been Chief Economist of the UK Competition Commission, founding Executive Director of the Competition Commission of …
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John Dennis was Representative at the British Office in Taipei (2021-2024). He was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Angola from February 2014 until February 2018. John joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (fo…
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John Denore has been with the Independent Living Fund as Director and Head of Operations since 2005. John has spent 23 years in operations. His previous roles include: Programme Manager and Regional Manager for the Big Lotte…