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John Derrick is Deputy Director in the Global Talent Taskforce ( GTT ). The GTT seeks to attract the world’s exceptional talent to relocate to the UK, supporting the success of our Industrial Strategy growth-driving sectors.…
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John Doddrell was Her Majesty’s Consul General in Sao Paulo and Director for UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) in Brazil from 2010 to 2014. Previously as Director of Strategy at UKTI he developed an ambitious new strategy tha…
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John Dowie was appointed Acting Director General of Roads, Traffic and Local Group at the Department for Transport from May 2015. Career John joined the civil service in 1989 and in addition to working at the Department for …
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John Drake is Chief Commercial Counsel for Bird and Bird LLP, where he is in charge of several change programmes, having been Chief Operating Officer for 7 years until 2015. A qualified barrister, most of John’s career was i…
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John Duncan was appointed Governor of the British Virgin Islands in June 2013 and took up his post in August 2014. Previously, he was sworn in as Acting Governor of the Falkland Islands on February 27 for a period of approxi…
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John Edwards served as the Director General, Regions Group at the Department for Education from 13 June 2022 to 20 June 2025. He began his career as a teacher of mathematics and senior leader in secondary schools, before mov…
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John Edwards was appointed as a Director at the Office for Investment in May 2024. Prior to this, he was Director International Strategy and Trade Relations at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). Prior to that, John…
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John’s previous roles include: Head, Procurement, Olympic Delivery Authority management consultant, Mouchel various positions at Crown Agents
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John Fitzpatrick is the Digital Operations Director for the Government Digital Service (GDS), and was appointed in October 2024 on an interim basis. The Digital Operations Director looks after the day-to-day operations that …
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Mr John Gallagher was His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia from 2021 to 2025. Curriculum Vitae Dates Role 2021 to 2025 Yerevan, Ambassador 2019 to 2021 Buenos Aires, Deputy Head of Mission 2015 to 2019 Buenos …
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John Glennie was the NHS Borders Chief Executive 2003-2009. He was Chief Executive of Borders General Hospital NHS Trust from 1995-2003, and before that Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance of Central Manchester He…
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John’s move into the nuclear industry came 17 years ago, after graduating with a degree in Chemistry and spending the opening five years of his career as an analytical chemist. Following his career switch he first moved into…
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John Grierson began his nuclear industry career as an apprentice electrician at Chapelcross site, where he later became site director. Over nearly four decades, John has held a variety of roles, including operations manager …
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John Hamilton was recently appointed Resident British Commissioner at the British High Commission in St John’s. Before St John’s he worked at the British Embassy in Turkmenistan as the Deputy Head of Mission. John has spent…
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John Hannett became a Low Pay Commissioner on 1 May 2007 and was reappointed for 4 years on 1 January 2011. He is General Secretary of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and a member of ACAS. John also sits o…
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John Harley (appointed in 2013) is a former Senior Partner at Ernst & Young LLP (EY) and up to June 2000, PricewaterhouseCoopers. He retired in February 2011 from EY having been Global Head of Private Equity and previous…
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John Henderson was the Chief Executive of Staffordshire County Council for over eight years, during which time he worked to improve the delivery of public services for the county’s residents. Prior to this, he served for 3…
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John Humphrey is His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa. He was appointed in June 2022. Prior to joining the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), John was the Group Chief Executive Officer of Kent HoldCo Limited (KH…
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John Ingham has been a Deputy Official Solicitor since September 2012 and a senior lawyer since 2006 in the Official Solicitor’s civil litigation team. His previous roles include: working in private practice (15 years) worki…
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John Kennedy is the interim Regional Director for London and took on this role in June 2015. John was appointed His Majesty’s Inspector (HMI) in 2006 and has been a Senior HMI in the London region since January 2013 and befo…
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John Kirkland was a non-executive member of the Department for Transport Board from 10 June 2013 to 17 June 2016. John is Chairman of the Bowmer and Kirkland Group of Companies, one of the largest privately owned constructio…
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John is jointly responsible for leading multidisciplinary teams delivering trade remedies investigation within TRID. He started his career as a civil servant doing a variety of policy, private office, operational, strategy a…
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John was Director of Overseas Territories at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) from December 2016 until June 2017. In that role, he was Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory and Commissioner of the Brit…
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John Krumins (appointed in 2013) is a banker with over 20 years’ experience in mergers and acquisitions in domestic and international markets. He has also worked extensively on capital raising and restructuring, in both the …
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John was appointed as a member of the School Teachers’ Review Body in 2017 and the Audit and Risk Committee of the Education and Skills Funding Agency in 2018. In 2023 John was made a member of the ESFA Management Board. His…
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John Lamont was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland from 27 October 2022 to 5 July 2024.
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John joined HMCTS as Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) in March 2020. Previously, he was interim CIO for the Government of Jersey overseeing the development of a £100m digital transformation programme. He has work…
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John Leyland was appointed Executive Director for Environment and Business at the Environment Agency (EA) on 17 October 2022. He was previously Chief of Staff at the EA from 2016 to 2022. Before that he was Area Manager for …
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John Lindfield took up his position as British High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Eswatini in July 2019. Before taking up his new position John oversaw business operations throughout Russia for the Department for Internatio…
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John is an experienced financial services regulatory professional, with over 30 years experience of working in the sector. He also brings considerable experience of audit and risk and is currently a non-executive director at…
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John Longworth is a businessman and entrepreneur. He was originally a scientist and spent most of his career in consumer goods and food corporates doing business in the UK and around the globe. He co-founded a science-tech b…
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John Mahon was the Director General for Exports in the Department for International Trade from April 2018 to July 2020. John spent over 30 years in banking, working for JP Morgan and Barclays. He has worked in a variety of s…
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John Manzoni served as Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office from August 2015 to April 2020. He served as Chief Executive of the Civil Service from October 2014 to April 2020. He joined the Cabinet Office in February 20…
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John Marshall is His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, High Commissioner-designate (non-resident) to the Togolese Republic and Ambassador-designate (non-resident) to the Republic of Benin. He took up his…
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John Matheson was Director of Finance for the NHS in Scotland from 2008 until his retiral in 2016 with specific responsibility for ehealth and analytics. Prior to that he was the Director of Finance at NHS Lothian. He studie…
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John McGlynn was appointed Universal Credit Programme Board Chair on 5 August 2021. John is a Director for Atkins, a member of the SNC Lavalin Group, one of the world’s leading engineering, design and project management orga…
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Born in Essex, John Mitchell joined the UK Diplomatic Service in 1996 having previously served in the British Army. Before his first posting overseas as Third Secretary at the British Embassy Skopje (2000 to 2003), John work…
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John Montague was appointed as the SIA’s Acting Director of Inspections and Enforcement in October 2020. Career John originally joined the SIA in January 2004 as a regional Head of Investigations in the north west of England…
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John Morrison is the founding Executive Director of The Institute for Human Rights and Business. John leads IHRB’s global strategy, fundraising, and outreach. John has advised governments, intergovernmental organisations, a…
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John Newgas joined the Export Guarantee Advisory Council in April 2009. John has over twenty years in the manufacturing industry. As managing director of Albion Manufacturing Ltd, he was directly involved in the import of ra…
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John Ogden is a qualified accountant and a Fellow of CIMA who worked on an interim basis for the OGA until June 2016. John’s career has taken in finance leadership roles both in the public sector - including working for NATS…
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John Ogden joined GAD as Finance Director in September 2018. A qualified accountant and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants John also holds a BA Honours in Humanities from the Open University. John be…
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John has more than 30 years’ experience in the energy sector, where he has delivered a diverse range of major projects around the world. Most recently he led a major programme to expand one of the world’s largest oil and gas…
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John Osmond OBE has been appointed as a BPDTS Ltd non-executive director for a 3 year term. John’s 35 years experience in the information technology and services industry encompasses senior management positions in alliance m…
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John was appointed as a non-executive director (NED) for the Home Office in June 2020. John has extensive international board and leadership experience. He has been Chief Executive of media companies in 4 countries ranging f…
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John Peaden began his career with HM Land Registry at our Durham office in 1977 at 19 years of age. Over the years he has worked in our Tunbridge Wells, Stevenage and Harrow offices. John took up his role on the Board in Apr…
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John Pearson was appointed as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Laos in August 2019. John has extensive experience working on Asia and Latin America. He has previous postings in Madrid (1992 to 1994), Brasilia (1996 to 1999), Mont…
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He was previously a Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office from November 2018 to July 2019. John was first elected as MP for Weston, Worle and the Villages in 2005. Education John attended Ipswich School before stu…