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Kirsti Bourret joined the team as Deputy Head of Mission to Finland in July 2020. Prior to her posting in Helsinki, she worked in the Americas Directorate of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. Kirsti has previous…
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Kirstin Baker was appointed a Panel Inquiry Chair and Panel Member Non-Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Board on 1 September 2018. She is also a member of the Audit and Risk Committee. She st…
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Kirstin Gray joined the Government Chemist in 2009. She worked at Leatherhead Food Research Association, before joining LGC, a life sciences research and testing company, in 1999. She has more than 20 years’ experience provi…
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Kirsty has extensive environmental social governance management and sustainability experience across financial services, telecommunications, and technology sectors. She is currently serving as the Director of Sustainable Ban…
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Kirsty Carter-Brown was appointed as Chief Officer Business Management at Natural England on 26 January 2023. Kirsty joined the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the Civil Service in 2003. Her career has f…
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Kirsty Cooper is General Counsel and Company Secretary at Aviva, a member of the Aviva Leadership Team and heads the Office of the Chairman. Kirsty leads the Legal and Secretarial function for Aviva globally. Since her appoi…
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Kirsty Evans has been an ESFA Associate Director since April 2018. Prior to that, Kirsty worked as Deputy Director Funding Policy Implementation for the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), having previously held roles as Director o…
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Full name: Kirsty Isobel Hayes Dates Role 2021 - 27 June 2025 Argentina, UK Ambassador 2018 – 2021 Home Office, International Director 2014 – 2018 Lisbon, Her Majesty’s Ambassador 2014 Full-time language training (Portuguese…
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Kirsty McNeill is the Scottish Labour and Co-operative MP for Midlothian and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland. Career before politics Immediately before her election to parliament Kirsty was an Executi…
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Kirsty joined Homes England in September 2022. She is Homes England’s first Chief Operating Officer. She previously held the role of Chief Operating Officer at Care Quality Commission, where she was responsible for a complex…
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Kirsty Whitehead was appointed as a non-executive director at the Intellectual Property Office in September 2024. Kirsty has leadership experience at both Board and Executive team level and has held senior leadership roles a…
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Kobi was the Humanitarian and Development Director for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) leading UK’s international development engagement in South Sudan. Prior to South Sudan, Kobi was the Developme…
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Kris Hopkins was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office on 17 July 2016. He was elected Conservative MP for Keighley in West Yorkshire in May 2010. Education Kris has a degree in comm…
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Kris Krasnowski joined the Office for the Secretary of State for Scotland in July 2021 and is the Deputy Director for policy and delivery, including leading work on Region Deals. Prior to this he spent 5 years as a Deputy Di…
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Kru Desai’s career spans 30 years as a management consultant working with public and private sector organisations in the UK and internationally. Her executive experience combines general management in growing professional an…
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Kumar Iyer is the UK’s Ambassador to the United Nations, WTO and other international organisations in Geneva. Before this, Kumar was Director General, Economics, Science and Technology at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Deve…
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Kunal Khatri was His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for North America, based at the British Consulate General in New York City, from January 2024 until April 2024. Prior to this, he spent five years at the British Embassy Beij…
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Kunle Olulode is a co-opted member of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. He will attend meetings relevant to his work on the Windrush Working Group. He is the director at Voice4Change England, a BAME (Black, Asia…
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Ken Gill joined the LAA in 2023. Ken is passionate about education, professional regulation, health and policy development, breaking down cultural barriers, and creating lasting alliances to drive forward social mobility. Hi…
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Lady Eithne Birt began her career in probation with the Greater Manchester Probation Service in 1979. She was promoted to roles at the Cambridgeshire, Inner London and Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Probation Services, be…
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Dame Julia Macur was called to the Bar in 1979, and was a practicing barrister in the Midland and Oxford Circuit between 1979 and 2005. In 1998 she was appointed Queen’s Counsel, and was Assistant Recorder and then Recorder …
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Dame Kate Thirlwall was called to the Bar in 1982 and appointed as an assistant recorder in 1998 and a recorder in 2000. She took Silk in 1999 and became a Bencher of Middle Temple in 2008. She was appointed as a High Court …
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Lakh was appointed non-executive director of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service Board in July 2018. Lakh is an experienced CEO, Chair and NED, having spent over 30 years leading technology businesses in Europe, South Amer…
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Lance Domm is British Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi, Director of Trade in Pakistan and Deputy Trade Commissioner for the Middle East and Pakistan. He took up the role in February 2025. Lance has served in the Foreign, …
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Larissa Bruscky is the current Director for Government Relations and Trade at the British Consulate in Recife, appointed in April 2024 by the British Ambassador in Brazil, Stephanie Al-Qaq. She had occupied the position on a…
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Larissa Joy OBE was appointed as a non-executive director of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in July 2023. Larissa is a non-executive director of search firm Saxton Bampfylde; Chairman of the trust board o…
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Lars Lippuner joined the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s (MCA) UK Customer Maritime Services directorate in 2024. Before joining the MCA, Lars was Associate Professor of Maritime Education and served as the Director of Wars…
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Laura joined the BDUK Commercial Function in 2019, becoming BDUK Commercial Director in 2021. Prior to that, Laura joined Cabinet Office Commercial in 2018 and the Government Commercial Organisation shortly after, looking at…
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Following the completion of the statutory audit services market investigation, of which Laura was the Chair, her appointment term ended on 26 September 2014. The information provided below is accurate for Laura’s term of app…
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Laura Catterick was appointed Non-Executive Director to the VMD in June 2025 and also as Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. Laura is a Chartered Professional Accountant with extensive experience in financial ov…
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Ms Laura Clarke was the British High Commissioner to New Zealand, and Governor of the Pitcairn Islands from January 2018 to July 2022. Prior to this, she was Head of the South Asia Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth …
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Laura Cox is currently a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. She is also a member of the Law Society (England and Wales), and the American Bar Association.
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Laura Crawforth took up the post of Deputy Director Constitutional Policy and further devolution in September 2014. Prior to that Laura held a number of posts in the Scotland Office from 2006: working with the Calman Commiss…
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Laura Davies took up her position as His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Finland in November 2024. Laura was previously the UK Permanent Delegate to the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisati…
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Laura Farris was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice between 13 November 2023 and 5 July 2024.
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Laura Mazal is Development Director at the British Embassy in Kinshasa, ensuring strategic oversight of the UK’s development and humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Prior to this, Laura headed …
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Laura Wensley is the Head of Service Development and Central Commissioning and joined the Legal Aid Agency in June 2013. Change portfolio manager, HMCTS Project manager, civil courts call centre, HMCTS Financial planning man…
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Laure Beaufils served as the British Ambassador to the Philippines and Palau from 2021 to 2025. She was the Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa of the Department of International Development from 2019 to 202…
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Lauren Costello has over 30 years’ experience in the education sector, specialising in strategy development and school improvement. She began her career as a teacher, proceeding to headteacher positions, before co-founding T…
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Laurence Lee was the Second Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Laurence joined the MOD in June 2021. As Second Permanent Secretary his responsibilities included digital transformation across Defence, secur…
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Laurence Lewis was appointed as Deputy Director of Digital at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) in December 2013. Previously he has held senior roles at: Ministry of Defence HM Revenue and Customs Department for Transport Thomas Co…
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Laurence started as Director, Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland on 2 November 2020. Prior to that he was the Head of Strategy and Communications at the City of Edinburgh Council where he was responsible for corpo…
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Laurence Williams FREng (Chair) is an Emeritus Professor of Nuclear Safety and Regulation. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London; a Visiting Professor at King’s College London and his additional roles inc…
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Laurie Benson is a former global media executive who now advises boards on transforming their organisations and exploiting the benefits of digital technology. She brings a mix of private and public sector executive and board…
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Appointed Non-Executive Director 1 April 2021 Director of Wastewater and Asset Management at Southern Water Career centred on asset management, capital delivery and operations primarily in the utilities sector Qualifications…
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Lawrence M. Weiss was a Non-Executive Director of the UK Export Finance (UKEF) Board. He was the Chair of the UKEF Audit Committee, and a member of the Risk Committee as well as the Remuneration Committee. From 2017 to 2019 …
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Lawrence Slade is a member of the Committee on Fuel Poverty . Appointed: 4 January 2016 Reappointed: 4 January 2019 (for a 2nd term) Terms ends: 3 January 2021
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Lawrence Tallon is the Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). He was previously Deputy Chief Executive at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, where he led the Trust’s approa…