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All ministers and senior officials on GOV.UK

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  • Mark Cornelius has spent most of his career working as a macroeconomist, predominantly at the Bank of England. He has also worked at HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office. Mark has degrees in economics from the University of Lo…

  • Mark was previously CIO at Vodafone UK where he introduced Cloud-based technologies. He was named Oracle Global Business Unit CIO of the Year in 2012. He has also held senior positions with Cable and Wireless and Boots the C…

  • Mark Denney is a senior change and IT executive with broad experience in digital transformation, payments infrastructure, technology and strategic change. Mark spent more than a decade at Barclays, latterly as Managing Direc…

  • Mark Dittmer-Odell was appointed British Consul-General in Munich in April 2024. His area of responsibility covers Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Before he began his career with the British government in 2017, he worked in g…

  • Mark retired as an Employment Judge in early 2024, having also sat in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, and as a Judge Advocate. He was a Board Member of the Judicial College, and has trained judges of most court and tribu…

  • Mark is an independent adviser on the Customer Experience Committee at HMRC. He previously sat on the Executive Committee of Direct Line Group and was Managing Director for Marketing and Digital. Prior to DLG Mark worked at …

  • Mark Fisher CBE FRSA has been Director General and Secretary to the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry since June 2017. Prior to taking up the post Mark was Director of the Office for Civil Society at the Cabinet Office (and late…

  • Mark Fletcher was Assistant Government Whip from 14 November 2023 to 5 July 2024.

  • Mark was appointed acting Assistant Director (Pupil and Families Services) in January 2010. He has worked in a number of posts within Service Children’s Education since 1999, with his substantive post being Education Social …

  • Mark Garnier was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Trade from 17 July 2016 to 9 January 2018. He was elected as the Conservative MP for Wyre Forest in May 2010. Career outside politic…

  • Professor Mark Gillan is responsible for leading the Strategy and Impact and Centres and Networks Governance directorates at Innovate UK. This includes directing delivery of Innovate UK’s strategy, the design and development…

  • Mark Glover joined Innovate UK in 2009. His previous roles include: Vice President & General Manager of Storage Business at Oxford Semiconductors Vice President & General Manager of Home Entertainment Solutions at Ph…

  • Mark was the Director of the Department for Business and Trade, UK Defence and Security Exports ( UKDSE ) from 15 July 2020 to 6 September 2024. Mark spent over 30 years in the British Army before joining UKDSE in January 20…

  • Mr Mark Gooding OBE became HM Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand in July 2021. Mark joined the FCO in 1999 and has spent his career working mostly on Europe and Asia. His previous FCO roles include Director Covid (Repatri…

  • Mark graduated from Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics, before beginning his career working as a strategy consultant at Deloitte. While at Deloitte he worked across a wide range of industries and se…

  • Mark Grimshaw, Chief Executive, joined the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) in January 2011. His previous roles include: Managing Director, Child Support Agency Head of Employer Services, Jobcentre Plus Senior Vice President for …

  • Mark is chair of the South Gloucestershire Improvement Board, independent chair of Wiltshire multi-agency safeguarding arrangements, and previously chair of the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB) for Devon. Mark is a…

  • Mark Hoban was appointed Minister of State for Employment in September 2012. He was elected Conservative MP for Fareham on 7 June 2001. Education Mark has an economics degree from the London School of Economics. Political ca…

  • Mark became Chair of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration in 2025 after five years as a member of the Police and National Crime Agency Pay Review Body. He has served on various pay and HR bodies, including …

  • Mark Hodgkinson, was appointed as Chief Executive (interim) and Accounting Officer of the Agency on 8 April 2016. His previous experience in the commercial sector includes: retail (Asda, Wyevale Garden Centres and HMV); heal…

  • Mark Huddleston is a Commissioner at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills . Mark is currently the managing director of jheSOLUTIONS and King & Fowler UK. He has held a variety of posts both in engineering discipli…

  • Mark Hunter was Assistant Whip from 11 May 2010 to 13 October 2014. He was elected Liberal Democrat MP for Cheadle on 14 July 2005. Education Mark was educated at Audenshaw Grammar School for Boys. Career Mark worked as a ma…

  • Mark Jenkinson was Assistant Government Whip from 14 November 2023 to 5 July 2024. He was previously Assistant Government Whip from 20 September 2022 to 27 October 2022.

  • Mark joined the Oil and Pipelines Agency in January 2023 as the programme director in charge of the Major Projects team. Mark has experience in high-revenue, complex projects and portfolio management. He has previously held …

  • Mark Kelly was appointed Deputy Head of Mission to the British Embassy, Conakry in October 2024. Mark joined the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2019. Before moving to Guinea, he worked in the FCDO’s Legal De…

  • Mark Kent was British Ambassador to the Argentine Republic from July 2016 to June 2021. He was previously Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand (2012-2016) and Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (2007-2010). He …

  • Mark Kirkbride was appointed to the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management in November 2019. Mark has been the Chief Executive Officer of West Cumbria Mining Ltd since 2014, having previously worked in a wide range of sen…

  • Mark Larmour was appointed Director (Political) in December 2014. He has oversight of matters relating to political development in Northern Ireland, as well as for the delivery of the cross Government approach to tackling th…

  • Mark Lloyd joined the HMPPS as a Non-Executive Member of the HMPPS Audit and Risk Assurance Committee on 1 April 2022. Mark Lloyd is the chief executive of the Local Government Association. A role he has held since 2015 foll…

  • Mark Lowcock was the Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Development between 9 June 2011 and 7 July 2017. Mark began his career in DFID (formerly the Overseas Development Administration) in 1985 and occu…

  • Mark Makepeace is Group Director of Information Services of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Chief Executive of FTSE Russell, the global index provider. He is a member of LSEG’s Executive Committee. Mark started his ca…

  • Mark Mallalieu was the Head of DFID Afghanistan. Prior to his appointment to DFID Afghanistan, some of his posts were Head of DFID South Sudan (2010-2012) and Head of the DFID Africa Directorate in London (2006-2010). Mark’s…

  • Mark Matthews was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Chad from April 2021 until August 2022. Previously Mark was Deputy Head of Joint Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development (F…

  • Mark McLaughlin started as Defra Chief Finance Officer in October 2015. Mark has over 20 years’ experience as a public sector Chief Finance Officer. His previous roles include: Executive Director of Finance at the Environmen…

  • Mark Neate joined Sellafield Ltd in February 2012. He enjoyed a diverse military career, from Parachute School to a master’s degree in Military Strategy, from the hills of Forkhill to the concrete of Baghdad. He has spent co…

  • Mark Newton currently holds the role of Minister Defence (Director USA) at the British Embassy in Washington DC. As the most senior civilian in the British Defence Staff, he works alongside the Defence Attaché to maintain an…

  • Mark has extensive experience of working across the public and private sectors including in industry, national and regional voluntary organisations, further and higher education, economic development bodies and academia, man…

  • Mark Pennifold is a retired senior Human Resources professional.  As a former HR Director and Chief People Officer, he successfully led (a) sourcing & investment, (b) pay and (c) pension consultation negotiations at the …

  • Mark devoted over 40 years to public service. Most of his career was in policing and he retired as Chief Constable of North Wales Police in 2018 following 9 years in the role. He discharged a number of national responsibilit…

  • Mark joined the Diplomatic Service in 2009 having previously worked as a journalist for ITN, primarily as a Producer on Channel 4 News. In London he worked in the FCO’s National Security Directorate, Americas Directorate and…

  • Mark Prisk was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government in September 2012. Mark was elected Conservative MP for Hertford and Stortford in June 2001. Education He was educated at Trur…

  • Mark Rakestraw was the Acting Consul General in St Petersburg from May to September 2017. Since October 2014, he has been Director of Corporate Services and Her Majesty’s Consul General at the British Embassy in Moscow. He o…

  • Mark Rawlinson joined the Ministry of Justice as a Lead Non-Executive Board Member on 4 June 2018. His term of office following reappointment concludes on 3 March 2026. Mark has over 30 years of commercial experience as an a…

  • Mark Revell took up the appointment of Deputy Chief Executive in 2010 and has worked in the Ministry of Defence for some 20 years. His previous roles include: political advisor and Chief CivMil Branch in Regional Command HQ …

  • Mark is the Head of Office for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in Zambia. Mark has been based at the British High Commission in Lusaka since September 2017. Mark joined DFID in 2005 and has held a nu…

  • Mark has extensive experience in governance, risk management and internal audit across central government departments and private sector organisations. Throughout his career, he has embedded the highest standards and driven …

  • Mark Robson was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. He is also Head of Statistics and Regulatory Data at the Bank of England.