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  • Mark is the Military Member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body and assumed this position at the end of 3 decades of service in the Army.  He commissioned into the Army Air Corps and went on to fly helicopters in the UK and …

  • Mark was appointed MOJ’s Director General People & Capability in August 2025. Mark joined the MOJ in 2016 and previously held several senior roles including MOJ’s Chief People Officer and HR Director for HMPPS. Whilst wi…

  • Mark Addison was appointed to ACOBA in June 2012. He is currently a Public Appointments Assessor for the Commissioner for Public Appointments and Chair of the Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Mark joined the Civi…

  • Mark Alexander joined Dstl in 2009 as Finance Director. Mark trained as a chartered accountant with Binder Hamlyn (now part of Deloitte), qualifying in 1988. He spent three years in corporate finance in the City, working on …

  • Mark Ashenden is a senior leader within the Defra Group, with extensive experience spanning operational delivery, strategic governance, and policy development. His career began in operational processing before progressing in…

  • Mark Austen is an experienced financial services professional, having been a partner and board member of global accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led major changes to the financial services environment in the…

  • Mark has been a Non-Executive Director at the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Defence Business Services since January 2022 and a Non-Executive Member at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) since December 2024. F…

  • Mark Bassington is the Director for Change at the Dislcosure and Barring Service. Mark became the Director for Change at the DBS in March 2013. Before becoming the Director for Change, Mark held a number of senior management…

  • Mark Bayley was formerly Finance Director and then Chief Executive of London & Continental Railways Limited (LCR), the developer of the High Speed 1 railway and the owner of the U.K. arm of Eurostar. After leaving LCR, h…

  • Mark Beaton brings over 30 years’ experience in technology, digital transformation and large‑scale organisational change, built through a senior career at Accenture and subsequent non‑executive roles across government and th…

  • Mark Bensberg was appointed Deputy Head of Mission for Norway in July 2017. Mark’s HM Diplomatic Service career spans Europe and Africa. Previous postings include Paris, Vienna and Brussels; as High Commissioner to Namibia, …

  • Mark has over 30 years’ experience in strategic and operational leadership across investment, development and asset management within commercial real estate. This includes roles as Managing Director for the UK and Ireland di…

  • Mark Boyle is Non-executive Chair, Land Registry Board, an independent role he fulfils in a private capacity. Mark was Director and Chief Operating Officer at the Shareholder Executive, Department for Business, Innovation an…

  • Mark Boyle is Non-executive Chair, Land Registry Board, an independent role he fulfils in a private capacity. Mark was Director and Chief Operating Officer at the Shareholder Executive, Department for Business, Innovation an…

  • Mark Bryant is a senior member of the Business Growth Fund plc and also brings 30 years of experience in manufacturing and industry roles such as the Managing Director / CEO of Pressurements Ltd, Druck Holdings plc, M&H …

  • Mark Bryson-Richardson was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt in May 2025, assuming his role in August 2025. Prior to his appointment, Mark was the Foreign Secretary’s Representative for Humanit…

  • Career at Foreign and Commonwealth Office Present British Ambassador to Indonesia 2009-11 British Ambassador to Zimbabwe 2006-09 British Ambassador to Burma / Myanmar 2001-05 Deputy High Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur 1997–01 Pe…

  • Mark Cheeseman OBE is the Chief Executive of the Public Sector Fraud Authority. Mark heads up the Public Sector Fraud Authority, which works with UK government departments and public bodies to better understand and reduce th…

  • Mark is a consultant general and colorectal surgeon at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and the National Clinical Lead for General Surgery at the Getting it Right First Time Programme in NHS England. He was awar…

  • Mark joined the Cabinet Office as Government Chief Property Officer in January 2022. Mark is responsible for providing senior, strategic leadership for the whole cross-government property function. He works with a wide range…

  • Mr Mark Clayton was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Georgia in August 2020. Curriculum Vitae 2018 - present Cabinet Office, Deputy Director, European Security and Defence 2017 - 2018 Moscow, Minister Counsellor (Politi…

  • Mark was appointed as a Non-Executive Director (NED) at the Government Property Agency (GPA) in April 2018. Mark is a non-executive member for the GPA Board. He is also assisting its Investment Committee as an independent me…

  • Mark joined Magnox in October 2020, having previously worked as General Counsel at Cadent, a large regulated company in the energy sector. He has also worked in senior legal roles at National Grid and Rolls-Royce. Mark train…

  • 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 until retirement a Board Member of the Judicial College, and has trained judges of mos…

  • 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 Ferguson was appointed Assistant Whip, House of Commons on 7 September 2025. He was elected as the MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham in July 2024.

  • 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 Hamilton served as police officer for thirty years before retiring from his role as Deputy Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for Hate Crime. Appointed: 1 …

  • 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.