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Matt has been a senior civil servant at DBT since 2016 with policy responsibility for core elements of UK company law, with a particular focus in recent years on reform of Companies House and related measures to tackle the m…

Matt Thurstan is Director General, Chief Financial Officer at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Matt joined MHCLG from My Civil Service Pensions (MyCSP), where he was the Chief Executive for 4 years.…

Matt is Executive Director, Strategy, and joined Ofqual in 2023. His previous roles include: Director of Strategy and UKP Partnerships, Macmillan Cancer Support Strategy Director, National Trust

Matt Warman was Minister of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport between 7 July 2022 and 7 September 2022. He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Cult…

Matt is GAD’s Pensions and Provisioning Director and is a member of GAD’s Executive

Mr Matt Woods has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Cameroon and His Majesty’s non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea He will succeed Mr Barry Lowen, who will be transferring t…

Matthew has been the Deputy Director for Launch, SDA & ISAM at the UK Space Agency since April 2026. Matthew was previously Director of Launch at the UK Space Agency. Since joining the UK Space Agency in January 2018, Ma…

Prior to joining the ESFA Matthew spent 20 years working with distressed and stressed corporates and their stakeholders. He joined from PwC where he worked in the Deals Team for over 10 years, working in insolvency and restr…

Matthew Bailes joined the HCA in April 2012. Before this, he was Director of Regulation at the Tenant Services Authority, and Head of the Affordable Housing Division at the Department for Communities and Local Government. Ma…

Matthew (Matt) Burney assumes his role of His Majesty’s Consul-General, Shanghai from September 2023. Prior to this role, Matt was the Director of the British Council in China, where he oversaw the United Kingdom’s cultural …

As Director General for EU Exit Implementation, Matthew reports jointly into Cabinet Office and DExEU. Prior to this role, Matthew was the Chief Operating Officer for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), leading departmental strat…

Matthew Coffey is Ofsted’s Deputy Chief Inspector and Chief Operating Officer. Matthew joined Ofsted in 2007 following a career teaching in further education and leadership roles in an awarding body and a national learning p…

Matt was appointed Deputy Head of Mission to Indonesia and Timor Leste in August 2022. Prior to this, he worked as Deputy Director, Head of Western Balkans Programme Department in FCDO London. After completing his MA in Orie…

Matthew is Director of Competitiveness at BusinessLDN. He is responsible for a programme of work on competitiveness, including regulatory, fiscal and economic measures that support growth and make London a compelling destina…

Matthew Garner was appointed as GFSL’s Interim Chief Executive Officer in May 2022. He is a strategic leader, bringing a wealth of experience in developing and leading high performing teams delivering facilities management a…

Matthew is the National Director for Digital Transformation in NHS England, and Director General for Digital Transformation in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). Until 31 January 2022 he was also the CEO of NHS…

Mr Matthew Hedges was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Paraguay in August 2017. Curriculum Vitae Full name Matthew James Hedges 2015 – 2016 Princeton University, Master in Public Policy – International Relations 2012 – …

Matthew Johnson has been Head of Mediterranean Migration Unit at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) in London since July 2018. He was also acting Migration Envoy from January until October 2019. From 2016 to 2018 …

Matthew Kidd began his career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1978 and took up his first posting to Cyprus in 1980. He was later posted to New York, Paris, Ethiopia, Germany and NATO before returning to Cyprus as B…

Matthew Lawson was appointed Ambassador to the Republic of North Macedonia in July 2022. Prior to this appointment, he was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan. Curriculum Vitae Full name: Matthew Richard A…

Matthew Lodge became Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic, Greece in September 2021. Matthew was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Marines on leaving school in 1986. He was sponsored through Birmingham Uni…

Matthew Patrick was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Northern Ireland Office between 7 September 2025 and 22 July 2026. He was elected as the MP for Wirral West in July 2024. Prior to becoming an MP, Matthew wor…

Matthew Purves took up his post as National Director of the Ofsted Academy on 2 September 2024. Previously he was Regional Director, South East from January 2022. Matthew was Director for Education Services at a large nation…

Matthew was appointed Director of Regulation and Economics in March 2016. Matthew began his career at KPMG audit, qualified as a Chartered Accountant and then specialised in business valuations. He moved to investment bankin…

Matthew Rous took up his appointment as HM Consul-General Guangzhou on 21 December 2014. He leads the British Government’s engagement in the six provinces of the South China region: Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan …

Matthew joined the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in December 2015 from DLA Piper UK LLP where he was a Senior Associate in the litigation and regulatory team. Prior to this he was a legal advisor at the Environment Agenc…

Matthew Shouler is Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Angola. Matthew has served in the Royal Navy in Sierra Leone, East Asia, and the Arabian Gulf, in the diplomatic service in London, Beijing, Jerusalem and R…

Matthew Speers was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Life Sciences Organisation in August 2016. Previously Matthew was the Chief Executive of the Proprietary Association of Great Britain (PAGB), which is the tra…

Matthew Style was appointed Interim Second Permanent Secretary and Chief Operating Officer in March 2026. His previous roles include: Director General, System Development at the Department of Health and Social Care ( DHSC ) …

Matthew Taylor CBE is Chair of the Fair Work Agency, having been appointed in October 2025. He leads the board of the new agency, which brings together existing employment rights enforcement bodies to create a single, stream…

Matthew Vickerstaff is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) and Head of Government’s Project Finance Profession. He is responsible for the UK Guarante…

Matthew is currently the Director of Legal Services (and General Counsel) at the Serious Fraud Office. He joined the SFO in 2012 where, prior to his current role, he was an operational Head of Division responsible for superv…

Matthew Webb was Deputy Head of Mission and HM Consul in the Dominican Republic from March 2016 until January 2018. He was also HM Consul for Haiti. Matthew joined the FCO in 2007, and has worked in the Counter Proliferation…

Matthew Westerman is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial War Museum. He started his career in 1986 at Credit Suisse First Boston. He subsequently worked at Rothschild & Co where he became Managing Direc…

Maura is a finance professional with an executive career spanning Board level CFO roles in Banking, Asset Management and Pensions.  She has worked in complex international organisations, managed large teams and led and suppo…

Max Milner was appointed Deputy Head of Mission to the British Embassy, Conakry in August 2023. Before moving to Guinea he served in Argentina and the British Virgin Islands. He has also held roles in the UK covering the G7,…

Maxine is Director of Regulatory Operations at the Regulator of Social Housing.

Maxine is a nuclear law and contract specialist with more than 21 years’ experience in the energy industry. Maxine’s previous experience includes National Grid, and from 2005 at law firm Gowling WLG advising key members of t…

Max Irving arrived in the Dominican Republic in January 2018 to take up his present position as Deputy Head of Mission and HM Consul. He is also HM Consul for Haiti. Max joined the FCO in 2011, working in Europe Directorate …

Mayank joined DWP as Director General Digital Technology in November 2014. He became Director General, Chief Digital and Information Officer in September 2016.

Mayur took up the post as Head of BV Division from 10 November 2014. He has been in the Government Legal Service for over 24 years and in that time he has been a deputy director in a number of different civil litigation post…

Megan Lee Devlin was appointed as Director General in the Ministry of Justice in March 2024. Megan is responsible for leading on service transformation across the Ministry of Justice and its agencies. This includes oversight…

Mehdi was most recently Deputy Head of FCDO’s East Africa Department. Before that he was Charge D’Affaires in Mauritania, and Deputy British High Commissioner in Tanzania. Mehdi also worked at the British Embassy Beijing, wh…

Mehrunnisa has a diverse background and has worked for a range of public sector organisations from Local Government to the Prison Service. For the past 9 years Mehrunnisa has been Director of Inclusion for the Solicitors Reg…

Mel Barlow became His Majesty’s Ambassador to Laos in September 2023. Mel was most recently Deputy Ambassador in Kathmandu (2022 to 2023). She joined the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2002 and has previous …

Mel Lawrance has served as Deputy Consul General to New York since September 2025. Prior to that, she was Deputy Head of the Gulf Department at the Foreign Office and Political Counsellor at the British Embassy in Ankara. Sh…

Mel is Director General for the Litigation with Justice and Security Group. Her previous Civil Service roles include: • Director General, Employment with Economic Recovery and UK Governance Group, GLD, October 2021 to May 20…

Mel Zuydam was the NDA Group Chief Financial Officer from January 2020 to March 31 2023. Mel is an experienced CFO with a strong track record in financial change, business growth and effective performance management. He’s wo…

Melanie is currently Chief Research and Development Officer at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) where she has responsibility for the NDA group Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) strategy and NDA’s RD&…