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Mary was appointed as a non-executive member of the Board in September 2017 and is also a member of the Audit Committee. She is a senior economist with over 25 years’ experience planning, undertaking and delivering high qual…
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Mary Jo Jacobi was appointed to ACOBA in June 2012. She has held senior roles in the banking and financial services industry at HSBC (1993 to 2000), Lehman Brothers (2000 to 2001) and Drexel Burnham Lambert (1985 to 1990). S…
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From June 2013 to October 2017 Mary Reilly was a non-executive member of the Department for Transport Board. Mary was a chartered accountant and audit partner when appointed at Deloitte. She has over 30 years of extensive ex…
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Mary Shockledge arrived in Somalia in April 2017 as Deputy Ambassador. She was previously in Uganda as Deputy High Commissioner.
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Mary-Kate Thomson became the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy Yangon in February 2023. Before taking up her role in Yangon Mary-Kate was the UK’s Attaché to Northern Ghana. Mary-Kate joined the FCO (now FCDO) in…
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Matt Agar is Building Digital UK’s (BDUK’s) Strategy Director and is responsible for the strategy and design of Government’s delivery programmes for broadband connectivity, including Project Gigabit. Matt joined BDUK in 2010…
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Matthew Armstrong joined the GIAA on 3 January 2018 in the newly established role of Chief Operating Officer, responsible for delivery of the Agency’s corporate services. Prior to joining GIAA Matthew worked in the Ministry …
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Matt Baugh OBE was appointed British High Commissioner to Kenya in April 2026 . Matt was Director for Migration and Conflict issues at the FCDO until December 2025. Before this he held the role of Director for Euro-Atlantic …
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Matt Cannell has been British Deputy High Commissioner to Pakistan since November 2024. Prior to taking up his current position he was British Deputy High Commissioner and Development Director (2021 to 2024) to Bangladesh. M…
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Matt was Director of Science Operations and Research from September 2024 to July 2025. Before joining APHA, Matt was Chief Delivery Officer at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory ( Dstl ). Much of his career has be…
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Matt’s previous roles include General Manager, UK Procurement Outsourcing division, Xchanging, and positions at Cable and Wireless and Ford Motor Company.
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Matt Field was appointed British Ambassador to the Czech Republic in January 2023. Matt was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina from August 2018 to June 2022. Matt has previously served in a number of overseas…
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Matt is the Deputy Government Actuary. He was appointed in August 2022, following an open competition for the role. Prior to that he was Actuarial Director for Clients, Growth and Development. He is a member of GAD’s Board a…
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Matt King was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of DVLA in November 2020. Education Matt is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with PwC in 1996. …
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Matt Moody took up his post as Consul-General Guangzhou in July 2022. He leads the UK Government’s engagement in the provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan and Jiangxi in South China. Matt joined the Foreign,…
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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…
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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.…
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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
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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…
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Matt is GAD’s Pensions and Provisioning Director and is a member of GAD’s Executive
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 – …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 ) …
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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…
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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…
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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…