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Nick Longhurst was the Acting Director of Finance and Corporate Services at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ) between September 2016 and October 2016. His usual role at DVSA is Head of Financial Accounting and…
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Nick Low was appointed British High Commissioner to Maldives in January 2025. Nick joined what was then the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1993. He had previously worked in the National Health Service for two years as a…
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Nick McInnes was British Consul General in Sydney and Director-General UK Trade & Investment for Australia and New Zealand from January 2013 to January 2017. In this role, he acted as the British Government representativ…
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Nick O’Donohoe was the Chief Executive Officer of Big Society Capital from 2011 to December 2015 and helped to establish and launch this independent financial institution. Nick is a Senior Advisor to the Gates Foundation. Pr…
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Nick Olley was appointed General Counsel at Department for Transport in November 2013. He was previously a Partner at Burges Salmon LLP, where he led both their Transport Sector Group and Commercial Department. Since being i…
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Nick was appointed as the NIO’s first Chief Operating Officer on 14 February 2022, and is responsible for the efficient and effective delivery of corporate services, including finance, human resources, estates, digital and t…
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Nick Payne joined the CNPA Board as an Independent Member in July 2025. He has worked in a variety of senior finance, commercial, and operational roles across Government, policing, and the private sector. Nick is a qualified…
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Nick Pickard assumed the role of Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Berlin in August 2014. He has been Political Counsellor and Consul-General at the Embassy since August 2013. Between 2008 and 2012 Nick was ba…
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Nicholas John Pyle OBE, MBE was accredited as Deputy Governor of Gibraltar in September 2016. Prior to this appointment he served as British High Commissioner to the Republic of Botswana and UK Representative to the Southern…
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Nick Relph is a qualified accountant and former NHS chief executive with 40 years’ experience having been a finance director before taking up chief executive roles at district and strategic authority level in the Thames Vall…
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Nick Russell was British Consul-General in Dusseldorf from May 2023 to June 2025. Nick began his career with the British government in 2009 and has extensive experience in digital policy making and trade. Nick’s first positi…
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Nick Smallwood is the Chief Executive Officer of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority and Head of Government’s Project Delivery Function. Nick is the former Vice President for Projects Engineering and Chief Projects Eng…
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Nick Timothy was a non-executive board member of the Department for Education between March 2020 and June 2022. Nick is also a visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, and formerly a Director of the New Schools Net…
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Nick White has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Asunción since January 2016. He joined the FCO in 2001 and between 2003–2007 was a worldwide floater and did a number of short-term attachments to British …
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Mr Nick Whittingham was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Guatemala and Her Majesty’s Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras in September 2019. Curriculum Vitae 2014 - 2018 Consul General, Br…
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Nicki Hay has over 30 years’ experience in the further education, higher education and skills sectors. She is currently the Director of Strategy and Policy at BPP Education Group. She is also the Chair of the Association of …
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Nicky is a former lawyer who has worked in-house both in the public and private sector, as well as being in private practice. Nicky started her career working for The British Railways Board, prior to and during privatization…
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Nicky Wilden was appointed as a non-executive member of the HMCTS Board in November 2020 and chair of the HMCTS Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. Nicky is currently a non-executive board member of Central & Cecil Housi…
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Nicola Bacon joined the Civil Nuclear Constabulary in May 2023 as the Director of People. Nicola has performed many roles across a 31-year professional career within the Nuclear Sector and is an experienced leader working wi…
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Nicola Bettesworth joined the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) in July 2011. She’s a professionally qualified HR practitioner and has also run a large front-line operational command in the UK Border Agency (UKBA), where she was r…
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Nicola is an experienced business director with a strong delivery track record of nearly 30 years in the public and private sectors, developing and driving UK and international programmes to achieve business change, operatio…
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Nicky Foulston is CEO of the City Law Firm Rosenblatt Solicitors. She was named Veuve Cliquot Businesswoman of the Year in 1997 when she was Chief Executive of Brands Hatch Leisure plc – she was, and remains, the awards youn…
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Nicola Harris an independent adviser on the Customer Experience Committee at HMRC and Leeds Building Society’s Head of Customer Experience. Nicola is responsible for the customer experience for all members of Leeds Building …
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Nicola Hirst was appointed Service Delivery Director in January 2023. She has a long career in operations and service delivery in APHA and the Defra group.
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Nicola Lawton was Chief Operating Officer at the Environment Agency from November 2023 to March 2024. She was previously the Director of Strategy, Planning and People. Nicola has worked in the Environment Agency for 24 years…
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Nicola joined the FCO in 1999, escaping her previous career as a lawyer. Her first overseas posting was as a “World Wide Floater” serving in over 15 Embassies throughout Africa, South/Central America and the Middle East in a…
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Nicola is a commercially focused financial director and a chartered accountant with extensive knowledge and experience of leading and transforming finance teams. She has experience in transformational change, system implemen…
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Nicola Kathryn Pollitt was appointed her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in November 2019. Prior to this appointment she was the Additional Director in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Dir…
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Nicholas Harrocks has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Kyiv since June 2020. Nicolas previously worked in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s (FCO’s) COVID-19 Repatriation Cell, helping to repatriate…
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Ms Nicole Davison was appointed British High Commissioner to Belize. Curriculum vitae Dates Role September 2022 to October 2024 British High Commissioner to Belize 2016 to 2022 Vancouver, Consul General 2012 to 2016 Zagreb, …
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Nicole joined High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd in February 2016 as General Counsel and Company Secretary and was appointed to the Executive Committee in Spring 2017. Nicole previously worked for a top tier Australian law firm in the…
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Nicole Kar is a partner at Linklaters LLP, where she is a specialist in EC and UK competition law. Before joining Linklaters in 2001, Nicole was a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and a Solicitor and Barrister of…
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Nicole Westcott joined Radioactive Waste Management Ltd (RWM) as Director People, HR and Transformation in 2021 from water and waste company Severn Trent PLC where she led across HR Operations, Group Reward and Employee Expe…
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Nicolette Brent was appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Vanuatu in June 2022. Before that, Nicolette was Consul General in Miami 2018 to 2022, where she led the government’s work promoting UK economic, pol…
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Nigel Addison Smith joined UK Export Finance in June 2005. He is the finance director and a member of the executive committee and the management board. Nigel is a chartered accountant. He previously worked for First Choice H…
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Nigel Baker was appointed British Ambassador to Slovakia in September 2020. Previously he was the British Ambassador to the Holy See from September 2011 through July 2016. Nigel also served 8 years in Latin America, as Deput…
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Nigel Boardman was a Non-Executive Board Member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ( BEIS ) and the Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee . Nigel was a partner at Slaughter and May from …
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Nigel Boud is the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Lisbon. Before arriving in Portugal in July 2023, Nigel was Deputy Head of China Department in the FCDO in London. He was previously Deputy Head of Mission a…
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Nigel Brooksby is the Non Executive Chairman of Prism Pharma Limited and past Chair of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society. Prior to this, Nigel was Chairman & Managing Director of sanofi aventis UK and had overall r…
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Nigel Casey is His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation. Nigel was the Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan from May 2021 until January 2023. He was also the Director for Afghanistan…
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Nigel is a London-based Operating Executive in Marlin Operations Group, Inc., focused on conducting operational due diligence and providing operational support to European portfolio companies in the software and technology s…
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Nigel Cotgrove is a Trustee Director of the BT Pension Scheme; and a member of the Prison Service Pay Review Body, the Low Pay Commission and the Central Arbitration Committee. Nigel worked for the Communication Workers’ Uni…
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Full name: Nigel John Dakin Married to: Amanda Dakin Children: Two 2016 – 2019 Washington, Counsellor, National Security Lead 2014 – 2019 Ministry of Defence, Non-Executive Director, British Army No 1 Board 2013 – 2016 FCO, …
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Nigel Duncan joined the Further Education (FE) Commissioner’s team as an FE Adviser in August 2019. He was appointed Interim Deputy Further Education Commissioner in January 2021, and became a Deputy FE Commissioner in Septe…
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Professor Nigel Gibbens CBE was the UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer from May 2008 to March 2018. He was appointed in May 2008 following previous experience in the State Veterinary Service and in policy roles on international t…
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Nigel Haywood is the Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. He took up his appointment in October 2010. Mr Haywood is a career diplomat, and served in Budapest, Jo…
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Nigel Houlton joined Magnox in August 2020 from EDF Energy, where he has spent a decade in various roles shaping the future direction of the nuclear business in the UK. His most recent role was Head of New Business, but he h…
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Nigel Huddleston was Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 13 November 2023 and 5 July 2024. He was previously Minister of State at the Department for Business and Trade from 7 February 2023 to 13 November 2023, Govern…
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Nigel was appointed as a non-executive member of the ESFA ARC when the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and Skills Funding Agency (SFA) merged to become the ESFA. Nigel is also a member of DfE’s Audit and Risk Committee. Prior…