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  • Angela Gillibrand joined the Rural Payments Agency ( RPA ) as a non-executive director in July 2013. Angela is also a member of the RPA ’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. She’s currently a director of her family’s dairy …

  • Angela Henderson is a non-executive director with more than 25 years’ experience in the financial sector. A solicitor who specialised in corporate law before moving into the markets divisions of Deutsche Bank and later Barcl…

  • Angela Holden is Director of Regulatory Engagement at the Regulator of Social Housing.

  • Angela Knight Chair of the Office of Tax Simplification, to which she was appointed in December 2015. She is also the senior independent director on the Boards of Brewin Dolphin plc and Tullett Prebon Plc, a member of the bo…

  • Angela joined Companies House in May 2012 as Head of Human Resources and Estates. She took up the new role as Director of People Transformation in February 2018. This role brings together HR, estates, internal communications…

  • Angela became HM Revenue and Customs ( HMRC ) Deputy Chief Executive and Second Permanent Secretary in August 2020. Angela is an Operations professional with 30 years’ experience of service delivery, transformation and chang…

  • Angela is an accountant and a management consultant. She has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors in both executive and management consultancy roles. Since setting up her own company, she has spent the l…

  • Angela is a non-executive director for the NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). She was previously chief executive of the Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust and Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partners…

  • Angela Morrison has recently joined Cancer Research UK (CRUK) as Chief Operating Officer, where she is responsible for Finance, HR, Technology and Corporate Services. Angela’s career to date has given her extensive executive…

  • Angharad joined Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) in 2006 as a trainee health physicist. She spent eight years in radiation protection, including four years leading the department. Angharad then joined the Trawsfynydd lead …

  • Angie Ridgwell has been Director General, Corporate Services since December 2016. Prior to this she was Director General for Finance and Corporate Services at the Department for Energy and Climate Change ( DECC ). Before joi…

  • Angus Lapsley was appointed the UK’s Permanent Representative to NATO in April 2025 . Before this, Angus served as the Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning at NATO from September 2022 to March 2025. He…

  • Angus is Joint Head of the National Space Operations Centre, with combined responsibility for the UK’s space surveillance and protection capabilities. He joined the UK Space Agency in 2022 following a career in the Diplomati…

  • Anisa Dhanji is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. Anisa practiced as a solicitor specialising in intellectual property/commercial law until her appointment as a Judge in 2000. She has served on the Board of the Intern…

  • Anita is Chief Operating Officer of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. She is a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and chairs its Audit and Governance Committee…

  • A naturally curious influencer who firmly believes in the benefits of having diversity of thought as well as a collaborative approach. Anita joined the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) from Home Office where she was r…

  • Anjoum arrived in Brazil as HM Consul General to Rio de Janeiro in January 2022. In addition to leading the UK government’s presence in Rio de Janeiro, he oversees British diplomatic work across Brazil on 3 portfolios: energ…

  • Ann Beasley was appointed as Director General of Finance at MOJ in February 2010. Ann started her civil service career at HM Customs and Excise. Since then, career highlights include: working for the Civil Aviation Authority…

  • Ann Cairns was lead non-executive board member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ( BEIS ) from January 2021 to February 2023. Ann is the Executive Vice Chair at Mastercard, where she sits as part…

  • Ann Cormack was a Non-Executive Director at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from October 2020 to December 2023. Previously Director International at Rolls-Royce plc, Ann joined the De Beers Group in Octobe…

  • Ann Henshaw is HM Land Registry’s Non-executive Senior Independent Board Member. Ann has worked extensively in human resources and led a transformation and consulting business for over 20 years. Her experience spans multiple…

  • Ann Herrigan is the Deputy High Commissioner at the British High Commission in Bandar Seri Begawan. Ann joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1999. Her career has been divided between postings in the Middle East wi…

  • Ann Jarvis is currently an Employment Tribunal Lay Member. Previously, a full time Trade Union Official for 11 years (1995–2011) in a number of unions. As a Prospect Negotiations Officer, she represented members in the Minis…

  • Ann Lewis joined Companies House in July 2009, and is responsible for the central operations, for customer service and enforcement. Ann was appointed Acting Registrar for England and Wales and Chief Executive between May and…

  • Ann Lloyd is the Chair of the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in Wales and has spent the majority of her career as a chief executive of large health service organisations. Ann was Director General - Health and Social C…

  • Ann leads the programme to find a suitable site and willing community for a geological disposal facility (GDF). Ann was previously RWM’s Waste Management Director and before that spent seven years working with SKB, the Swedi…

  • Ann leads a number of finance teams at the Ministry of Justice, including the Legal Aid Agency, Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, and the Office of the Public Guardian. She has had a varied career as a civil and publ…

  • Ann Pedder is the Crown Representative for a number of key suppliers to central government at the Cabinet Office. She was previously the Commercial Director at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from September 2009 until …

  • Ann Phillips is a solicitor with over 30 years’ experience advising on charity law and practice. She is a Consultant with Stone King LLP. Before becoming a Consultant in 2020, she was a Partner of Stone King LLP for nearly 2…

  • Ann Pope was Acting Executive Director, Enforcement, at the Competition and Markets Authority. Ann began her career in the Government Economic Service and worked in what was the Department of Trade and Industry before she mo…

  • Anna Clunes was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Poland in September 2020. Curriculum Vitae 2017 - 2020 Department for Exiting the European Union, Director, then Acting Director General 2015 - 2017 FCO, Director, Econom…

  • Anna joined Defra group HR in March 2025 as the HR Director for APHA. She has spent much of her career in public sector and Civil Service HR roles, leading work on pay and reward, organisational design and workforce planning…

  • Anna took on the interim Director and Head of Scotland Office role in April 2025. She previously held the role of Deputy Director, Communications of the Scotland Office from December 2018. Following graduation from Glasgow U…

  • Anna McMorrin was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Wales Office on 7 September 2025. She was previously Assistant Whip, House of Commons between 10 July 2024 and 7 September 2025. She was elected as th…

  • Anna Nsubuga was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO and will take up her appointment during July 2023. Previous roles Year Role 2021 to 2022 HM Treasury, Head of European Engagement Unit 2019 to 2021 Depar…

  • Anna Sanders was appointed as Director for the COVID-19 Inquiry Response Unit at the Department of Health and Social Care in February 2022. She was previously Director for Strategy, People and Culture in the Government Legal…

  • Anna Shotbolt was appointed Deputy Trade Commissioner, South Asia, for Exports, Trade Policy and Economics in July 2022, based in New Delhi. Prior to this, she was the Deputy Trade Commissioner, South Asia, for Investments a…

  • Anna Soulsby joined the Export Guarantee Advisory Council in April 2009. She is associate professor of organisational behaviour at the Nottingham University Business School. Anna has considerable experience working in Poland…

  • Anna is currently CEO at Oxford University Development (OUD), a joint venture between Oxford University and Legal & General, set up to build innovation districts and subsidised accommodation for graduate students and the…

  • Anna Walters is UK’s Deputy Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, responsible for promoting relations between the UK and Saudi Arabia and supporting British interests in the Kingdom. Anna has worked internationally for …

  • Anna Wilson is Development Director at British High Commission in Dar es Salaam providing oversight and assurance for UK’s development partnership with Tanzania. Prior to this, Anna was Deputy Development Director in Rwanda …

  • Annabel is currently the Director of Strategy, Analysis and Planning in HMCTS. Previously she was Director of Judicial and Legal Services Policy at the Ministry of Justice and has worked at Cabinet Office, leading a review o…

  • Annabel started as Head of DFID Pakistan in October 2019. Before coming to Islamabad she was based for five years in Harare, where she was Head of DFID Zimbabwe and also led the DFID South Africa Development Partnerships Uni…

  • Annabelle Malins served as Her Majesty’s Consul General in Atlanta from September 2009 to August 2013. She lead a team which worked throughout the southeast to support British nationals, conduct public diplomacy on key issue…

  • Anne Aichroth was the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Costa Rica and Nicaragua from September 2017 to September 2022. Prior to this, her career has focused on the Arab world, including Head of the Political …

  • Anne Dixon joined Innovate UK in August 2014 and is the Chief Operating Officer responsible for Operations, HR, IT, Customer Service and Governance. She also is a Non-Executive Director of UKSBS Ltd, a member of the BIS Exec…

  • Anne was previously Director of Delivery and Development (South) for the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), the organisation which was responsible for providing leadership and support to NHS trusts and whose responsibili…

  • Anne was appointed Panel Chair and Panel Member Non-executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on 1 October 2016, having been an Inquiry Chair since 2014. She is also a member of the CMA’s specialist c…