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Paul O’Connor started his career in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2013. He has worked in Somalia, New York and Brussels, and has had various roles in London, most recently leading the Political Team cov…

Paul is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Chief Project Director with a strong engineering background and experience of Operations and Project Management having worked on major civil engineering projects in a wide variety of …

Paul Pugh was previously Registrar General for England and Wales.

Paul Rennie is British Consul General.  Based in Los Angeles, he is the senior representative of the UK government in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Hawaii, and the US Territories of American Samoa, Guam and Nor…

Paul Rew was non-executive board member in Defra from July 2011 to June 2018. He is also a non-executive director of Northumbrian Water Group plc and the Met Office, chairing their audit committees. Paul is also a member of …

Paul joined Sellafield in 1979 and has held a wide variety of leadership roles, including the commissioning of the waste vitrification lines and operations within existing nuclear facilities. His most recent role was head of…

Paul Ryder was appointed as GFSL’s Chief Executive Officer in February 2018. He is an experienced business leader and FM specialist experienced at operating in Corporate, private and public sector businesses. Before joining …

Paul Satoor became the Director of People and Transformation for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ) in September 2016. Paul had been DVSA ’s Director of Organisational Development and HR since June 2013, and wa…

Paul Scullion started as Head of the Public Finance and General Team in Treasury Legal Advisers in February 2024. He is undertaking the role as part of a job share. Career Paul was Legal Secretary to the Advocate General fro…

Paul Scully was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy) at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from 7 February 2023 to 13 November 2023. He was also Minister for L…

Before his appointment to the role of ICT Director, Paul was the Access to Justice IT Director in the Ministry of Justice, accountable for IT services for HM Courts Service, Tribunals Service and several arm’s-length bodies,…

Paul has worked in the nuclear industry since 2002. A member of the Institute of Physics, he joined Radioactive Waste Management in 2015 to lead a newly-formed team working with Sellafield and the Nuclear Decommissioning Aut…

Paul Smee is a former member of the Board at the Regulator of Social Housing. He was Director General of the Council of Mortgage Lenders from 2011 until it merged into UK Finance in July 2017.

Paul worked for the Ford Motor Company from 1978 until 2006 in a range of Finance roles. From 2003 to 2006 he was Finance Director of Ford’s UK Operations. Since 2006 Paul has pursued a portfolio career with Non Executive ro…

Paul Arkwright was the UK government’s COP26 Regional Ambassador to Sub-Saharan Africa from March to October 2020. Find out more about COP26 , the 2021 UN Climate Conference. Paul was the British High Commissioner to Nigeria…

Paul is accountable for Strategy and all aspects of Integrated Waste Management across Nuclear Waste Services. He originally joined the LLWR leadership team in 2021 from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. His background …

Paul Robert Turner was appointed British High Commissioner to Solomon Islands and Nauru in July 2024 and started in the role in January 2025. Paul’s experience covers the UK government and international organisations, includ…

Paul took up the role of Small Business Commissioner in October 2017. He graduated from Warwick University with a degree in Politics and Sociology and later ran his own small business based in the construction and real estat…

Paul joined the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in June 2016 from Rolls Royce, where he held a number of senior positions including Director of Communications and Marketing for the Land and Sea Division, which incorporated…

Paul Wallace is a seasoned specialist in employment relations and reward, with over two decades of experience in senior leadership roles across national organisations. His most recent position at NHS Employers involved leadi…

Paul Whiting is the Chief Finance Officer for DBS and the Deputy Chief Executive, a role which began in August 2014. His previous roles include executive director of finance and estates at Glyndwr university and held senior …

Paul Whittingham has been head of DFID Burma since 2008. He previously worked on Tanzania and China, and on international trade issues. Before joining DFID in 1998, Paul worked as an elections supervisor in Bosnia as well as…

Paul Williams was the interim Director for Development Engagement in the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office ( FCDO ) until January 2024. Before this Paul’s roles included: Open Societies Director at the FCDO , 202…

Paul Willmott was appointed as a non-executive director at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ( DSIT ) in November 2024. Paul was previously Chair of the Central Digital and Data Office, Chair of the Digit…

Paul Winkle joined Magnox Limited as Chief Operating Officer on 01 May 2020. Paul holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Glasgow University and began his career as a graduate trainee at GEC Alstom, before joining the …

Paul was appointed as a member of the ESFA Audit and Risk Committee in 2022 and a member of the ESFA Management Board in 2023. Until 2021 he was a partner at PA Consulting where he built and ran the education consulting prac…

Paula became the Agency’s Chief Operating Officer in 2024. She is part of the Agency’s Executive Committee contributing to the corporate leadership, strategic direction and management of the VOA, and is directly accountable …

Paula Leach served as the Chief People Officer for the Home Office from 2016 until 2109. Paula had overall responsibility for all our employee and health and safety Policies, reward, recruitment, learning and skills and our …

Paula Pitcher was Director of People for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ) from February 2020 to April 2025. Paula has been an HR professional in a range of disciplines for over 20 years, taking on various rol…

Paula Robinson is the Release 1 Project Director the Disclosure and Barring Service. She has worked for IBM for 20 years and spent the last 10 years as a programme manager on systems delivery programmes for government depart…

Paula Sussex joined the Student Loans Company (SLC) in September 2018. Paula has extensive leadership experience, particularly in delivering large-scale transformation and change programmes and services in the public, privat…

Paula Vennells started her career with Unilever and L’Oreal. She was the Chief Executive of Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019. She was Group Commercial Director for Whitbread Plc and held directorships in sales and marke…

Paula Walsh has been the HM Consul General in Rio de Janeiro since August 2010. Paula has a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University and worked for British Gas and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London before joini…

Paulette Simpson is the executive, corporate affairs and public policy at Jamaica National’s (JN) representative office in the United Kingdom (UK), and executive director of The Voice - Britain’s top black newspaper that has…

Pauline Reeves became the Director of Driver Services at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) in November 2024. Pauline was previously Head of the Road Safety Division at the Department for Transport (DfT). Pauline…

Penny was appointed as HMRC Director General for Customer Compliance Group in September 2017. Between September 2009 and September 2017, Penny was Chief Executive of the Valuation Office Agency (VOA). Before that she spent t…

Penny Fell is the Commercial Director and is responsible for overseeing all the organisation’s commercial activities. Prior to joining DBS, Penny was Director of Commercialisation, Citizens and Shareholder Liaison for Bristo…

Penny joined the IPO in May 2022 as Director of People and Place.  Penny has a degree in History from the University of Manchester, a Masters in Human Resource Management from the University of the West of England, and has h…

Having undertaken the role on an interim basis since February 2025, Pete was appointed Executive Director of Inspections and Enforcement in December 2025. Career Pete joined the SIA in 2010 following a successful career in U…

Pete Knollmeyer is the Vice President of Nuclear/Environmental Operations within Fluor’s decommissioning business line and is seconded to Magnox as their Challenge and Organisational Learning Director. He recently completed …

Pete joined the NDA in March 2014 from Jacobs, the US based engineering company, where he spent five years ultimately as Vice President of Jacob’s UK North business. Prior to that, he had over 22 years in the UK nuclear indu…

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Pete Vowles has been the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe since October 2023. Prior to this he was the Transformation Director at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Previously Pete was Chargé D’Affaires a…

Dr Peter Abbott OBE has been a member of the Diplomatic Service since 2005. He served as British Consul General to New England from 2020 to 2024 and as Counsellor at the British High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 2…

Peter Adams was appointed Major Projects Director in January 2012. He is responsible for the government’s strategic roads programme, managed motorway schemes, and the development of future projects. Before joining the agency…

Peter was appointed as Delivery Director for the East West Railway Company on 22 November 2017. Peter has many years’ senior leadership experience, both in the rail industry and outside. Peter was Managing Director of London…