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A training and development professional, Paul worked with ScottishPower between 1990 and 2007. He headed up ScottishPower Learning, a partnership between the company and its trade unions that helped train the company’s emplo…

Paul was appointed Chief Executive Officer of UK Industrial Fusion Solutions Ltd in October 2023. He joined the STEP programme in September 2020 from the Ministry of Defence, where he was Director of Submarine Acquisition at…

Paul has over 30 years’ experience working as a senior official in the UK trade union movement holding positions in several unions including GMB, Nautilus International, the Society of Radiographers, the Pharmacists Defence …

Paul Morris served as Deputy Head of Mission and HM Consul at the British Embassy Yerevan from May 2022 to August 2026. Previously he was Deputy Head of the FCDO’s Consular EU Policy Network in London. He has served in vario…

Paul Morrison is the Director General for Immigration and Citizenship Service at the Home Office. Before this he served as Director General for Visas, Passports, Citizenship and Resettlement Services at the Home Office from …

Paul Morton was appointed as an HM Revenue and Customs non-executive director in September 2019. He was Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification from March 2017 to January 2019. Before that he was Tax Director for RE…

Paul Mullins has been a mergers and acquisitions adviser for 30 years. He has also been a member of the Independent Advisory Panel of the Regional Growth Fund and served as a Commissioner on the Ownership Commission. He is c…

Paul became Chief Risk Officer in March 2026 having previously been the Deputy Chief Risk Officer since 2019. Prior to joining Homes England, Paul spent 27 years in the private sector working in a number of banks and lending…

Paul is Director of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) at UK Export Finance (UKEF). He has been with UKEF since May 2022 in the process bringing together digital, technology, data and change and transformations teams from a…

Paul Newby is the independent Pubs Code Adjudicator. He took up his appointment on 2 May 2016. From 1969 to 1977 Paul Newby attended Solihull School, where he is now a Governor, with primary responsibility for the school’s p…

Paul was appointed as Assistant Chief Executive (Strategic Direction of Service) in April 1995, becoming Assistant Director (Policy and Planning) after the Service Children’s Education headquarters reorganisation in Septembe…

Paul joined Building Digital UK (BDUK) as Executive Chair in December 2020 and became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) in April 2021, leading the delivery of digital infrastructure investm…

Paul O’Connor has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Ljubljana since August 2026. Prior to Slovenia, Paul was Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Pristina from 2023 to 2026. He has also served…

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 Richard Simister currently serves as His Majesty’s Ambassador to Liberia, based in Monrovia. He joined the British civil service in 2016 and has worked primarily on the West Africa region. His previous overseas postings…

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 is the British High Commissioner to Solomon Islands and Naoero since January 2025. He was appointed British High Commissioner to Solomon Islands and Naoero in July 2024 . Paul’s experience covers the UK go…

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 Waugh was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education on 22 July 2026. He was elected as the MP for Rochdale in July 2024.

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…