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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Anne MacColl is an international Executive with 10 years senior and Executive Leadership level and 12 years’ experience living and working overseas. With an MBA from Strathclyde Business School and an M.A. Honours Language d…
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Ms Anne Macro was appointed Her Majesty’s High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Lesotho in April 2019. Prior to this appointment, she was Deputy Head of the FCDO’s Projects Task Force. From 2011 to 2015 she was non-resident De…
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Anne Marie Carrie is Chief Executive of Kensington and Chelsea Education Ltd, providing advice and guidance to organisations working in education, child protection and welfare. She is a Non-Executive Director of Basildon and…
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Anne Marie Wallace became interim Director of Service Delivery at the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) as a job-share in February 2022, along side Michelle Reynolds and Nicola Hirst .
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Anne Sherriff was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium in 2024. Anne has previously served in Paris as interim Deputy Trade Commissioner for Europe where she was responsible for supporting British bus…
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Anne Spinali became the Shareholder Executive’s non executive board member for Companies House in December 2013. Prior to her appointment as the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ ( BIS ) lead sponsor for Compan…
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Anne Willcocks joined the Insolvency Service as Head of Policy Directorate in 2009 and is now External Affairs Director. Anne has been involved in policy initiatives, such as debtor petition reform. She has also worked to im…
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Anne-Marie Choho started her career with AREVA in France 29 years ago. After 3 years as a research and development engineer, she held several engineering positions in France in nuclear fuel reprocessing, nuclear waste treatm…
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Anne-Marie Millar, Finance, Assurance and Commercial Director, joined the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) in July 2011. Her previous roles include: Director, Finance, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Di…
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Anne-Toni Rodgers is recently retired and runs her own management consultancy. A pharmacologist by training she has over 35 years healthcare experience in both the public and private sector. She was a founding Director of th…
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Annelies is Deputy CEO (job share) at the UK Space Agency. Together with Chris White-Horne, she is responsible for the delivery of all the UK Space Agency’s major programmes, from space science, exploration and Earth Observa…
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Annetje Ottow was appointed Non-Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Board on 15 July 2013. She is a member of the Remuneration Committee. She is also: Vice President of the Executive Board, Utre…
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Ansel Wong is a Trinidadian cultural and political activist, who has been influential in many organisations particularly in the black community in the UK, where he has been based since the 1960s. He is the former Chair of th…
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Anthony Browne was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Transport from 13 November 2023 to 5 July 2024. Following the publication of the UK government’s Fraud Strategy, he was previously appointed as …
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Anthony Cary CMG was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner.
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Anthony Finkelstein was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security from December 2015 to June 2021. His research is based at The Alan Turing Institute and he holds a Chair in Software Systems Engineering at University Co…
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Anthony Impey is an entrepreneur with experience of starting and scaling several businesses. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Be the Business - an organisation working to improve productivity of businesses across the cou…
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Anthony Inglese trained and worked as a lawyer in the Home Office. He became Head Lawyer at the Office of Fair Trading in 1991; then Head Lawyer at the Ministry of Defence in 1995; and in 1997 he was appointed Deputy Treasur…
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Anthony joined UK Government Investments at its creation on 1 April 2016. Previously, Anthony was part of the Shareholder Executive which he joined in October 2010 to head the Portfolio Unit. He has over 20 years banking exp…
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Anthony took up his post as HM Consul-General to Chongqing and South West China in August 2023. Anthony joined the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (now Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) in 2002. His previo…
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Anthony led the Capital Projects Team within the Oil and Pipelines Agency ( OPA ), a new team established in 2017 to assist the Ministry of Defence with the delivery of major Capital Projects across the six OFDs operated by …
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Anthony Stern was appointed as a panel member in 2005. His appointment ended on 18 March 2015.
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Antonia was appointed as Chief Financial Officer, Director of Property and Corporate Services of UKAEA in February 2019. Career highlights include: Chief Financial Officer of Roc Technologies Ltd including a successful acqui…
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Antonia Williams was appointed Director General Road Transport in the Department for Transport ( DfT ) on 8 January 2026.
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Antony Jenkins was appointed Chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships on 27 February 2017. The Institute for Apprenticeships became the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education on 31 January 2019 on the commen…
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Antony Phillipson took up his appointment as British High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa in July 2021. Antony joined the Civil Service in 1993 and has held a number of posts in the UK government. Previous roles…
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Mr Anwar Choudhury succeeded Mrs Helen Kilpatrick CB as Governor of the Cayman Islands on 26th March 2018. Mr Choudhury joined the FCO in 2003 having served in the private sector, the Royal Air Force, the Ministry of Defence…
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As Chief Economist, Aproop leads a team of economists and statisticians who provide analysis and evidence to support trade remedy investigations. Prior to this, he was a Senior Economic Adviser in the Analysis Group at the D…
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Arabel Bailey was appointed Interim Lead Non-Executive Director at the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) on 1 January 2026. Arabel joined DWP as a Non-Executive Director in September 2021, and was appointed as the per…
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Archibald Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery served as Prime Minister between 1894 to 1895. Read more about the life and achievements of Archibald Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Archie Norman was lead non-executive board member at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) from 2016 to 2020. Archie is the Chairman of Marks & Spencer as well as the Chairman of Lazard UK. H…
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Ambassador Archie Young is the Interim Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, New York. He was previously appointed Ambassador to the UN General Assembly in January 2024. He previously served as the UK’s Lead Climate Neg…
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Arfan Chaudhry was appointed as the International Director at the UK Space Agency in June 2021, responsible for international engagement through multilateral and bilateral frameworks, capturing the wider societal benefits of…
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Arik Dondi, External Relations Director, joined the Rural Payments Agency ( RPA ) in November 2013. Before joining the RPA , Arik worked in various roles at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( Defra ) includ…
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Arthur James Balfour served as Prime Minister between 1902 to 1905. Read more about the life and achievements of Arthur James Balfour in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Arthur Snell was born in the south-east of England and educated at Oxford University, where he studied History. After graduating with First Class Honours he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth office. After an initial spell …
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Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington served as Prime Minister between 1828 to 1830 and 1834 to 1834. Read more about the life and achievements of Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Ash Smith is the Director of GOV.UK. He was appointed in September 2024 on an interim basis, joining from his role in GDS as Deputy Director of the GOV.UK One Login programme. Prior to GDS, Ash was Deputy Director for negoti…
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Ashley Dalton MP was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention in the Department of Health and Social Care on 10 February 2025. She was elected as the MP for West Lancashire on 9 Febru…
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Ashley Ibbett is Director General for Energy Infrastructure at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DESNZ ) and Shareholder Non-Executive Director for DfT Operator Limited. Ashley was Director General for Energy…
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Ashley Machin left his role as Lead Non-Executive Director at the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) on 31 December 2025. He was appointed as a Departmental Board member in November 2017, and was Lead Non-Executive Dir…
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Ashok joined the UK Government in Wales in July 2018 as the Director of Communications. Before working for the UK Government, Ashok ran a successful bilingual communications agency based in Cardiff. Before that he worked for…
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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office British High Commissioner to Jamaica, August 2017 to August 2021 British Ambassador to the Philippines and Palau, July 2013 to July 2017 British Ambassador to Thailand and Laos,…