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Samir is the Chief Risk Officer at UK Export Finance. Samir is also a member of UKEF’s Executive Committee and Management Board. From October to December 2022, Samir was UKEF’s interim Chief Executive Officer. Before joining…
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Sammy Wright is currently vice principal of Southmoor Academy in Sunderland. Between 2002 and 2014 he taught in London, experiencing the full range of contexts from deprived and multi-ethnic inner city comprehensives to the …
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Samuel Paice has been Head of the Governor’s Office in Montserrat since March 2025. He joined the Foreign Office in 2002, working first on South East Asia, and then the Overseas Territories. Sam’s first diplomatic posting …
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Samuel Thomas was appointed Her Majesty’s first ever resident Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in May 2018. Samuel has worked in the public and private sector, focusing on energy, trade and terrorism. He join…
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Sandra has been Managing Director of Marketing, UK Trade & Investment since 2012. She is a professional marketeer with a career spanning 30 years in the private sector.
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Sandra Tyler-Haywood is First Secretary and Head of Governor’s Office. She arrived in the Falkland Islands in December 2012 having previously served as HM Ambassador in Eritrea and worked in Iraq, Eastern Caribbean, Portugal…
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Sandra Wallace was appointed as interim chair of the Social Mobility Commission on 10 July 2020. Sandra is a partner and joint managing director for the UK & Europe at DLA Piper, a global law firm active across the Ameri…
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Sandy Balfour is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. Former CEO, Canon Collins Educational and Legal Assistance Trust.
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Sandy Domaingue has been Deputy Head of Mission and HM Consul at the British Embassy in Montevideo since March 2022. During her career she has worked on a wide range of issues including War Crimes, North Africa, Consular, Ec…
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Sandy Kapila joined the Rural Payments Agency in January 2012 from Defra, where he spent 14 years in various roles. Across his career he has developed experiences of Programme and Project Management; HR; Governmental Finance…
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Sandy Moss became the Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe in August 2021. Find out more about Sandy Moss .
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Sandy took up her appointment as Deputy Ambassador at the British Embassy in Lima in June 2022. She joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2014 after working for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of…
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Sandy Storrie in his 35 years in the British Army led the “Desert Rats” in Iraq, served as an Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff, taught at the Royal College of Defence Studies, and was deputy head of the NATO mission in A…
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Sanjay has been Deputy Director for DDaT at BDUK since January 2021. Prior to this, Sanjay was working as an Enterprise Architect for HM Revenue & Customs. In his career, he worked with local authority, food retailer and…
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Sanjay Wadvani is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in July 1987. He has broad experience from several overseas postings, including China, India, the Middle East and South America, as w…
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Saqib Bhatti was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology between 13 November 2023 and 5 July 2024.
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Saqib Hussain is the Operational Manager of the Digital Forensics unit of The Insolvency Service. Saqib has a first-class honours degree in Psychology, and a distinction in forensic psychology master’s programme, with specia…
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Sara became the Regulator of Community Interest Companies in September 2007. As a light touch regulator, Sara’s key role is to raise awareness of community interest companies and maintain public confidence in the CIC legal f…
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Sara Halton was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Crown Commercial Service in September 2022. Sara has held key senior executive positions at well-known British brands, including as Chief Executive Officer of Molton B…
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Dame Sara Khan was appointed by the Prime Minister as the government’s Independent Adviser for Social Cohesion and Resilience in March 2021. She was tasked with producing an independent Review with recommendations to build r…
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Sara has over 25 years’ experience as a criminal barrister. She both prosecuted and defended cases from Red Lion Chambers. At the Bar she specialised in fraud, criminal insolvency and regulatory offences. Before coming to th…
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Ms Sara Pickering took up her appointment as Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy to Kazakhstan in December 2014. Sara joined the FCO in 1988 and has served overseas in Budapest, Islamabad, Lagos, Kyiv and Pretoria. She g…
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Ms Thornton has worked in policing since 1986, when she joined the Metropolitan Police. During her 33 year career within policing she served as Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police from 2007 until 2015 and was appointed t…
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Sara Todd has extensive experience in local and regional government. She is currently the Chief Executive at Trafford Council, as well as being Lead Chief Executive for Technical Education, Work and Skills for Greater Manche…
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Current Sara is a Non-Executive Director of Lloyds Banking Group Plc and of United Utilities. She is also a visiting fellow at the Said Business School at Oxford University and a member of the Higher Education Funding Counci…
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Sarah Albon was appointed as the HSE ’s Chief Executive in September 2019. Sarah also acts as Mediation Champion for the Civil Service, working with colleagues across Whitehall to publicise the benefits of mediation in the w…
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Sarah Atherton was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Defence People, Veterans and Service Families) at the Ministry of Defence between 20 September 2022 and 27 October 2022. She was elected as the Member o…
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Sarah Atkinson joined the Charity Commission in June 2006 as Head of Corporate Affairs. She was appointed Director of Policy and Communications in October 2014. Before joining the commission, Sarah built her experience in co…
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Hannah Rignell and Sarah Baker are Deputy Directors of the Disability Unit in Cabinet Office (job share). The Disability Unit aims to works across government to deliver the National Disability Strategy and to improve the liv…
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Hannah Rignell and Sarah Baker are Deputy Directors of the Disability Unit in Cabinet Office (job share). The Disability Unit aims to works across government to deliver the National Disability Strategy and to improve the liv…
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Sarah Bell was made a partner at Moore & Blatch Solicitors in May 2003. She headed up the marine department and co-headed the regulatory department. Sarah Bell was appointed as Traffic Commissioner for the West of Englan…
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Sarah Bennett took up her appointment as Deputy Head of the UK Mission to ASEAN in April 2019. She joined the FCO in 2006, after a career in the Royal Navy and completing a PhD in International Politics. She has also worked …
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Sarah is Interim Engagement, International and Inspiration Director, responsible for overseeing the UK Space Agency’s inspiration and outreach activities and leading on how we engage with audiences on the growing importance …
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Sarah Cardell was appointed as Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ) on 19 December 2022. Sarah Cardell was previously appointed as General Counsel at the Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ) …
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Sarah Castle has been appointed as the Official Solicitor and Public Trustee and took up her post on 4 July 2019. Sarah is the first women to be appointed to the role of OS. Sarah undertook articles with Kent County Council …
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Sarah is a Panel Member of the CMA (and previously the Competition Commission), and of its communications and utility panel, since 2013. She is also: Member of the Qualifications Committee of the Bar Standards Board Panel Me…
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Sarah was appointed Executive Director of Local Operations at the Environment Agency in November 2023. Sarah was Chief Operating Officer between August and November 2023. Sarah has had a wide range of roles at The Environmen…
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Sarah is responsible for the organisational performance and intelligence, change management and business improvement and strategy and business development functions within DBS. Prior to this she was Associate Director of Str…
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Sarah is the Commercial Director and Head of Commercial Profession with overall responsibility for the Commercial Function in the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). She is an accredited Commercial Specialist at SCS2 level an…
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Sarah Connolly is the Interim Director General for Digital, Technology and Infrastructure at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). She was appointed in August 2025. Sarah was previously Director for D…
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Sarah Cooke is the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh. She joined the Civil Service in 2002 and has served in a range of roles in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Department for International Developm…
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Sarah Cooper is the Regional Development Director for FCDO in Central Asia. In a career spanning over 25 years, Sarah has worked in more than 30 countries across Sub-Saharan and North Africa, the Middle East, South, Central,…
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Ms Cowley took up her position as the Deputy Head of Mission Madrid in August 2021. Previously she was British Ambassador to Latvia 2013 to 2017 and Head of the then FCO’s Prosperity Fund department, 2017 to 2020. Sarah join…
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Sarah de Gay joined international law firm Slaughter and May in 1996, as a Corporate/M&A lawyer, and established its Compliance Department in 2008. She was appointed as Slaughter and May’s first General Counsel in 2015. …
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Sarah Dickson OBE was the British High Commissioner to The Bahamas from August 2019 to July 2022. She has served in the British Diplomatic Service for more than 20 years, and her previous diplomatic appointment was as Her Ma…
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Sarah Dines was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Home Office from 27 October 2022 to 13 November 2023. She was previously Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) between 20 September 2022 and 27 October 2…
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Sarah joined The Adjudicator’s Office in July 2017. Sarah is the Deputy Head of Office and also leads on Insight, Engagement and Learning having previously led on Business Management and Transformation. Before joining The A…
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Sarah Dunn has been Head of DFID Southern Africa since August 2011. With over 15 years of experience working on international development for DFID she has worked in Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Rwanda); the Caribbea…