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Ruth Davis OBE was appointed UK Special Representative for Nature on 15 November 2024. Ruth studied English Language and Liter…
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Ruth Duffin was appointed as Public Guardian and Chief Executive for the Office of the Public Guardian in April 2025.
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Ruth Dunphy joined HS2 in October 2025 as Chief Transformation Officer at a pivotal moment in the delivery of the UK’s largest Rail Infrastructure programme. As part of the Executive Committee, Ruth is leading HS2’s Transfor…
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Ruth Edwards was previously Assistant Government Whip between 16 February 2023 and 25 April 2024. She was previously Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) between 7 February 2023 and 16 February 2023.
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Ruth Elliot took up the role of Chief Financial Officer at Innovate UK in October 2016. Ruth joined the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy in August 2010 as the Department’s financial controller and th…
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After completing a Geography degree at Durham University, Ruth qualified as an accountant with Deloitte. Since then, Ruth has held a number of roles across the public sector including policy and finance roles at the Departme…
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Ruth Hannant and Polly Payne became Directors General for Policy at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) as a job-share in July 2023, adding a number of responsibilities to their previous role as Directors Gene…
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Ruth May is the Chief Nursing Officer for England and an Executive/National Director at NHS England and NHS Improvement. Prior to this, she was Executive Director of Nursing at NHS Improvement from 2016 to 2019, and Director…
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Before joining HMRC, Ruth was Work Services Director and Deputy Chief Operating Officer at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). She was previously Chief Operating Officer in Jobcentre Plus. She has spent two spells in…
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Prior to assuming her role as Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy Riga in April 2018, Ruth worked as Economic and Prosperity Officer at the British Consulate General Istanbul. Ruth joined the Foreign, Commonwealth …
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Ruth joined HMRC as Director of Indirect Tax in March 2016, and has led on Customs and Indirect Tax since early 2017. Since joining the Civil Service in the 1990s, she has led a range of policy work in different departments …
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Ruth joined HS2 in July 2021. She is a member of both the Executive Team, reporting directly to Chief Executive Mark Thurston, and the HS2 Board. Ruth will head up the new Commercial Directorate, where she will have responsi…
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Ruth Tomlinson is a Legal Director in Home Office Legal Advisers in the Government Legal Department. She leads the policing, crime and national security team, as well as being Legal Director for the Northern Ireland Office.…
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Ruth Wayte joined the Legal Aid Agency in July 2003 as deputy legal director. She’s been a member of the executive team since 2010. Her previous roles include: Legal Director, Legal Services Commission Deputy Legal Director,…
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Ryan Shorthouse is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. Ryan is the Founder and Executive Chair of the independent think tank, Bright Blue. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at King’s College London and a Trustee of the Wha…
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Ryan Williams is the Chief Economist at Enoda, an electricity grid technology company based in Edinburgh. He was previously a Director at Grant Thornton UK, specialising in energy economics. Ryan was also a Principal at Oxer…
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Sachin Jogia is a Non-Executive Director at HM Revenue and Customs (appointed September 2025), and a Non-Executive Board member at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (appointed on 18 March 2025). Sachin h…
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Sadie Morgan BA (HONS), MA (RCA), FRSA is a co-founding director at the award-winning practice, dRMM Architects. She became the youngest and only third ever-female President of the Architectural Association in 2013. In March…
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He is the founding chief executive of Youth Leads UK, a charity he established aged 15 and has supported more than 7,000 disadvantaged young Greater Mancunians access volunteering opportunities and skills development program…
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Sally Axworthy was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Kazakhstan in August 2025. Her previous roles include time as His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Holy See, Joint Head of the North Africa Department, Head of the Great La…
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Sally Collier was appointed Chief Regulator of Ofqual in April 2016. Her previous roles include: Chief Executive, Crown Commercial Service Managing Director, Government Procurement Service Director of Procurement Policy and …
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Sally Dixon brings HR and change experience to the Board, with over 20 years’ experience at the professional services firm PwC, advising clients how to deal with people issues during times of change, in particular during mer…
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Sally Hedley has been the Deputy British High Commissioner to Tanzania since July 2024. She joined the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (formerly Foreign and Commonwealth Office) in 2010, and has served overseas…
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Sally Jones joined the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) as the interim Head of the Corporate Centre in September 2015 and left LAA on 22 September 2017. Her previous roles include: Private Secretary to Jonathan Djanogly, minister for …
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Sally Jones-Evans was a Non-Executive Director at the Department for International Development from March 2017 to August 2020. Sally sat on the Departmental Board and was also a member of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committ…
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Sally Langrish was appointed Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Legal Adviser (Director General, Legal) on 1 May 2022. Sally first joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Legal Directorate in 1995, working o…
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Sally has held senior digital transformation roles in the public, private and third sector for over 20 years. Recently, she has been the founder/chief executive officer of the Centre for Digital Public Services in Wales, an …
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Sally Randall was appointed Director General for Environment at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 14 October 2024. Before this, Sally was Director General of Food, Biosecurity and Trade from August 20…
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Sally was appointed to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel from 1 July 2022 to 14 November 2025. Sally is a Registered Children’s Nurse with 42 years experience in the NHS, most recently as Chief Nurse and Acting De…
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Sally Sparrow was appointed to the Independent Living Fund’s board of trustees in April 2006 and chairs the User Personal Case Committee and the Remuneration Committee. Sally is a qualified social worker and previously worke…
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Sally Warren was appointed as Director General for Adult Social Care in October 2025. Before joining DHSC in July 2024, she was Director of Policy at The King’s Fund, a health think tank. Before joining The King’s Fund, Sal…
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Sam was appointed as Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury in May 2023. Prior to this, she was Second Permanent Secretary at the ONS and the Deputy Chief Executive at the UK Statistics Authority in September 2020. In this r…
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Sam is currently the Director for Strategy and Planning, Rail Passenger Services, in the Department’s Rail Strategy and Services Group.
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Sam took up the role of Deputy Director, Head of Director General’s Office for HM Prison and Probation Service in April 2019.
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Sam is the author of Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a ‘Good’ Sense of Humour and co-author of Social Class in the 21st Century. His book with Daniel Laurison, The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged…
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Sam Gyimah was a joint Minister for Higher Education at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Education from January to November 2018. He was elected the Conservative MP for East …
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Sam Jeremy arrived in Kinshasa as Deputy Head of Mission in July 2022. He joined the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in 2007, having previously worked in the UK and Azerbaijan as an engineer. He has had d…
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Sam Lister became the Director General for Industrial Strategy at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) in November 2024. As Director General for Industrial Strategy, Sam is responsible for shaping and delivering the U…
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Sam Pass arrived in August 2020 as the British Deputy High Commissioner to New Zealand. Prior to arriving in New Zealand she worked in London for six years on international and national security issues, including as Deputy H…
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Sam Rowbury has been Policy Delivery Director at CCS since 2014. He was appointed a member of the CCS board in February 2016. Sam joined the Civil Service in 1996 and started his career in the Department of the Environment. …
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Sam Sharpe has been the country head of DFID India since September 2010. He has worked for DFID and its predecessor since 1985, with previous postings in Malawi and South Africa. Sam was DFID’s finance director from 2007 to …
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Sam Ulyatt was appointed Chief Executive of Crown Commercial Service (CCS) in 2024. With a wealth of experience in both the public and private sectors, Sam brings deep commercial expertise and a commitment to delivering valu…
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Sam is a chartered engineer with over 25 years’ involvement in the nuclear industry, specialising in nuclear waste management and decommissioning. He has a broad range of senior management experience delivering across operat…
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Sam Waldock is British Deputy High Commissioner to Zambia. He has served as Deputy High Commissioner to Zambia and Development Director since August 2022. Prior to joining the Zambia team, Sam worked at the British High Comm…
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Sam Younger joined the Charity Commission as CEO in September 2010. Sam has extensive experience of leadership in regulation, in public policy and within the charity sector. His previous roles include: Chair, Electoral Commi…
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Samantha Dixon was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on 6 September 2025. She was previously Vice-Chamberlain of HM Household (Government Whip) betw…