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Sally was appointed to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel in July 2022 and was reappointed in November 2025 for a period of 3 years. Sally is a Registered Children’s Nurse. She has 42 years of experience in the NH…
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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 currently Development Director for the British Deputy High Commission in Islamabad, where he oversees the UK Government’s development partnership and portfolio of development programmes with Pakistan. He has s…
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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…
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Samantha Dunger became Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Croatia in August 2024. She joined the Foreign Office in 2008. Since then her roles have included Head of NATO Strategy and Engagement, Head of MENAD Ge…
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Samantha Durrant has worked as a senior leader in a broad range of organisations across the public and private sectors. Previously, Samantha was the UK Chief Operating Officer of a global health and benefits consulting firm …
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Samantha Durrant has been a Non-Executive Director of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Board since April 2019. Samantha has worked in senior leadership roles across both public and private sectors and specialises in …
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Samantha Foley was appointed a Director of DCMS in September 2012. Sam studied English Literature and American studies at Keele University. She is also a Chartered Accountant. She began her career as a graduate accountancy t…
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Samantha Job was the Director for Defence and International Security at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) from March 2019 to August 2022. Samantha has been a career foreign service officer since 1992.…
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Samantha started her career as a general and paediatric nurse. Having completed the NHS Management Training Scheme, she worked in a variety of operational management roles across the NHS including as a chief executive for 2 …
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Samantha Smith was Chargé d’Affaire’s to Eswatini from December 2020 until July 2021. Before this she was the Deputy Ambassador in Mali, providing in country resilience as part of the UK response to COVID-19. Samantha joined…
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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 was previously Head of the Governor’s Office in Montserrat. He joined the Foreign Office in 2002, working first on South East Asia, and then the Overseas Territories. Sam’s first diplomatic posting was in Alban…
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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…