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Simon Judge joined the civil service in 1985. He spent the first half of his career in a variety of roles in HM Treasury, ranging from water privatisation to running the Treasury’s own Information Services team. Since then h…
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Simon Kendall began his career with the British government in 1996 and has extensive experience of policy-making in both the international trade and domestic security sectors. His first position with UK Export Finance was fo…
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Simon Kirby served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury (City Minister) from July 2016 until June 2017. He was elected as the MP for Brighton Kemptown in May 2010. Education Simon has a BSc(Hons) degree in Mathematical Mode…
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Simon Lebus became the interim Chief Regulator of Ofqual on 1 January 2021. He has a wealth of experience in education technology and curriculum delivery, most notably as Chief Executive of Cambridge Assessment from 2002 to …
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Simon Lightwood was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Transport in the Department for Transport 9 July 2024. Previously Simon was Shadow Transport Minister, appointed first in October 2022 and re-ap…
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Simon Manley CMG was the United Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization, United Nations and other International Organisations based in Geneva from April 2021 to July 2025. Simon has been a member o…
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Mr Simon Martin CMG was appointed as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco in February 2020. He presented his credentials to Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita on 28 September 2020. Prior to his appointmen…
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Simon was appointed Director General, Chief Digital and Information Officer in December 2018.
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Simon McKinnon CB CBE has extensive experience in technology leadership roles in both the public and private sectors. He spent sixteen years in the public sector responsible for child maintenance, health and pensions systems…
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A chartered engineer, Simon spent his early career in the Royal Navy nuclear submarine service with sea appointments in nuclear submarines interspaced with shore support jobs, one of which was the Naval Superintendent at Vul…
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Simon Morris was appointed as Director of Human Resources and Organisation Development for HM Land Registry in June 2020, joining the Civil Service after spending the first 25 years of his career in HR and commercial leaders…
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Simon Murray joined the Highways Agency Board as a non-executive director in 2012. He is a graduate of Imperial College and a chartered civil engineer. He spent the first nineteen years of his career working for consultant A…
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Simon Mustard was appointed Her Majesty’s British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone in April 2019. Prior to this appointment he was the Special Envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes Region from March 2017 to July 2019. Prior to join…
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Simon was appointed to the UKGI Board on 19 May 2016 and stepped down on 24 May 2019. Simon has had an extensive career in investment management, both in a principal and advisor capacity. He started his career at Chase Manha…
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Simon Parkes joined the Education Funding Agency (EFA) as Director, Finance and Maintained Schools in August 2012, before becoming Chief Financial Officer in January 2013. His previous career highlights include: Director, Fi…
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Simon Parkes was appointed Chief Financial Officer (SFA) in January 2016. He is also Chief Financial Officer at the Education Funding Agency . His previous career highlights include: Director, Finance and Commercial, Departm…
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Simon Penney was His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner (HTMC) for the Middle East and Pakistan. He was appointed in May 2018. Simon was also His Majesty’s Consul General (HMCG) to Dubai, appointed in January 2021. Simon spent the…
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Simon Perryman is an independent skills consultant and former Executive Director at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. He led the Commission’s work striving for more collective action by employers through stronger …
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Simon Polito (appointed in January 2012) was a City Solicitor with international law firm Hogan Lovells. He has over 30 years’ experience as a specialist in UK and EU competition law and has practised both in London and Brus…
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Simon Reeve is an Independent Director with significant international leadership experience spanning maritime, environment, energy & technology sectors. His board experience includes working with private and public secto…
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Simon Ricketts is Chief Information Officer of Rolls Royce PLC, a position he has held since 2010, where he is accountable for IT and business process transformation. He has extensive experience of leading large and complex …
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Simon has previously served as: Head of the Cabinet Office COVID-19 Taskforce, from March 2020 to March 2022 Director General, Withdrawal Agreement, Transition Taskforce, from January 2020 to March 2020 Director General Futu…
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Simon Sapper has 30 years’ experience as a senior national trade union official, first with Prospect and then the Communications Workers’ Union. He is currently Director of Makes-You-Think Consultancy, a trustee of Unions 21…
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Simon Sheldon-Wilson joined the Highways Agency in 2007 and was appointed Director of Traffic Management in 2010. Simon is responsible for the agency’s traffic officers, National Traffic Operations Centre and Regional Contro…
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Simon Shercliff was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Iran in August 2021. Previously he was Director for National Security at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) from February 2018. He also served …
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Simon Smith has been British Ambassador to the Republic of Korea since March 2018. He first visited North and South Korea in 2002-4 when he was Head of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s NE Asia & Pacif…
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Mr Simon Thomas OBE is a senior British diplomat. Simon joined the Diplomatic Service in 1997, after graduating from Birmingham University with a first class Honours Degree in Russian Language and Literature. He has served …
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Simon Toole was Director, Licensing and Legal at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) from 2015 to 2017. In this role he was responsible for oil and gas licensing, exploration and development, and methane and CO2 storage. He prev…
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Simon Tooth became Chargé d’Affaires a.i. in Monrovia in May 2025. Before this, Simon was Head of the West Africa Section. Simon joined the FCDO in 2007. He has been previously posted overseas in Yaoundé, where he worked in …
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Simon Tse was appointed Chief Executive of the Crown Commercial Service in 2018. He first joined CCS in May 2016 and led the Procurement Operations directorate. He served as interim CEO from July 2018 until his permanent app…
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Simon Virley was appointed Director General for the Markets and Infrastructure Group at the Department of Energy & Climate Change ( DECC ) in September 2009. In this role he leads government’s work on energy markets and …
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Simon Walker CBE was appointed Chair-Designate of the Trade Remedies Authority in February 2020 and was then appointed Chair in June 2021. Simon previously served as lead non-executive director of the Department for Internat…
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Mr Simon Walters was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the State of Israel in July 2023. Previously, Simon was Director National Security for Middle East and Africa at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (…
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Simon Webb CBE, FICE, specialises in major programmes and strategic change. An Executive Director at Nichols Group, he has led their work on nuclear decommissioning and warships for the last 10 years, at sites in England, Sc…
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Simon Wood arrived in Brazil as HM Consul-General to Rio de Janeiro in August 2017. In addition to leading the UK government’s presence in Rio de Janeiro, he leads the UK government’s work across Brazil on climate and energy…
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Simon was the interim Director of Communication at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from April to October 2018. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies and was previously Director of Communications and …
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Sinead O’Sullivan was the Director of Delivery from September 2013 and Accounting Officer from September 2015 for the NCTL to March 2018.
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Siobhan Duffy joined UK Government Investments in 2021 to lead the Contingent Liability Central Capability (CLCC), an analytical and advisory unit set up to strengthen contingent liability expertise across government. Prior …
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Sir Adam Thomson KCMG served as the UK Permanent Representative to NATO from 2014 to 2016. Full Name: Mr Adam Thomson Married to: Fariba Shirazi Thomson Children: Three *2010-2013 British High Commissioner to Pakistan 2006-2…
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Adrian Johns served for 35 years in the Royal Navy specialising as a helicopter pilot and flying instructor but also commanding 5 times at sea in ships ranging from a minesweeper to HMS OCEAN, Britain’s largest warship at th…
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Knighted in 2011 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001, Sir Adrian is a distinguished statistician and currently the vice-chancellor at the University of London. He previously served as Director General, Knowledg…
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Alan Massey became the Chief Executive, Maritime and Coastguard Agency in July 2010. Before joining the MCA, Alan was in the Royal Navy, where he was Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command, in the rank of…
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Sir Alec Douglas-Home served as Prime Minister between 1963 to 1964. Read more about the life and achievements of Sir Alec Douglas-Home in our past Prime Ministers section.
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Sir Alex Allan had a long career in the civil service, including roles as Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and to the Prime Minister; as High Commissioner to Australia; as the Government’s ‘e-En…
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Alex Chisholm became Chief Operating Officer for the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office in April 2020. Prior to that he was the Permanent Secretary to the Department for Business, Energy and Industr…
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Sir Andrew is a former UK Ambassador to Israel, and was UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust issues from June 2010 to September 2015. Sir Andrew’s career includes the following positions: British Ambassador to Israel, 1992 to…
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Sir Andrew Dilnot is Warden of Nuffield College Oxford and Chair of the Geospatial Commission. He was Chairman of the UK Statistics Authority from 2012 to 2017, and was the Chairman of the Commission on the Funding of Care a…
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Sir Andrew Witty was the BIS Lead Non-Executive until February 2014. Andrew became CEO of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in May 2008. Before this he held a variety of roles within the company both in the UK and overseas before being …