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Sarah Mooney is His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for the Middle East and Pakistan, and British Consul General to Dubai and the Northern Emirates, taking up the role in February 2025. Prior to taking up this role, Sarah was t…
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Sarah Munby was the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ( DSIT ) from February 2023 and July 2025. Sarah led the department since its inception in 2023, alongside its original respons…
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Sarah Newton was Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from November 2017 to March 2019. She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office from 17 July 2016 to 9 November 2017. She was Con…
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Sarah Payne is Director, National Offender Management Service (NOMS) in Wales. From 1 June 2014, Sarah will have responsibility for the new National Probation Service in Wales, as well as responsibility for all Welsh prisons…
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Sarah became Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy Podgorica in October 2022. She has previously done postings in New Zealand, Uganda and New York and most recently in Moscow (2019 to 2022) where she was the Acting C…
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Curriculum Vitae 2018 to present FCDO, Head, Counter Proliferation and Arms Control Centre 2013 to 2017 Ambassador to Finland 2011 to 2013 FCO, Head, Arabian Peninsula and Iraq Department 2010 to 2011 Maternity leave 2009 to…
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Sarah Pumfrett is a Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA), Chartered Internal Auditor (CMIIA) and Specialist Member of the Institute of Risk Management (SIRM). She spent her executive career as an internal auditor and busine…
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Sarah was appointed to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel in November 2025 for a period of 4 years. Sarah is a GP of over 20 years. She works in Coventry where she specialises in primary care mental health and is r…
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Sarah Rapson was appointed Director General, UK Visas & Immigration in March 2014 (having been interim director general since April 2013). Sarah joined the civil service in 2005 as Operations Director at the Identity and…
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Sarah Richards had taken up post as The Planning Inspectorate Chief Executive in March 2016 and left this post in September 2022. Her previous role was Strategic Director Regeneration, Housing and Resources, at Slough Boroug…
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Sarah took up her appointment as Deputy British Ambassador to Denmark in July 2022. Prior to this appointment, she was Head of Gibraltar Policy Unit, FCDO. She has served as Deputy British Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2014 to…
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Sarah Russell is Director FCDO2030 at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Sarah’s previous roles include: 2019 to 2021 Deputy Head of Mission in Yangon 2016 to 2019 Political Counsellor, British Embassy Yango…
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Sarah Sackman KC MP was appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice on 2 December 2024. She was Solicitor General from the 9 July 2024 to 2 December 2024. She was elected as the MP for Finchley and Golders Green i…
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Sarah Sanyahumbi has been head of DFID Malawi since August 2011. She has over 19 years of experience in DFID, 14 of which has been overseas. She has headed several DFID country programmes, with her last posting being head of…
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Sarah Steele is a Senior Legal Advisor for the North Sea Transition Authority, advising on Net Zero and Energy Transition matters at the intersection of law, strategy and policy development. She is working closely with gover…
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Sarah Taylor is the Director, Consular and Crisis at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). She was appointed in July 2024. Previously Sarah led the FCDO’s Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation. …
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Sarah Taylor served as the Chief People Officer at the Home Office, where she led the people function driving workforce transformation and engagement, from 2024 until January 2026. Sarah has worked at director level in the N…
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Sarah Teather served as Minister of State for Children and Families from May 2010 to September 2012. She was elected Liberal Democrat MP for Brent Central in May 2010. Sarah studied natural sciences at St John’s College, Cam…
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Sarah Tiffin was appointed UK Ambassador to the Association of South East Asian Nations in April 2023. Sarah previously served as Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Dublin, and before that as Deputy Head of Mis…
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Curriculum vitae Date Role April 2022 to April 2025 FCDO, Governor of Montserrat 2020 to 2022 FCDO, Director of Strategy, British Virgin Islands 2020 FCDO, Head of Cruise Repatriation 2017 to 2020 FCO, Director of Corporate …
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Sarah Veale was Head of the Equality and Employment Rights Department at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), where she worked since 1985. She was a member of the TUC team which negotiated the agreement with the CBI and the Gove…
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Sarah Vodden is the Director - Business Operations for Innovate UK. Sarah has worked at Innovate UK since 2011, joining in the role of Competitions Manager. Coinciding with the increase of competitions that Innovate UK was a…
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Sarah joined the Civil Service as a patent examiner at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in 2009. Since then she has held a variety of policy and operational roles at the IPO, before joining Companies House as Director …
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Sarah Williams-Gardener was appointed as a Non-executive Director of DVLA in February 2024. Education Sarah left school after completing ‘O’ Levels. She later went on to an IBM sponsored MBA at INSEAD. Career Sarah spent 17 …
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Sarah Wilson has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy N’Djamena since July 2021. Sarah is a career diplomat who has previously served in a number of diplomatic roles. These include work on Somalia policy & …
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Sarah-Ellen joined DVLA in June 2025. She has worked in a number of senior and executive human resources (HR) and organisational development roles across the finance and social housing sector and, more recently, for a devolv…
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Satjit was previously Interim Chief Executive of the Shadow Trade Remedies Authority, the body which was a key part of safeguarding British Industry, post-Brexit. He was previously CEO of 2 healthcare professionals’ regulato…
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Satvir Kaur was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office on 7 September 2025. She was elected as the MP for Southampton Test in July 2024. Satvir Kaur is currently on maternity leave. Josh Simons MP is acting …
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Saul Klein was appointed as a Non-Executive Director at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in April 2023. Saul is co-founder and Managing Partner of Phoenix Court, home to LocalGlobe, Latitude, Solar and B…
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Saurabh Bhandari was appointed Director, Property Delivery and Transformation, within the Office of Government Property (Cabinet Office), in May 2024. Saurabh leads strategic initiatives to modernise and optimise the Govern…
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Mr. Scott Furssedonn-Wood LVO was appointed Director Protocol and Vice-Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in July 2025. Prior to this role Scott was Interim Director …
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Scott Johnson is an experienced small and medium sized businesses practitioner in the construction sector. From his initial new start up business as a student, he has worked across the sector leading to his current role as c…
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Scott Mann was Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) from 28 October 2022 to 5 July 2024. He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2…
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Scott was Director General of the Crime Police and Fire Group (CPFG) from November 2017 to February 2020. He was previously acting Director General for Justice and Courts Policy in the Ministry of Justice and has over 20 yea…
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Scott Simpson was Deputy Head of Mission in the British Embassy in Costa Rica from 2008 to 2013. Previously he has served in Thailand, Peru and Greece. Scott has substantial consular and security experience. He joined the FC…
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Scott Waddington has spent the majority of his career in the hospitality sector, specifically in drinks marketing and pub retailing working with businesses including Bass, Carlsberg and Century Inns. He joined the privately …
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Scott Wightman was a diplomat for the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office until 2019. Most recently he was the British High Commissioner to Singapore, and before that the UK Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. He also work…
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Scott Wilson was appointed National Counter Terrorism Co-ordinator, Protect and Prepare, in April 2014. He’s worked with the Metropolitan Police since 2003, where his previous roles include: Commander, Metropolitan Police In…
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Sean Canavan, BA (Hons) MRTPI, MPA took up the post of Director of Strategy in April 2022 and retired in January 2026.
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Sean joined the IPO as a patent examiner in 1978. In addition to a series of leadership roles, he has had experience of domestic policy development and international negotiation. As a tribunal Hearing Officer, he has decided…
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Sean Donovan-Smith is Head of the Investment Management and Funds Group for the London office of international law firm K&L Gates LLP. Sean is a financial services lawyer with almost 20 years’ experience in the financial…
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Sean Golding was appointed as Interim Director of Finance, Planning and Performance in April 2024. He was formerly Head of Finance having joined CCS in early 2018. He has previously acted as Finance Director for several priv…
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Sean Harford became National Director, Education in September 2015 and retired in August 2021. Sean was appointed Her Majesty’s Inspector in 2003. Since joining Ofsted he has worked in school improvement, school inspection p…
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Sean Melbourne is the Deputy Head of Mission (DHM) at British Embassy Astana, Kazakhstan. He has been Head of Climate Change & Energy West Africa, based in Abuja, since August 2019. Before that he spent 6 years as Deputy…
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Sean Pearce is Chief Operating Officer at Ofqual. He has previously worked for: West Midlands Combined Authority, as Director of Finance and Corporate Services Worcestershire County Council, as Chief Financial Officer PwC, s…
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Sean Taggart is co-owner and Chief Executive of The Albatross Group of Companies. Since 1995, Sean and his team have grown Albatross from its origins as two relatively small and specialist domestic wholesale tour operators h…
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Seb is the Humanitarian and Development Director for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) leading UK’s international development engagement in South Sudan. Prior to South Sudan, Seb was Humanitarian Tea…
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Seema Kennedy was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Home Office from 26 July 2019 to 16 December 2019. She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care from April 2019 to July 20…
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Seema Malhotra MP was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) in the Department for Education on 8 October 2024 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and D…