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Lord John Alderdice was appointed as a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life on 1 September 2010 and was reappointed on 1 September 2013. His term will end on 31 August 2016. He has been a Liberal...
John Hannett became a Low Pay Commissioner on 1 May 2007 and was reappointed for 4 years on 1 January 2011. He is General Secretary of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and a member of ACAS. John...
John was one of 9 Trade Commissioners appointed by the British government to promote the UK in important global markets. As the head of the Department for Business and Trade in China, John was in charge of all bilateral trade...
John Glen was appointed Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office on 13 November 2023. He was previously Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 25 October 2022 and 13 November 2023. He was also Minister of State (Economic Secretary)...
John Longworth is a businessman and entrepreneur. He was originally a scientist and spent most of his career in consumer goods and food corporates doing business in the UK and around the globe. He co-founded a science-tech business of which...
John Duncan was appointed Governor of the British Virgin Islands in June 2013 and took up his post in August 2014. Previously, he was sworn in as Acting Governor of the Falkland Islands on February 27 for a period of...
Professor John Beath studied at the Universities of St. Andrews (Queen’s College Dundee), London and Pennsylvania (where he was a UK Thouron Scholar) and held academic posts at Bristol, Cambridge and St. Andrews. He became Professor Emeritus at St. Andrews...
John was appointed as a non-executive director (NED) for the Home Office in June 2020. John has extensive international board and leadership experience. He has been Chief Executive of media companies in 4 countries ranging from less than $20 million...
Sir John O’Reilly was appointed Director General of Knowledge and Innovation in February 2013. John came from Cranfield University where he was Vice Chancellor from December 2006. Prior to that John was Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
John Wotton (appointed in 2013) practised as a Solicitor with Allen & Overy LLP throughout his career, retiring on 31 December 2012. His practice has embraced many areas of corporate and commercial law, with a principal focus on EU and...
John Kirkland was a non-executive member of the Department for Transport Board from 10 June 2013 to 17 June 2016. John is Chairman of the Bowmer and Kirkland Group of Companies, one of the largest privately owned construction, engineering and...
Professor John Wood was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner from June 2020 to May 2023. John is a materials scientist by background and has honorary chairs at a number of UK universities. He is an adviser to governments on international research...
John Matheson was Director of Finance for the NHS in Scotland from 2008 until his retiral in 2016 with specific responsibility for ehealth and analytics. Prior to that he was the Director of Finance at NHS Lothian. He studied at...
Sir John joined the FCO in 1980 and after studying Arabic at SOAS and elsewhere has served mainly in the Middle East and South East Asia. His first posting was to Abu Dhabi. He has been Her Majesty’s Ambassador to...
John Harley (appointed in 2013) is a former Senior Partner at Ernst & Young LLP (EY) and up to June 2000, PricewaterhouseCoopers. He retired in February 2011 from EY having been Global Head of Private Equity and previously Global Head...
Professor John Perkins was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in 2012. John is currently an Honorary Professor at Manchester University, a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and a member of the EPSRC...
Dr John Murton is the UK government’s COP26 Envoy. Find out more about COP26 , the 2021 UN Climate Conference. John was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of the...
John Dennis is Representative at the British Office in Taipei. He was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Angola from February 2014 until February 2018. John joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (formerly Foreign & Commonwealth Office, FCO) in 1981 and...
John Rennilson is a Chartered Town Planner and a Chartered Surveyor with over 37 years’ experience in local government. He served as County Planning Officer of North Yorkshire County Council (1984-1996) and as Director of Planning & Development for Highland...
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