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Tony Porter was appointed Surveillance Camera Commissioner in March 2014 and served until December 2020. He has a combination of business and law enforcement expertise. He is an intelligence specialist (most recently within the financial sector) and retired senior police...
Sir Philip Robert Barton KCMG OBE is the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office ( FCDO ). Prior to his appointment to lead the FCDO , Philip was British High Commissioner to India from June to August...
Tony was appointed to PHE in 2012. Career highlights: Director of Human Resources at the Health Protection Agency since April 2008 extensive range of senior human resources roles at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, the Royal Free and Hammersmith...
Tony is a chartered town planner who joined the Planning Inspectorate in 1999 following a planning career in local government. He has worked in England and Wales on appeal and development plan casework.
Tony Foot is Director General for Strategy Group at the Department for Education, taking on the role in March 2023. His previous roles include: Director of Strategic Finance at the Department for Education Director of Schools Funding and Analysis at...
Nicholas Hopton was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2017 to 2018. Prior to this he was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Qatar from 2013 to 2015. Mr Hopton joined the FCO in 1989 and has also...
John Whiting was the Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification ( OTS ), a part-time role he held since the OTS was established. Until 2013 he was the Tax Policy Director of the Chartered Institute of Taxation; previously,...
Professor John Aston became the Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser in September 2017. Professor Aston specialises in applied statistics. He was, until recently, a trustee of the Alan Turing Institute, and has previously spent much of his career working in...
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...
Mr Tom Hartley has been the UK’s High Commissioner to The Bahamas since August 2022. Before this appointment he was the Deputy High Commissioner in Ghana. After studying economics at the University of Cambridge, Tom moved to London where he...
Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment of Judge Tucker on 28 June 2023.
Jon Harding was the Chief Operating Officer of UKTI and previously worked at Virgin Atlantic as General Manager of International and Distribution. He is a qualified solicitor and, before joining the Virgin legal team, practised law in the City, dealing...
Minister John Lamont will represent the UK Government - promoting investment and trade and highlighting heritage and culture
David has been Head of the Governor’s Office (HOGO) and UK Policy Adviser to the Governor since November 6 2021. Prior to this, he was Deputy Head of Delegation for Politico-Military Affairs in Vienna. He began his Civil Service career...
Data recorded on the OSCAR II reporting system.
The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) is an independent scientific committee that provides advice to the Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health and other government bodies on matters concerning the toxicity...
Jonathan Dart joined the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1988. He has been posted to Germany, South Africa, and South Korea, and has worked on science and technology, defence, information technology, political and trade and investment projects in a number...
Recent honours lists, reports on how honours operate and changes to the system, leaflets and details of how to make a nomination.
Tricia Henton joined the Board as a non-executive member in October 2010. She is a past president of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Her current roles include: Trustee,...
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