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Ruth joined HS2 in July 2021. She is a member of both the Executive Team, reporting directly to Chief Executive Mark Thurston, and the HS2 Board. Ruth will head up the new Commercial Directorate, where she will have responsibility for...
Dr Ruth Boumphrey is Director of Research at Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a global charity protecting life and property and supporting education, engineering-related research and public engagement. She is responsible for a large portfolio of grants, direct charitable activities and accelerated...
Ruth Hannant became Director General at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) – on a job share basis with Polly Payne – in March 2021. Their current role at the department is the Directors General for Society, Media...
Dr. Ruth Wiseman has been Deputy Head of the Embassy in Sarajevo since August 2018. She has come to Sarajevo from Canberra, Australia, where she headed up the Foreign and Security Policy Team at the British High Commission. Her last...
Ruth starts as the Representative at the British Office Taipei in February 2025. She was previously the Deputy Head of Mission to Myanmar 2021-2022, her second posting in Myanmar. Ruth’s diplomatic career spanned over 20 years. Previous postings have included...
Ruth Dunphy joined HS2 in October 2025 as Chief Transformation Officer at a pivotal moment in the delivery of the UK’s largest Rail Infrastructure programme. As part of the Executive Committee, Ruth is leading HS2’s Transformation and Organisational Reset, aligned...
Before joining HMRC, Ruth was Work Services Director and Deputy Chief Operating Officer at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). She was previously Chief Operating Officer in Jobcentre Plus. She has spent two spells in the private sector on...
Ruth took up her role as Deputy Permanent Representative Global Health, UK Representative to the Global Health Boards in August 2024. Ruth was most recently Development Director, FCDO Sudan (2022 to 2024). Ruth is a medical doctor by training with...
Ruth joined HMRC as Director of Indirect Tax in March 2016, and has led on Customs and Indirect Tax since early 2017. Since joining the Civil Service in the 1990s, she has led a range of policy work in different...
Ruth has extensive local government experience, having been first elected as a councillor at the London Borough of Sutton in 2002. She was Leader of the Council from 2012 until 2024. During that time, she was one of the Vice...
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