Appendix 1: Curriculum vitae
Present role: Permanent Secretary at Home Office
2006-present
I am the Permanent Secretary at the Home Office,
a post I have held since January 2006. I lead a Department of
33,00 staff with a budget of over £10billion, responsible
for policing and crime, immigration and asylum and counter terrorism.
During the last five years I have worked successfully with five
Home Secretaries to turn around the performance and reputation
of the Home Office.
I am Whitehall's most senior and longest serving
Permanent Secretary. I have sat on Gus O'Donnell's steering board
for the Civil Service since 2005, helping to develop and guide
the strategy for the Civil Service. Within the wider Permanent
Secretary group i have made a particular specialism of senior
leadership development and HR. I have sat on the Cabinet Secretary's
Senior Leadership Committee (and its predecessor) since 2002 and
have been closely involved in all major developments in senior
leadership in the Civil Service over that time.
I have just announced my intention to retire from
the Civil Service at the end of 2010 when I complete 5 years at
the Home Office.
Previous career
2001-2005 Permanent Secretary at the Department
for Education and Skills
Responsible for English education policy, children's
social services, higher education, youth and adult skills. Budget:
£45billion. Staff 5,000 (approx).
1998-2001 Director General for Schools, Department
for Education and Employment
Responsible for raising standards in English schools.
Member of the Department's Board.
1997-1998 Director General for Strategy and International,
Department for Education and Employment
Responsible (in the first year of the new Labour
Government) for the overall strategy of the Department and its
(new) approach to the EU in the field of social affairs and employment.
1992-1997 Director for Personnel (HR) and Corporate
Services, Department of Employment (1992-95) and Department for
Education and Employment (1995-97)
Responsible for HR and training and development policies
and (later) for estates, IT, procurement etc; and for overseeing
the merger of education and employment.
1989-1992 Director for Strategy and Employment
Policy, Department of Employment
Responsible for policy on labour market and unemployment.
1987-1989 Regional Director for Employment Service,
London and South East
Responsible for 500 Jobseekers and Unemployment Benefit
Offices and 10,000 staff.
1973-1987 Range of jobs in the fields of employment,
training and industrial relations policy, including Principal
Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Employment (Tom
King), Area Manager for North East London, Manpower Services Commission
and leader of the Bill teams for the 1980 and 1982 trade union
leglislation.
Qualifications
B.A. Hons in Modern History at Corpus Christi College,
Oxford.
Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel
and Development.
Current remuneration:
£189,000 per annum.
| 
