Defra Management Board
The role of the Management Board is to give corporate strategic leadership to the Department.
Helen Ghosh
Permanent Secretary
Chair of Management Board
Bill Stow
Director General
Strategy and Evidence Group
Katrina Williams
Director General
Food and Farming Group
Mike
Anderson
Director General
Climate Change Group
Gill
Aitken
Solicitor and Director General
Legal Services
Peter
Unwin
Director General
Natural Environment Group
Ian Watt
Director General
Finance and Commercial
Professor Robert Watson
Chief Scientific Adviser
Non-executive members
Alexis Cleveland had a short academic career before joining the Department of Health and Social Security. She has worked in Departments across Whitehall and last year took up the post of Director General for Transformational Government and Head of Cabinet Office Management at the Cabinet Office.
Poul Christensen has served as a Chair of many agricultural organisations. He is Chair of the Defra Sustainable Livestock Production Link programme, and a Board Member of the DTI South East England Regional Development Agency. He was Chair of the Rural Development Service, before taking up the appointment of Deputy Chair for Natural England.
Bill
Griffiths previously had a career in finance and general management
in Unilever and later ICI and INEOS, he now has a portfolio career
which includes being a Non-Executive Director of the Department for
International Development, and Chair of its Audit and Finance Committee.
Non-executive Director.
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