Advisory Committee on Business Appointments

Appointments taken up by former Crown Servants since 1 April 2009 (or, if earlier, where notification received after 1 April 2009)

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If an appointment of a former Crown servant is not listed here it does not necessarily mean that he or she has not complied with the rules. We release information only when we are informed that the appointment or employment has been taken up (or announced).

In the cases of the recommendations marked †, a member of the Committee dissented from the advice given. If marked ‡, two members of the Committee dissented from the advice given.

Appointments taken up before 1 April 2009 are detailed in the relevant annual report which is accessible via the Publications section of this website.

This list is updated on a monthly basis.

Appointments taken up by former Crown Servants since 1 April 2009 (or, if earlier, where notification received after 1 April 2009)
Name, former department and date of leaving service	Appointment	Advice and date tendered	Date taken up
Admiral Sir Jonathon Band GCB Ministry of Defence First Sea Lord & Chief of the Naval Staff November 2009	Non-executive Director Carnival Corporation & plc	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer, the normal automatic three-month waiting period being waived December 2009	Announced as being nominated for the role in February 2010 to be taken up in April 2010
	Non-executive Director/strategic adviser Lockheed Martin	Approved subject to a waiting period of 6 months from his last day of service and the condition that, for 12 months from the same date, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer January 2010	May 2010
	Chairman of Defence Advisory Board VT Group	Approved subject to a waiting period of 6 months from his last day of service and the condition that, for 12 months from the same date, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer January 2010	May 2010
Sir Brian Bender KCB Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform Permanent Secretary April 2009	Chair of European Communication and Consultation Group Honda Motor Co. Ltd	Approved subject to the automatic three-month waiting period from his last day of service and the condition that, for 12 months from the same date, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer May 2009	August 2009 (Chaired first meeting in November 2009)
	Associate Criticaleye	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer or its members September 2009	October 2009
	Adviser British Standards Institute (BSI)	Unconditional approval September 2009	October 2009
	Member of the Offshore Advisory Committee Mainstream Renewable Power (UK) Ltd	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer February 2010	April 2010
	Chairman of the Board of the London Metal Exchange	Unconditional approval April 2010	April 2010
	Senior Adviser to Mandate Communications	Unconditional approval July 2010	July 2010
The Rt Hon Paul Boateng Foreign & Commonwealth Office British High Commissioner Pretoria July 2009 (last day in post May 2009) [Lord Dholakia recused himself from the Committee's consideration of this appointment as he is a friend of Mr Boateng]	Non-executive Director Aegis Defence Services Ltd	Approved subject to the conditions that, for six months from his last day in post, he should not return to South Africa for business purposes, give advice on it, or have dealings with companies there, and, for 12 months from that same date, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer or the Private Military and Security sector as a whole October 2009	November 2009
Desmond Bowen CMG Ministry of Defence Policy Director October 2008	Independent Consultant Advising a range of public and private sector clients on defence strategy, evolving threats and related security policy matters	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of any of his clients July 2009	First commission accepted in March 2010
Sir Geoffrey Bowman KCB QC HM Revenue & Customs Tax Law Rewrite Project (part-time re-engagement) (formerly First Parliamentary Counsel, Cabinet Office) September 2008 (last day in post as First Parliamentary Counsel July 2006)	Senior Research Fellow Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London	Unconditional approval December 2009	December 2009
	Member of Advisory Council Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London	Unconditional approval December 2009	December 2009
Sir Tony Brenton KCMG Foreign & Commonwealth Office HM Ambassador Moscow March 2009 (last day in post September 2008)	Adviser Lloyds of London	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his employer April 2009	April 2009
Dr Mark Britnell Department of Health Director General, Commissioning and System Management September 2009 (last day in post June 2009)	Partner & Head of Healthcare, UK & Europe KPMG LLP	Approved subject to a waiting period of three months from his last day of service and the condition that, for 12 months from the same date, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of KPMG June 2009	October 2009
Dr Peter Collecott CMG Foreign & Commonwealth Office HM Ambassador Brasilia May 2009 (last day in post November 2008)	Adviser BG Group plc	Approved subject to a waiting period of six months from his last day in post and the condition that, for 12 months from the same date, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer February 2009	June 2009
	Adviser Smiths Group plc	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day in post, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer July 2009	August 2009
Hilary Douglas CB Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Director General, Operations and Change December 2009	Executive Coach Praesta Partners LLP	Approved subject to a waiting period of 3 months from her last day of service and to the condition that, for 12 months from the same date, she should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers on behalf of her new employer February 2010	April 2010
Lt Gen Sir James Dutton CBE Deputy Commander International Security and Assistance Force May 2010 (last day in post November 2009)	Infrastructure and Operations Manager Bechtel Civil	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service,he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer April 2010	May 2010
Sir Graham Fry KCMG Foreign & Commonwealth Office HM Ambassador Tokyo September 2008 (last day in post July 2008)	Adviser Sumitomo Corporation Europe Ltd †	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day in post, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer May 2009	June 2009
David Gould CB Ministry of Defence Chief Operating Officer, Defence Equipment & Support March 2008	Non-executive Director VEGA Consulting Services Ltd †	Approved subject to the conditions that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in direct negotiations with the MOD or in lobbying MOD Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of VEGA, any other Finmeccanica company, or any consortium they may join to bid for MOD business March 2009	May 2009
Richard Granger Department of Health Director General of NHS IT and CEO of NHS Connecting for Health January 2008	Geological consultant Various overseas clients	Unconditional approval July 2009	First commission accepted in July 2009
Sir John Grant KCMG Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK Permanent Representative to the EU September 2007	Executive Vice President, Policy & Corporate Affairs BG Group plc	Unconditional approval May 2009	September 2009
General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman GBE KCB Ministry of Defence Vice Chief of Defence Staff October 2009	Director, Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre Project	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer or related benefactors, the normal automatic 3-month waiting period being waived December 2009	January 2010
Michael Hanson HM Revenue & Customs Director General, Benefits and Credits December 2008	Advisory Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer June 2009	June 2009
John Kingman HM Treasury Chief Executive, UK Financial Investments Ltd (and formerly Second Permanent Secretary) December 2009	Managing Director NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd	Approved subject to the automatic three-month waiting period from his last day of service and the conditions that, for 12 months from the same date, he should not advise UKFI, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, Northern Rock or Bradford & Bingley, or be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, the Financial Services Authority or the Bank of England on behalf of his new employer or their clients November 2009	Announced in November 2009 to be taken up in March 2010
Richard Manning CB Department for International Development Director General (last post, secondment as Chair of Development Assistance Committee, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris) February 2008	Co-chair (with the UN Secretary General) of Fund's replenishment negotiations Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria	Unconditional approval September 2009	September 2009
Sir David Pepper KCMG Government Communications Headquarters Director October 2008 (last day in post July 2008)	Strategic Adviser Defence Strategy & Solutions LLP †	Approved subject to a waiting period of 12 months from his last day in post and the condition that, for two years the same date, he should not be personally involved in lobbying the UK Security & Intelligence Agencies on behalf of his new employer June 2009	July 2009
	Member of Advisory Board Thales UK	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer August 2009	September 2009
	Consultant SNC-Lavalin	Unconditional approval May 2010	June 2010
Sir Jonathan Phillips KCB Northern Ireland Office Permanent Secretary Summer 2010 (exact date to be confirmed)	Warden Keble College, Oxford	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer, the normal automatic three-month waiting period being waived January 2010	To be taken up in October 2010
Vicky Pryce CB Director General, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills & Joint Head, Government Economic Service Summer 2010 (exact date to be confirmed)	Senior Managing Director FTI Consulting	Approved subject to the condition that , for 12 months from her last day of service, she should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of her new employer	Announced in May 2010 to be taken up in Summer 2010 (exact date to be confirmed)
William Rickett CB Department of Energy and Climate Change Director General, Energy Group October 2009	Senior Adviser Cambridge Economic Policy Associates Ltd	Approved subject to the conditions that, for six months from his last day of service, he should not be engaged in any work in the UK energy sector and, for 12 months from the same date, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer November 2009	January 2010
	Non-executive Director New and Renewable Energy Centre Limited	Approved subject to a waiting period of 12 months from his last day of service November 2009	Announced in January 2010 to be taken up in October 2010
Campbell Robb Cabinet Office Director General of the Office of the Third Sector and Social Exclusion December 2009	Chief Executive Shelter	Approved subject to the conditions that, for six months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer, and, for the same period, he should not play any part in the preparation of bids for Government funding or Government contracts for advice or other services October 2009	January 2010
Archie Robertson OBE Highways Agency Chief Executive Officer June 2008	Non-executive Director Capita Symonds Ltd	Unconditional approval June 2009	June 2009
	Non-executive Director ASI Solutions Ltd	Unconditional approval September 2009	September 2009
Paul Stein Ministry of Defence Director General, Science & Technology December 2009 [Dame Juliet Wheldon recused herself from the Committee's consideration of this appointment as she has a shareholding in the employing company]	Chief Scientific Officer Rolls Royce plc	Approved subject to the conditions that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying MOD Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer, and, for the same period, he should not play any part in assisting his new employer bid for any new MOD contracts. As an additional safeguard the Committee asked for, and received, written confirmation from the company that they understood the conditions recommended by the Committee and would abide by them if imposed December 2009	January 2010
Ralph Tabberer Department for Children, Schools and Families Director General, Schools April 2009 (last day in post May 2008)	Chief Officer Schools GEMS Education	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer March 2009	April 2009
Sir Hugh Taylor, Department of Health, Permanent Secretary Retiring on 31 July 2010	Non-executive Chairman Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	Approved subject to a waiting period of 6 months from his last day of service and the condition that, for 2 years from the same date, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer	Announced in June 2010 to be taken up in February 2011
Ruth Thompson Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills Director General, Higher Education April 2009	Independent Consultant (HE best practice and policy foresight matters) Various universities and HE colleges	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from her last day of service, she should not be personally involved in lobbying BIS Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of her clients July 2009	First commission accepted in September 2009
Ian Watmore Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills Permanent Secretary May 2009	Chief Executive The Football Association	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer, the normal three-month waiting period being waived February 2009	June 2009
Catherine Wilcher HM Revenue & Customs Chief People Officer November 2009	Human Resources Prudential plc	Noted and saw no difficulty, provided that she did not become personally involved in lobbying HM Treasury Ministers or HMRC Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of her new employer or their clients December 2009	November 2009
John Williams Ministry of Defence Special Adviser to the Secretary of State June 2009	Independent Consultant Fujitsu Services Ltd	Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new client November 2009	November 2009
	Independent Consultant Equiniti Ltd		November 2009
	Independent Consultant Odgers Berndtson		November 2009

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Appointments taken up by former Crown Servants since 1 April 2009 (or, if earlier, where notification received after 1 April 2009)

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