Interviews — Civil Service World

Frontline: JCP personal adviser 4 June, 2013

This week’s interviewee works for Jobcentre Plus, handling benefit claims and helping people to find work “I have been...
Interview: Mark Grimshaw, RPA 3 June, 2013

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) spent years engulfed in painful criticism. Mark Grimshaw, who came in as chief executive...
Profiles: Departmental non-executive directors 29 May, 2013

Non-executive directors are playing an increasingly important role in the management of Whitehall departments. In this complete...
Interview: Liam Maxwell 29 May, 2013

As government’s chief technology officer, Liam Maxwell is responsible for shaking up Whitehall’s IT operations in the...
Interview: Catherine Brown 9 May, 2013

The new chief executive of the Food Standards Agency, Catherine Brown, tells Joshua Chambers about the pressure her organisation...
Our man in Brazil: Alex Ellis 2 May, 2013

Alex Ellis has just left his post as the FCO’s director of strategy to become ambassador to Brazil. On his last day in...
Interview: Stephen Lovegrove 1 May, 2013

New DECC chief Stephen Lovegrove has, to his evident relief, missed all the big battles over the direction of our energy...
Interview: Roly Keating 29 April, 2013

The British Library’s vast collection is about to get much bigger. Suzannah Brecknell meets its new chief executive, Roly...
Interview: Chris Wormald 18 April, 2013

Chris Wormald, the education department’s permanent secretary, is leading organisational changes that go well beyond the...
Interview: Ursula Brennan 4 April, 2013

The Ministry of Justice is at the forefront of the coalition’s moves towards both outsourcing of service provision, and...