Willy Rickett
Biography
Willy Rickett is a career civil servant. From March 6, 2006, this former Principal at the Government's Atomic Energy Division will become Director General for the Department for Trade and Industry's Energy Group. [1].
The Energy Group 'deals with a wide range of energy related matters, from its production or generation to its eventual supply to the customer'. [2]
Rickett joined the civil service in 1975 and has held the following positions: [3]
- Principal, Atomic Energy Division, 1978
- Private Secretary to Prime Minister (Margaret Thatcher), 1981
- Seconded to Kleinwort Benson Ltd, 1983
- Assistant Secretary, Oil Division, Department of Energy, 1985
- Assistant Secretary, Electricity Privatisation, 1987 (age 32 was put in charge of electricity privatisation in 1987 and worked on this until the privatisation was complete in 1990) [4]
- Grade 4, Electricity Privatisation, Department of Energy, 1989
- Under Secretary, Energy Efficiency Office, 1990
- Finance Director, Department of Environment, 1993
- Director, Land Use Planning, DoE, 1997
- Head of the Economic & Domestic Secretariat, Cabinet Office, 1998 - working closely with No10 on issues like welfare reform, energy policy, public spending etc [5]
- Director General, DETR and then DfT, 2000
- Ernst & Young, 2004.
He is described as 'one of the chief architects of electricity privatisation in the late 80s'. [6]
External links
- {{note|press} Government News Network press release: 'New Director General for Energy at the DTI, February 20, 2006.
- ^ DTI Website: 'About the energy group', undated, accessed February 2006.
- ^ Department Of The Environment, Transport And The Regions press release: 'Head Of Transport Task Force Appointed', unavailable online, January 17, 2000.
Articles
- ^ Paul Foot, 'The notional health service', The Guardian, January 25, 2000.
