Stephen Hickey
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Stephen Hickey is a former director general of the Department for Transport.
Career
In 1974 he joined the Department of Health and Social Security as a fast track 'fast stream' trainee, working there between 1974 and 1988.
In 1994 he was the chief executive of the Civil Service College for 4 years.
In 1999 he started working in the Department for Work and Pensions, holding the position of director general and principal finance officer, before transferring to the Department for Transport as director general between 2003 and 2008. Between May 2003 and October 2003 he held the role of acting chief executive at the Highways Agency.[1]
Affiliations
- Independent member, membership and standards committee, Citizens Advice, 2007-March 2013.[1]
- Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, September 2008-[1]
- Trustee, Disabled Living Foundation, 2009-[1]
- Vice-chair, Wandsworth NHS Primary Care Trust, 2009-[1]
- Chair, Community Transport Commission, November 2010-[1]
- Member, Independent Transport Commission, January 2011-[1]
- Chair, St George's Hospital Charity, May 2012-[1]
- Vice Chair, Wandsworth Clinical Commissioning Group, July 2012-[1]
- Consultant, Detica Ltd, February 2009. Approved by ACOBA "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 Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of Detica or its clients".[2]
Education
- BA, MA, D.Phil, Modern History, University of Oxford, 1967 – 1974[1]
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