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Paul Clive Deighton, Baron Deighton, KBE (born 18 January 1956) is a British politician who has served as Commercial Secretary to HM Treasury since January 2013.
Deighton previously served as Chief Executive of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), which was responsible for planning the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
He is a former investment banker, and was a former chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs Group. [1]
Nuclear negotiator
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Working alongside Stephen Lovegrove, the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Energy and Climate Change, Deighton is leading the ongoing negotiations with French nuclear firm EDF to reach a "strike price" agreement for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point, Somerset. [2]
Notes
- ↑ I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs, Sunday Times Online, 8 November 2009
- ↑ Kamal Ahmed, Emily Gosden, Olympics chief Lord Deighton to bring nuclear power stations to Britain, The Telegraph, 06 Apr 2013 9:30PM BST, acc 15 August 2013
