Department for International Trade

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Ministers

As of February 2018:

Antonia Romeo Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Trade
Toby Orr; director of communications; formerly a lobbyist with Portland PR
Crawford Falconer, Second Permanent Secretary and Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser from June 2017; formerly worked with the Legatum Institute
John Alty, Director General, Trade Policy
Louis Taylor, Chief Executive, UK Export Finance

Sir Martin Donnelly, permanent secretary at the DIT. Left April 2017, has since taken up an appointment as Senior Adviser at Teneo, a paid and part-time role. According to ACOBA, 'He will be supporting the organisation in providing consulting services, including risk management, to firms (with an international focus) at Chief Executive level'.

Simon Walker, Lead non-executive board member; Governor at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy; advisor at Greenbrook Communications, a Mayfair-based PR company set up by ex-Tulchan Communications consultant Andrew Honnor; ex-Director General of the Institute of Directors; prior to that he was CEO of British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
Dr Pippa Malmgren Non-executive board member; described as an American policy analyst, she was a special assistant to George W Bush, and a former member of the U.S. President's Working Group on Financial Markets. She is the founder of the DRPM Group.
Julie Currie, Non-executive board member; she is also a director of Social Investment Business, Social and Sustainable Capital, a fund manager and Fortem, a UK property maintenance company
Noel Harwerth, director at Standard Life, the London Metal Exchange, CHAPS Co and Sirius Minerals. Former chair of GE Capital Bank Europe.