Martin Donnelly
Martin Donnelly CMG is a senior UK civil servant and the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
He was appointed in October 2010, following the departure of Simon Fraser CMG, on 26 August 2010. [1]
Background
Donnelly was previously Member of the FCO Board of Management, the 'Director General for Globalisation' [2] working with Andrew Cahn. Organisation consultants, Stanton Marris, were drafted in to help with reconfiguring the FCO [3]. [4].
- Donnelly is part of the Recruitment sub-group and also has a connection to the Chevening Scholarship programme [5] which "targets the future generation of leaders, decision-makers and opinion-formers", as part of the FCO/British Council public diplomacy initiative. [6] [7]
- Previously, Donnelly held positions as the Policy Director of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate of the Home Office, responsible for the beleagered asylum and immigration policy, and Deputy Head of the Cabinet Office European Secretariat, coordinating the Government's European policies and reporting to the Prime Minister from 1998 to 2003. In 1995 Donnelly worked on monetary issues, government debt and economic and monetary union in Europe. In 1989 Donnelly went to Brussels as a member of the personal staff of Leon Brittan, European Commission Vice President, and was responsible for work to set up the European internal market in financial services [8]
Meetings with outside interests
In July 2013 the press reported that in his role as business department permanent secretary that in 2012 Martin Donnelly had 36 meetings with outside organisations and one with a lobbyist. [9]
Affiliations
References
- ↑ New Permanent Secretary for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, BIS/COI 11 October 2010
- ↑ The German British Forum 1994-2006 Speakers: Martin Donnelly
- ↑ Stanton Marris 2007 Case Studies
- ↑ The German British Forum 1994-2006 Speakers: Martin Donnelly
- ↑ British Council 2002; 20 July 2004 Chevening Reception: Latham Lawn Trinity Hall Accessed 2 Sep 2007
- ↑ Third Report from the Foreign Affairs Committee, Session 2005-6, PUlbic Diplomacy, Response of the Secretary of State for foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- ↑ Civil Service, 7 May 2007 DCN Sub-groups
- ↑ University of Toronto 2007 2005 G8 Pre-Summit Conference: Speaker Biographies
- ↑ Patrick Wintour, Call to broaden register of lobbyists as new figures show extent of meetings, The Guardian, Thursday 11 July 2013 19.25 BST, acc 12 July 2013
