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MICHAEL WALDEN
By email
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FOI Reference:
FOI324337
5/4/2017
Dear MICHAEL WALDEN
I refer to your request where you asked:
Please provide the job titles of the roles which comprise the GDS leadership
team as noted by GDS Director General Kevin Cunnington in his Tweet from 8
March 2017: https://twitter.com/kevincunnington/status/839527981940867072.
For each of these roles, please confirm whether:
1) the role is currently fil ed or is vacant
2) the role is fil ed by an interim resource (including contractors brought in via the
CL1 agreement or DOS/G-Cloud procurement) or civil servant (including
permanent civil servants, short-fixed-term appointment, or fixed-term
appointment).
3) whether the role is currently fil ed by a woman or a man.
Please also provide the job titles of the roles which comprised the GDS
leadership team in March 2016. For each of these roles, please confirm whether
the role was fil ed by a woman or a man on 31 March 2016.
I am writing to advise you that fol owing a search of our paper and electronic records, I
have established that the information you requested is
held by the Cabinet Office.
The information you have asked for is as fol ows. Please note that al references to
male/female or man/woman in this response refer to the gender to which team
members self-identify.
GDS leadership team as of 8 March 2017
i. Fil ed positions
There are 9 positions in the GDS management team, 4 of which are currently fil ed by
women.
● Kevin Cunnington, Director General - Male
● Nic Harrison, Director of Service Design and Assurance - Male
● Emily Ackroyd, Director of Strategy and Engagement (jobshare) - Female
● Hazel Hobbs, Director of Strategy and Engagement (jobshare) - Female
● Chris Ferguson, Director of National, International and Research - Male
● Arif Harbott, Director of Digital, Data, and Technology Profession (Interim) - Male
● David Lewis, director for delivery and support (Interim) - Male
● Alex Segrove, Deputy Director, Head of Business Operations - Female
● Amy Longdon, Head of Private Office - Female
i . Vacant positions
● Director of Digital, Data and Technology Profession - A candidate has been
appointed for this permanent role, announcement expected in due course
● Director of Delivery and Exchange - to be recruited and fil ed in due course.
GDS leadership team as of 31 March 2016
● Stephen Foreshew-Cain, Executive Director - Male
● Liam Maxwel , Director, Chief Technology Officer - Male
● Iain Patterson, Director of Common Technology Services - Male
● Paul Maltby, Director for Data - Male
● Chris Ferguson, Director for Digital - Male
● Felicity Singleton, Deputy Director, Head of Strategy - Female
● Wendy Coel o, Deputy Director, Head of Communication and Engagement team
- Female
● Alex Holmes, Deputy Director, Chief Operating Officer - Male
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact the FOI team. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
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internal review if it is received more than two months after the date that the reply was
issued.
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Yours sincerely
FOI Team
Cabinet Office
