Dame Sue Owen DCB
Board Member
Board Appointment: 31 October 2019
Member of the Audit Committee, Member of the Nomination Committee, Member of the Management Engagement Committee, Independent of the Manager.
Dame Sue Owen is an economist with over 30 years’ experience in government, including 14 years at the Treasury. She led the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2013 to 2019, having also worked in the British Embassy in Washington DC, No. 10, the Department of International Development and as Strategy Director General in the Department for Work and Pensions overseeing a £200bn budget. Dame Sue has considerable experience of governance, having advised ministers on board and chair appointments of 45 arm’s-length bodies. She chaired the Civil Service Charity and was Civil Service Diversity Champion.
Currently, Dame Sue chairs the UK Debt Management Office Advisory Board, and is Non-Executive Director at Serco plc, Pool Re and DAF NV Supervisory Board. She is an ad hoc adviser at Flint Global; in pro-bono roles she chairs the Royal Ballet Governors, is a trustee of Opera Holland Park and Non-Executive Director at Methera Global start-up.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
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                                            equity
                                        
                                                                                                                                            
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