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 30 years’ experience in government, including 14 years at the Treasury. She led the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 2013–2019, having also worked in the British Embassy in Washington DC, No.10 and the Department for 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.
Dame Sue chairs the UK Debt Management Office Advisory Board, is Non-Executive Director at Serco Plc and DAF NV Supervisory Board. She sits on the RAC Club Board and is an ad hoc adviser at Flint Global; in a pro-bono role she chairs the Royal Ballet Governors.
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