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Management Board


The Management Board provides corporate and management leadership to BIS in delivering the policies and services decided by Ministers.

The main functions of the Board are to ensure that we deliver our objectives and Public Service Agreement targets, monitor departmental performance, manage resource, and assess and manage risk. The Management Board will not consider specific policy issues.

The Board meets monthly and comprises the Management Team and up to three Non-Executive Board Members.

Download the BIS Management Board and Directors organogram (PDF, 316KB) (PDF, 316 Kb)

Management team

The day-to-day management of the Department is led by our Permanent Secretary, Simon Fraser, supported by a Management Team of 10 Director Generals, who each lead a management group.

Management team expenses, April-December 2009 (DOC, 565KB)

Simon Fraser

Simon Fraser

Permanent Secretary

Bernadette Kelly

Bernadette Kelly

Director General, Fair Markets

Andrew Cahn

Andrew Cahn

Chief Executive, UK Trade & Investment

Stephen Lovegrove

Stephen Lovegrove

Chief Executive, Shareholder Executive

Stephen Marston

Stephen Marston

Director General, Universities and Skills

Howard Orme

Howard
Orme

Director General, Finance and Commercial

Vicky Pryce

Vicky Pryce

Director General, Economics and Joint Head, UK Government Economic Service

Philip Rutnam

Philip Rutnam

Director General, Business

Philip Rycroft

Philip Rycroft

Director General, Innovation and Enterprise and Chief Executive, Better Regulation Executive

Rachel Sandby-Thomas

Rachel Sandby-Thomas

The Solicitor and Director General Legal, People and Communications

Adrian Smith

Adrian Smith

Director General, Science and Research