Executive Committee Members

Before HMRC, Jon was Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, jointly leading the £36bn organisation with the Chief of the Defence Staff. Jon has had a lengthy finance career including as Director General, Finance at the MoD, Director General, Corporate Services at the Department for Education and Finance Director of Ofsted. Before joining the Civil Service in 2004 Jon held a number of corporate services and finance roles in the public and corporate sectors.
 

Elizabeth Barrett spent 30 years at Slaughter and May, including 27 years as a partner and was the firm’s Head of its Dispute Resolution Group between 2004 and 2008. Mrs Barrett advised HM Treasury on a number of high-profile proceedings throughout the financial crisis and after, including the interventions in Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley, as well as the administration of the Icelandic banks.

He holds a degree in Accountancy and Financial Analysis from Warwick University, qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in 1985 and was a partner from 1995 until he left the firm in 1999. In addition to being responsible for the audits of many major public interest entities he managed one of KPMG’s significant consulting businesses and was on their UK Consulting management committee.

Following KPMG, and prior to joining the Financial Reporting Council in 2004, Paul was a main board director of a UK publicly quoted company specialising in helping multi-national companies improve their operational efficiency and the effectiveness of their finance functions.

Previously she was an Associate at Beachcroft Wansbroughs (now DAC Beachcrofts) in the Public Law Department where she acted for a number of regulators across different sectors prosecuting in disciplinary cases, acting as legal assessor and giving advice on a wide range of regulatory issues. Prior to this, both at Beachcroft Wansbroughs and at Le Brasseurs, Anne acted in relation to disciplinary cases and civil and criminal actions as well as providing general advice in relation to the provision of healthcare services.

Anne studied law at Liverpool University and following completion of Law Society Finals at the College of Law, Guildford, trained and qualified at Le Brasseurs.

Tracy was a Senior Civil Servant and one of the first to be selected for the Cabinet Office’s new High Potential Development Secondment Programme (HPSP), through which she was loaned out to the Co-operative Group to work on the Co-operative Bank recapitalisation project, stabilising the Bank without recourse to taxpayer funding.  After the Bank crisis was over, she stayed on to establish the new role of Director of Policy for the wider Co-operative Group, which included working with Lord Myners on a major review of the Group’s corporate governance and then implementing a major Board restructure with the new Group Secretary. 
 
Tracy joined the Civil Service  straight from university, into the then DTI, and has held Director roles in the Departments for Communities and Local Government (CLG), Business Innovation and Skills  (BIS) and Energy and Climate Change (DECC).   She has also served on the Boards of several Non-Departmental Public Bodies, such as the Energy Saving Trust and the Equal Opportunities Commission.
 
Outside of Whitehall, Tracy has spent time in Brussels as a UK representative on equality and diversity policy and worked for P&G in Paris in the late 1990s whilst on a Career Break from the Civil Service.  She is a member of the Government’s Major Project Leadership Academy and completed the Oxford Business School Masters Programme in 2013.