Commissioners

Lord Bichard KCB is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and until 2021 was chair of the National Audit Office. He was formerly Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education and the first Director of the Institute for Government.

Deborah Cadman OBE is Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council, and previously of the West Midlands Combined Authority.

Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice is a former Head of the Number 10 Policy Unit.

Sir Suma Chakrabarti KCB was until recently the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was formerly Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice and the Department for International Development.

Sir Ian Cheshire was the Chairman of Barclays UK plc until 2021. He was formerly the Government Lead Non-Executive Director 2019-2020.

Phaedra Chrousos is the Chief Strategy Officer for Libra Group and a former commissioner for the US Technology and Transformation Service.

General Sir Chris Deverell KCB MBE is the former Commander of UK Joint Forces Command.

Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia DBE FRSE is a businesswoman and the founder and Executive Chair of the start-up Snoop.

Martin Gilbert is the Chairman of Revolut and the co-founder and former CEO of Aberdeen Asset Management.

Verity Harding is a Visiting Fellow at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge University, where she is on secondment from her role as Global Head of Policy and Partnerships at DeepMind.

Lord Herbert of South Downs CBE PC (Chair) is a former Conservative minister.

Rt Hon Dame Margaret Hodge DBE MP is a Labour Member of Parliament, a former minister, and the former Chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee.

Husayn Kassai is the co-founder and CEO of Onfido.

Daniel Korski CBE is the co-founder and CEO of PUBLIC and a former Deputy Head of the Number 10 Policy Unit.

Sir Paul Marshall is Chair and Chief Investment Officer of Marshall Wace LLP and a former Lead Non-Executive Director at the Department for Education.

Lord Nash is a businessman and Government Lead Non-Executive Director. He is a former minister.

Sir Mark Rowley QPM is a former Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston PC is Lead Non-Executive Director at the Cabinet Office and a former Labour MP and minister.

Jacky Wright is the Chief Digital Officer for Microsoft US.

Baroness Finn is a former government adviser on civil service reform. She stood down as a Commissioner on taking up her post as Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff in March 2021.