Women Permanent Secretaries
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Women Permanent Secretaries
by Jillian Edelstein
chromogenic print, 21 February 2017
19 5/8 in. x 28 in. (497 mm x 712 mm) image size
Commissioned, 2017
Photographs Collection
NPG x199774
Artistback to top
- Jillian Edelstein (1957-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 120 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
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- Dame Ann Elizabeth Bowtell (1938-), UK's First Civil Service Commissioner. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Ursula Brennan (1952-), Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Sally Davies (1949-), Chief Medical Officer. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Dame Melanie Henrietta Dawes (1966-), Economist and Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Karen Hope Dunnell (1946-), National Statistician; Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics and head of the Government Statistical Service. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Leslie Evans (1958-), Permanent Secretary of the Scottish Government. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Elizabeth Anne Finlay Gardiner (1966-), First Parliamentary Counsel and Permanent Secretary of the Government in Parliament Group. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Helen Frances Ghosh (1956-), Director General of the National Trust and Permanent Secretary of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Home Office. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Bronwyn Hill (1960-), Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Mavis McDonald (1944-), Academic and Permanent Secretary of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Elizabeth Lydia Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller (1948-), Director-General of the Security Service and Head of MI5. Sitter in 8 portraits. Identify
- Dame Jilian Norma ('Jil') Matheson, National Statistician. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Dame Shan Elizabeth Morgan (1955-), Diplomat and Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Government. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Una O'Brien, Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Susan Jane ('Sue') Owen (1955-), Economist and academic; Permanent Secretary of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Stella Rimington (1935-), Director-General of the Security Service and Head of MI5. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Antonia Romeo (1974-), Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Trade. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Alison Saunders (1961-), Barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Nemat Talaat ('Minouche') Shafik (1962-), Director of the London School of Economics and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Valerie Patricia Marie Strachan (1940-), Chair of HM Customs and Excise and member of the Judicial Appointments Commission. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Sue Street, Permanent Secretary of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Moira Wallace, First Permanent Secretary of the Department of Energy and Climate Change and Provost of Oriel College, Oxford. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dame Sharon Michele White (1967-), Civil servant; Chief executive of Ofcom. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Patsy Wilkinson, Second Permanent Secretary for the Home Office. Sitter associated with 1 portrait. Identify
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Twenty-four women permanent secretaries gathered at Buckingham Palace in February 2017 to celebrate senior female leadership in the Civil Service at a reception hosted by HM Queen Elizabeth II. A permanent secretary is the most senior civil servant in a government ministry, administering the day-to-day running of the department. The sitters pictured here celebrate the diversity of female leadership, past and present, featuring statisticians, scientists and government advisors on culture, gender, health, the environment, climate change, security and the economy.
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