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Sir Gus O'Donnell took over as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service on 1 August 2005.
Prior to that, he was Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury (July 2002 – July 2005). He worked as Managing Director, Macroeconomic Policy and International Finance from 1999 to 2002 and as Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Prospects from 1998 to 1999. He also served as the UK's Executive Director to the IMF and World Bank from 1997-98 and as Head of the Government Economics Service, the UK's largest employer of professional economists, from 1998 to 2003.
Gus O'Donnell studied economics at the University of Warwick and Nuffield College Oxford. He joined the Treasury as an economist in 1979, having spent four years as an economics lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Subsequent posts in Government included Press Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1989-90) and Press Secretary to the Prime Minister (1990-94).
His interests include football, cricket, golf and tennis. He is married with one daughter.