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Department for Culture Media and Sport

our structure

DCMS is managed by our Permanent Secretary, two Directors General, and three non-executive Directors who make up the DCMS Board, together with three directors who have cross-cutting remits. The Board is supported by four governance teams including an executive committee, made up of our Directors.

 

DCMS Board    

Jonathan Stephens
Permanent Secretary

Jonathan Stephens, Permanent Secretary

  • Leads the Department in order to achieve the Secretary of State's objectives
  • Chairs the DCMS Board
  • Accounts to Parliament for Departmental expenditure

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Andrew Ramsay
Director General, Partnerships and Programmes

andrew ramsay

Directly responsible for Departmental sector and programme teams including:

  • Culture sector
  • Media sector
  • Sports and Leisure sector
  • Programmes teams

Directors:

Mick Elliott
Director, Culture

Jon Zeff
Director, Media

Paul Bolt
Director, Sports and Leisure

Graham Turnock
Director, Programmes

Anita Charlesworth
Chief Analyst

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Jeremy Beeton
Director General, Government Olympic Executive

Jeremy Beeton

Directly responsible for Government Olympic Executive, including:

  • Build and Finance
  • Legacy
  • Staging

Directors and Senior Managers:

David Goldstone
Director, Build and Finance

David Brooker
Director, Legacy

Nicola Roche
Director, Staging

Shaun Cove
Head of GOE Operations

Sarah Jones
Head of GOE Communications

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Other Executive Committee members directly reporting to the Permanent Secretary, include:   

Simon Judge
Director, Finance

Patrick Kilgarriff
Director, Legal Services

Jane Cooper
Director, External Affairs

Rita Patel
Principal Private Secretary

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Non-Executive Directors   

Alexis Cleveland

Alexis Cleveland 

  • Alexis Cleveland is Director General of Transformational Government at the Cabinet Office.
  • Alexis Cleveland will also sit on the department’s Audit Committee.
  • A statistician by training Alexis has spent her Civil Service career in policy, ICT, shared services and operational delivery. She left her role as Chief Executive of the Pension Service in 2007 to head transformational government in the Cabinet Office.  

Ann Green

Ann Green

  • Ann Green is Chair of the Royal Armouries in Leeds, which is a Non Departmental Public Body. 
  • Ann brings wide experience of the public, private and voluntary sectors. Following a career in finance and general management, she now sits on the boards of several small private companies and chairs both the Royal Armouries and Hadrian’s Wall Heritage Ltd.

Dr Tracy Long

Dr Tracy Long

  • Dr Tracy Long also chairs the DCMS Audit Committee.
  • Aso serves on the Boards of NESTA (since 2004) and Lowland PLC (since 2004). Dr Tracy Long will continue her current roles while serving on the DCMS board.
  • More information available online.


 

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