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Permanent Secretary
Brian Bender
Permanent Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry
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Sir Brian Bender was born in 1949 and educated at Greenford Grammar School and Imperial College, London, where he took a BSc and PhD in Physics. He is married and has a daughter and a son.
He joined the DTI in 1973 and has been seconded twice to the Office of the UK Permanent Representative to the EC: from 1977-82 as First Secretary (trade policy) and from 1985-89 as Counsellor (industry and energy).
From 1990-93 he was deputy head of the European Secretariat at the Cabinet Office, and from 1993-94 he was head of the Regional Development Division at the DTI. From 1994-98 he headed up the European Secretariat at the Cabinet Office. He was also a key member of the Prime Minister's team for a number of EU Summits.
From Dec 1998 he was head of Public Service Delivery in the Cabinet Office, leading work on the Modernising Government White Paper and became Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office in April 1999.
He was appointed Permanent Secretary at MAFF in June 2000, and became Permanent Secretary at Defra when the department was created in June 2001. He has also played a role in the Professional Skills for Government agenda as the head of profession for policy delivery.
Sir Brian Bender became Permanent Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry on 3 October 2005.
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