Joan MacNaughton, Director-General, Energy, Department of Trade and Industry

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Wednesday, 02 August 2006

Joan MacNaughton joined the Home Office in 1972 with a degree in Physics from Warwick University. She has had a wide range of policy and managerial jobs in her Civil Service career; managing large scale organisational change in several different sectors. She spent five years in the Prison Service, including a spell as Director of Prison Service Industries and Farms, and has been Chief Executive of an NDPB (the Police Information Technology Organisation) responsible for developing and procuring large-scale information and communication systems and services for the police. She has been Principal Private Secretary to three Cabinet Ministers, including Lord Whitelaw (when Deputy Prime Minister). She has spent time in the private sector, redesigning one company's financial and sales support system and reviewing another's information technology strategy. From July 1999 - December 2001 she was Director-General, Policy in the Lord Chancellor's Department, responsible for civil, family and administrative justice; freedom of information, data protection and human rights and criminal justice policy. She also had oversight of three Agencies and several NDPB's. From January 2002 she has been Director-General, Energy in the Department of Trade and Industry. Her responsibility covers Oil & Gas, Nuclear Industries, Coal Policy, and the Engineering Inspectorate. One of the overall aims of the Group is to work with others to ensure competitive energy markets, while achieving safe, secure and sustainable energy supplies.