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Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

The Right Honourable
The Lord O'Donnell
GCB FBA
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Cabinet Secretary
In office
1 September 2005 – 31 December 2011
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
David Cameron
Preceded by Andrew Turnbull
Succeeded by Sir Jeremy Heywood
Head of the Home Civil Service
In office
1 September 2005 – 31 December 2011
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
David Cameron
Preceded by Andrew Turnbull
Succeeded by Sir Bob Kerslake
Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office
In office
1 September 2005 – 31 December 2011
Minister John Hutton
Hilary Armstrong
Ed Miliband
Liam Byrne
Tessa Jowell
Francis Maude
Preceded by Andrew Turnbull
Succeeded by Ian Watmore
Permanent Secretary for the Treasury
In office
26 June 2002 – 2 August 2005
Chancellor Gordon Brown
Preceded by Andrew Turnbull
Succeeded by Nicholas Macpherson
Personal details
Born (1952-10-01) 1 October 1952 (age 64)
South London, United Kingdom
Alma mater University of Warwick
Nuffield College, Oxford
University of Glasgow
Religion Roman Catholicism

Augustine Thomas O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell, GCB, FBA (born 1 October 1952) is a former British senior civil servant and economist, who between 2005 and 2011 (under three Prime Ministers) served as the Cabinet Secretary, the highest official in the British Civil Service.

O'Donnell announced after the 2010 General Election that he would step down within that Parliament and did so at the end of 2011. His post was then split into three positions: he was succeeded as Cabinet Secretary by Sir Jeremy Heywood, as Head of the Home Civil Service by Sir Bob Kerslake (in a part-time role), and as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office by Ian Watmore. Whilst Cabinet Secretary, O'Donnell was regularly referred to within the Civil Service, and subsequently in the popular press, as GOD; this was mainly because of his initials. In 2012, O'Donnell joined Frontier Economics as a Senior Advisor.

O'Donnell was born and raised in south London. Educated at Salesian College, Battersea, he read Economics at the University of Warwick before taking his MPhil degree at Nuffield College, Oxford. He gained a PhD degree from and was a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the Political Economy Department from 1975 until 1979, when he joined the Treasury as an economist.


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