Richard Mottram
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Sir Richard Mottram GCB |
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| Born |
Richard Clive Mottram 23 April 1946 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Chairman of Amey PLC |
| Known for | British civil servant |
Sir Richard Clive Mottram, GCB (born 23 April 1946) is chairman or board member of a number of private and public sector organisations. He is chairman of the board of Amey PLC. He is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and member of the Advisory Board of LSE IDEAS. He is a trustee of the Royal Anniversary Trust which oversees The Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education .
He was formerly a British civil servant, who retired in 2007 from his most recent senior post as Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office.
Mottram was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School in Birmingham. He entered the central government civil service in 1968 aged 22 with a first class degree in International relations from Keele University. Most of his peers were from Oxbridge. From 1975 until 1977, he served in the Defence and Overseas Secretariat of the Cabinet Office. He was then the secretary of two study groups on the rationale for and system options for a successor to the UK's strategic nuclear deterrent which led subsequently to the decision to adopt Trident. He was then appointed private secretary to the permanent under secretary, MOD: Sir Frank Cooper. From 1982-1986, he was private secretary to a succession of Secretaries of State for Defence - John Nott, Michael Heseltine and the late George Younger. He was Heseltine's Private Secretary at the time of his resignation in 1986 over the Westland affair.
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