Gus O'Donnell
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The Right Honourable The Lord O'Donnell GCB FBA |
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| Cabinet Secretary | |
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In office 1 September 2005 – 31 December 2011 |
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| Prime Minister |
Tony Blair Gordon Brown David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Andrew Turnbull |
| Succeeded by | Sir Jeremy Heywood |
| Head of the Home Civil Service | |
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In office 1 September 2005 – 31 December 2011 |
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| Prime Minister |
Tony Blair Gordon Brown David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Andrew Turnbull |
| Succeeded by | Sir Bob Kerslake |
| Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office | |
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In office 1 September 2005 – 31 December 2011 |
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| 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 | |
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In office 26 June 2002 – 2 August 2005 |
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| Chancellor | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Andrew Turnbull |
| Succeeded by | Nicholas Macpherson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 October 1952 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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