Sue Owen
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Sue Owen CB |
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| Permanent Secretary of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport |
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Assumed office 1 October 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Minister |
Maria Miller (until 2014), Sajid Javid (2014–2015), John Whittingdale (2015-2016), Karen Bradley (July 2016-Present) |
| Preceded by | Sir Jonathan Stephens |
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Susan Jane Owen 3 June 1955 |
| Nationality | British |
Susan Jane Owen CB (born 3 June 1955) is a British civil servant, economist and former academic. She has served as the Permanent Secretary for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport since October 2013.
She was educated at Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton, London. She received a degree in economics from Newnham College, Cambridge in 1976 and a Master of Science at Cardiff University in Wales in 1982.
Owen was an academic lecturer and researcher at Cardiff University and the London School of Economics, where she studied women in the labour market from 1979 until 1988. Owen then joined HM Treasury as an economic adviser in 1989, before working on EU Co-ordination from 1995 to 1998. She was then seconded to the Number 10 Policy Unit as the economic advisor on the Work/Family Balance Policy project, followed by a three-year tour from 1999 to 2002 as the Foreign Office's Counsellor for economic affairs and head of the economics section at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C..
In 2002, Owen returned to the Treasury as Director for EMU Policy, Euro Preparations and Debt Management. In 2006 she moved to the Department for International Development as their Director-General for Corporate Performance, before briefly serving as their acting Permanent Secretary in 2008 between Sir Suma Chakrabarti and Dame Minouche Shafik. She then left for Department for Work and Pensions as their Director-General for Welfare and Wellbeing (from 2011, for Strategy), where she served from 2009 until 2013.
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