Bronwyn Hill

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Bronwyn Hill
CBE
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Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
In office
28 March 2011 – 31 July 2015
Secretary of State Caroline Spelman
Owen Paterson
Elizabeth Truss
Preceded by Dame Helen Ghosh
Succeeded by Clare Moriarty
Personal details
Born 1960
Bradford
Nationality British
Alma mater Girton College, Cambridge
Occupation Civil Servant

Bronwyn Hill CBE (born 1960) is a former British civil servant, who served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Hill was born in Bradford in 1960 and educated at St Anthony’s School and St Joseph’s College, Bradford, and at Girton College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a degree in Geography.[1][2] She was awarded a CBE in the 2001 New Year Honours List.[3]

Hill joined the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1981, where she worked on transport planning policy.[2] When the GLC was abolished in 1986, she moved to the Inner London Education Authority and then joined the Department of Transport (later the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and then Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions) in 1988.[2] Between 2005 to 2007, she was Regional Director at the Government Office for the South West before returning to what was now the Department for Transport.[4]

She was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in March 2011.[4] Her appointment brought the number of female permanent secretaries to eight of the 16 government departments for the first time.[5] She stepped down as Permanent Secretary in the summer of 2015.[6]

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Government offices
Preceded by Permanent Secretary of the
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

2011–2015
Succeeded by
Clare Moriarty