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Mark Addison Mark was until 2006 a career civil servant. He joined the Department of Employment in 1978 and subsequently worked in a number of central government departments, and in a range of operational and policy roles, including spells as the Safety Policy Director in the Health and Safety Executive, as the Director of the Better Regulation Unit at the Cabinet Office and as the Chief Executive of the Crown Prosecution Service. From 2001, Mark was at Defra as the Director General of Operations and Service Delivery. He was Acting Permanent Secretary for a short period in 2005 and took over as the Rural Payments Agency Chief Executive on a temporary basis when the farm payments crisis broke in March 2006. While at Defra, Mark championed its work to become the first government department to sign up to the Carbon Management Programme. In addition to being a member of the Salix Board, Mark is also a Non Executive Director of The National Archives. |
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