Visit by Alex Chisholm (Permanent Secretary, Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy)

On Friday 3rd February 2017, NAMRIP was visited by Alex Chisholm, the Permanent Secretary in the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. This followed the publication on Monday of the UK Government’s green paper on Industrial Strategy. The full 132page industrial strategy can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/585273/building-our-industrial-strategy-green-paper.pdf

As Permanent Secretary, Alex is responsible for leading the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Alex Chisholm became Permanent Secretary for BEIS in September 2016 - Prior to that he was:

• Joint Permanent Secretary for BEIS

• Permanent Secretary for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

• Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

• Chairperson and Commissioner of Ireland’s communications regulatory agency, ComReg

• Chair of the Economic Regulators Network in Ireland

• Senior executive positions in the media, technology and e-commerce industries, with Pearson plc, Financial Times Group, eCountries Inc and Ecceleration Ltd

Alex was accompanied by Gavin Costigan (Director of Public Policy at the University).