So a big Eye welcome to Philip Rutnam, who has been appointed the new Permanent Secretary at the DfT.
Rutman is currently Director General Business and Skills at BIS and will take up his new post in Marsham Street on 11th April 2012.
According to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills website:
Philip Rutnam was appointed Director General, Business and Skills in December 2010. Prior to this he had been Director General, Business, since March 2009.
Philip was previously at Ofcom where he was a Partner and then Board Member. He helped to establish Ofcom as an organisation and then to lead its work on competition, economic regulation and use of the radio spectrum.
A former senior Treasury official, Philip Rutnam's career also includes working in corporate finance at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, a period as Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary, and responsibility for the Treasury's interest in business and enterprise. He also previously represented the UK at the European Investment Bank.
In light of the Command Paper's terse dismissal of Open Access competition, Eye is unsure what use his Ofcom experience will be...UPDATE: This from Sir Humphrey Beeching...
I'm pleased to see that Lucy Chadwick has also been named the new Director-General of Major Projects and London.
Bobby Devereux and I both had her marked out for great things, and of course she covered the role just a year ago.
With everyone at the Department playing musical chairs, I look forward to hearing where my old friend Peter Strachan ends up.
UPDATE: This from Minster Benn...
Has Sir Humphrey been at the dishwater again?
Ms Chadwick is not taking on Mr Strachan's job.
She will be taking up the post of DG International, Strategy and Environmental.
If that isn't an Oxymoron.
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