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Suzanne McCarthy

Independent Chair

Suzanne is the Chair of the Joint Audit Panel for the Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime and the Metropolitan Police Service, a Non-Executive Board member of the College of Policing, the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority and the Fundraising Regulator where she is Chair of the Standards Committee and an Assistant Boundary Commissioner. She is also the Deputy Chair of the Valuation Tribunal Service.

She has been CEO of both the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Her last Executive role was as the UK’s Immigration Services Commissioner.

Initially working as a lawyer, with an LL.M. degree from Cambridge, she left private practice and then lectured in law at Manchester University before going into the civil service working first at the Home Office, where she served as Private Secretary to two Home Secretaries, and then at HM Treasury.

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