Martin Donnelly (UK civil servant)
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Sir Martin Donnelly KCB CMG |
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| Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Trade | |
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Assumed office 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Minister | Liam Fox |
| Preceded by | none |
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| Born | 4 June 1958 |
Sir Martin Eugene Donnelly KCB CMG (born 4 June 1958) is a British civil servant. He is, since 2016, Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Trade.
Donnelly joined the Treasury in 1980. In 1988 he was Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and from 1989 in Brussels working in the Cabinet of Leon Brittan before returning to London in 1993. In 1995 he went on secondment to the French Finance Ministry, returning to the Treasury in 1996. From 1998 to 2003 he worked in the Cabinet Office as Deputy Head of the European Secretariat, and then moved to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate of the Home Office for a year.
In 2004, Donnelly was promoted to be Director-General for Economics (later, for Europe and Globalisation) in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 2008–09 he went on secondment to UK telecoms regulator Ofcom, returning to the Cabinet Office to lead the Smarter Government whitepaper. In 2010 he was briefly made acting head of the FCO after Sir Peter Ricketts became the UK's first National Security Advisor. After a few months, he was appointed as permanent secretary at BIS, succeeding Sir Simon Fraser, who replaced at the FCO.
As of September 2015, Donnelly was paid a salary of between £180,000 and £184,999, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
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