Ursula Brennan
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Dame Ursula Brennan DCB |
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Clerk of the Crown in Chancery Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice |
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In office July 2012 – July 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Sir Suma Chakrabarti |
| Succeeded by | Richard Heaton |
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Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence |
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In office November 2010 – June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | William Jeffrey |
| Succeeded by | Jon Thompson |
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28 October 1952 Sevenoaks, Kent |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Kent (B.A. 1973) |
Dame Ursula Brennan DCB (born 28 October 1952) is a retired British civil servant and a former Permanent Secretary at the United Kingdom's Ministry of Justice where she was also the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.
Since 1975, Brennan has worked for a myriad of government agencies, including the Department of Health, the Department of Social Security, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Ministry of Defence, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
During her career, she has been an outspoken proponent of the need for gender equality.
For her public service, Brennan was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath in 2013.
Brennan was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, and was educated at Putney High School in London. She attended the University of Kent in Canterbury, where she earned a degree in English and American Literature.
Following university, Brennan worked at the Inner London Education Authority from 1973 to 1975.
In 1975, Brennan began work with the Department of Health and Social Security (which became the Department of Health in 1988). She worked several positions in the health division before joining the social security division, where she worked on disability benefits policy from 1990 to 1993. Brennan moved into operations, becoming director of the department's IT Services Agency from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997, she was disability policy director at the Department of Social Security. After that she became director of Change Management at the department's Benefits Agency, where she oversaw a staff of more than 1,000 employees. She was appointed director-general of the Department for Work and Pensions in 1999.
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