Department for Culture Media and Sport
our structure
DCMS is managed by our Permanent Secretary, two Directors General, and four non-executive Directors who make up the DCMS Board, together with four directors who have cross-cutting remits. The Board is supported by four governance teams including an executive committee, made up of our Directors.
Jonathan Stephens
Permanent Secretary
- Leads the Department in order to achieve the Secretary of State's objectives
Chairs the DCMS Board
Accounts to Parliament for Departmental expenditure
top
Andrew Ramsay
Director General, Partnerships and Programmes
Directly responsible for Departmental sector and programme teams including:
- Culture sector
- Media sector
- Sports and Leisure sector
- Programmes teams
Directors:
Mick Elliott
Director, Culture
Jon Zeff
Director, Media
Paul Bolt
Director, Sports and Leisure
Graham Turnock
Director, Programmes
Anita Charlesworth
Chief Analyst
top
Jeremy Beeton
Director General, Government Olympic Executive
Directly responsible for Government Olympic Executive, including:
- Build and Finance
- Legacy
- Staging
Directors and Senior Managers:
David Goldstone
Director, Build and Finance
David Brooker
Director, Legacy
Nicola Roche
Director, Staging
Shaun Cove
Head of GOE Operations
Sarah Jones
Head of GOE Communications
top
Other Executive Committee members directly reporting to the Permanent Secretary, include:
David Roe
Director, Corporate Services
Simon Judge
Director, Finance
Patrick Kilgarriff
Director, Legal Services
Jane Cooper
Director, External Affairs
Rita Patel
Principal Private Secretary
top
Non-Executive Directors:
Parminder Vir OBE
- Established Ingenious World Cinema at Ingenious Media Investments
- Business Advisor for the Creative Industries to the London Development Agency, Diversity Advisor to MTV, ITV and RSC
Darra Singh OBE
- Chief Executive, Ealing Council
- Formerly, Chair of the Commission on Integration and Cohesion
Alexis Cleveland
- Alexis Cleveland is Director General of Transformational Government at the Cabinet Office.
- Alexis Cleveland will also sit on the department’s Audit Committee.
- A statistician by training Alexis has spent her Civil Service career in policy, ICT, shared services and operational delivery. She left her role as Chief Executive of the Pension Service in 2007 to head transformational government in the Cabinet Office.
Ann Green
- Ann Green is Chair of the Royal Armouries in Leeds, which is a Non Departmental Public Body.
- Ann brings wide experience of the public, private and voluntary sectors. Following a career in finance and general management, she now sits on the boards of several small private companies and chairs both the Royal Armouries and Hadrian’s Wall Heritage Ltd
Back to top