Preceded by Richard Alderman Nationality British Award Order of the Bath (2011) | Citizenship United Kingdom Profession Barrister | |
Minister Dominic Grieve (until 2014), Jeremy Wright (since 2014) Full Name David John Mark Green Born 8 March 1954 (age 62) ( 1954-03-08 ) Alma mater St Catharine's College, Cambridge Education St Catharine's College, Cambridge | ||
David John Mark Green CB QC (born 8 March 1954) is a British lawyer and prosecutor, serving since 2012 as the Director of the Serious Fraud Office.
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Career
Educated at Christ's Hospital and then St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, Green initially joined Defence Intelligence in 1975, leaving in 1978, being called to the Bar in 1979 and practising as a barrister. He has served as an assistant Recorder since 1996, and as a 2000, when he also became a Queen's Counsel.
In 2004, Green was appointed the Director of the newly-created Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office alongside the creation of HM Revenue and Customs. He served as its Director though until the office's merger into the Crown Prosecution Service in 2010, after which he served for a further year as the CPS's Director of their new Central Fraud Group. In 2011 he left the CPS to return to private practice as a barrister, being replaced by Sue Patten.
In 2012, Green was appointed to succeed Richard Alderman as the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, where he currently serves in his second term. As of 2015, Green was paid a salary of between £170,000 and £174,999, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
Personal life
In the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2011, he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).