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Born 30 November 1966 (age 57) ( 1966-11-30 ) Alma mater Corpus Christi College, Oxford Education Warwick School, Corpus Christi College, Oxford | ||
Stephen Lovegrove on Managing the UK Ministry of Defence
Stephen Augustus Lovegrove CB (born 30 November 1966) is a British civil servant and presently the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence.
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- Stephen Lovegrove on Managing the UK Ministry of Defence
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- Early years
- Previous career
- Civil Service career
- Family
- References
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Early years
Lovegrove was born in 1966, the second child of John and Zenia Stewart Lovegrove. His father was a Warwickshire industrialist and entrepreneur. Lovegrove was educated at Warwick School and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was awarded a first class degree in English in 1989.
Previous career
Between 1990 and 1994 Lovegrove worked for Hydra Associates, a strategic media consultancy. In 1995, he joined Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (subsequently Deutsche Bank), where he remained until 2004 and became head of the European media team.
Civil Service career
In April 2004, he joined the Shareholder Executive, becoming acting Chief Executive on 27 June 2007 and Chief Executive on 18 April 2008. In that capacity, he was also appointed to the Board of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and acts as chairman of (the no longer trading) British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.
He was appointed as Permanent Secretary of the Department of Energy and Climate Change with effect from 4 February 2013. In March 2016, after three years in that post, the Government announced his appointment as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence. Lovegrove was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2013 New Year Honours.
Family
In 1997, Lovegrove married the screen-writer Kate Brooke. They have two daughters and live in London.