Charles Roxburgh

Charles Fergusson Roxburgh is a British civil servant serving as Second Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury.

Charles Roxburgh
Second Permanent Secretary of
HM Treasury
Assumed office
4 July 2016
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
ChancellorGeorge Osborne
Philip Hammond
Sajid Javid
Rishi Sunak
Preceded byJohn Kingman
Personal details
Spouse(s)Karen Pierce
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Harvard University

Biography

Roxburgh was educated at Stowe School.[1] He obtained a degree in Classics from Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] before studying for a Masters in Business Administration at Harvard Business School.[1]

Roxburgh worked at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co for 26 years, including as a senior partner.[2] His roles at the firm included co-head of the global strategy practice, head of the UK financial institutions group and leader of the global corporate and investment banking practice. He worked in McKinsey & Co's New York City financial institutions practice for seven years. In 2009 he became the London-based director of the McKinsey Global Institute. In 2011 he was elected to McKinsey & Co's global board.[3]

Roxburgh joined the Treasury in February 2013.[4] He was Director General of Financial Services at the Treasury from 2013. He sat on the Financial Stability Board and represented the Treasury on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee. On 4 July 2016 he was appointed Second Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, overseeing its growth, financial services and infrastructure agendas.[2]

He is married to the diplomat Karen Pierce. They have two sons, born in 1991 and 1997.[5]

References
  1. "ROXBURGH, Charles Fergusson". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. Vol. 2019 (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
  2. Brecknell, Suzannah (4 July 2016). "Treasury appoints Charles Roxburgh as second permanent secretary". Civil Service World. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  3. "Charles Roxburgh". Bank of England. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  4. Dickson, Annabelle (14 February 2022). "Britain's political power couples — ranked". Politico. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  5. "Change of UK's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and World Trade Organisation in Geneva". GOV.UK. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2012.


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