Sue Gray (civil servant)
Sue Gray is a senior Civil Servant in the United Kingdom working for Government. She currently serves as the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Finance in the Northern Ireland Executive. Before that, she served for 20 years in the Cabinet Office as the Director-General of the Propriety and Ethics Team and Head of Private Offices Group in the Cabinet Office.
In her rôle overseeing ministerial offices and ethics in government, Gray was described as "the woman who runs the country". She ran the Plebgate inquiry inside the Cabinet Office, the 2012 reform of non-departmental public bodies, and the investigation into allegations against Damian Green MP relating to his use of computers intended for work purposes. She is regarded to be fairly unknown and mysterious relative to the status of her position.
In January 2018, the Northern Ireland Executive announced that Gray would transfer to the Northern Ireland Civil Service as Permanent Secretary of their Department of Finance from May 2018. In April 2018 it was announced that Gray would be replaced at the Cabinet Office by Helen MacNamara.Offices held
