Mitie Boss Joins Ranks Of Whitehall Women

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor

One of Britain's top women bosses is to join the ranks of Whitehall non-executive directors as the Government intensifies pressure on major companies to increase their complement of female board members.

I understand that Ruby McGregor-Smith, chief executive of the FTSE-250 support services group Mitie, is to join the board of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) during the next few months.

Mrs McGregor-Smith, who was awarded an OBE in the 2012 New Year's Honours List, will become the latest non-executive appointee to a Government department under a Coalition initiative launched in 2010 to improve efficiency in Whitehall.

Ruby McGregor-Smith (image: Mitie)

Her recruitment follows the departure from the DCMS board of Lord Coe and the anticipated exit of Sir Peter Bazalgette, the new chairman of the Arts Council.

Mrs McGregor-Smith, who has been chief executive of Mitie since 2007, will become the twentieth female non-executive appointed as part of the Whitehall efficiency drive.

Led by Lord Browne, the former BP chief executive who serves as the lead non-executive across Government departments, the initiative involves around 60 leading figures from the business community, including Sir Andrew Witty, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, Paul Walsh, chief executive of Diageo, and Ian Cheshire, who runs the DIY retailer Kingfisher.

Roughly one-third of the 60 non-executives are women, reflecting the Government's determination to avoid being accused of failing to employ sufficient women in boardroom posts at a time when it is pressing UK plc to do the same.

Research published earlier this month by Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders showed that the proportion of women promoted to the boards of public companies had slowed, jeopardising the prospects of reaching a target of a quarter of boardroom roles being occupied by women by 2015.

Mitie declined to comment.

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