Alice Perkins

Alice Perkins

Alice Perkins graduated from St Anne's College, Oxford and joined the Civil Service Fast Track Stream in 1971.

The early years of her career were spent in what was then known as the Department of Health and Social Security. In 1993 she moved to the Treasury as Director on public spending until 1998 when she returned to the Department of Health as Director General for Corporate Management responsible for administration. In 2001 Perkins moved to the Cabinet Office to work on the quango "civil service reform and people issues" for a year, followed by a post leading a "Corporate Development Group" (civil service reform).

In 2006 Perkins joined the board of the country's largest airports operator BAA, shortly before it was taken over by the Spanish firm Ferrovial. [cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/aug/20/businesscomment.theairlineindustry|title=Couldn't BAA have come up with a contingency plan?|author=Richard Wachman|date=August 20 2006|publisher=The Observer|accessdate=2008-08-02] She is a member of the Business Advisory Forum of the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford. [cite web|url=http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/corporate/baf/|title=Business Advisory Forum|publisher=Saïd Business School|accessdate=2008-08-02]

Alice Perkins is the second wife of Jack Straw, whose first marriage ended in divorce in the mid-1970s. [cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1314756/Cabinet's-own-marriage-failures-force-retreat-on-traditional-wedlock.html|title=Cabinet's own marriage failures force retreat on traditional wedlock|author=Joe Murphy|date=19 Jun 2001|publisher=Daily Telegraph|accessdate=2008-08-02] In 2002 she was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) by Prime Minister Tony Blair. [cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/jun/15/arts.politics|title=Corrections and Clarifications column|date=June 25, 2002|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=2008-08-02]

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