Gill Steward will join Cumbria CC as chief executive in August once the move is approved by full council. Ms Steward is the current chair of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies thinktank. She was chief executive for Bexley LBC from 2016 to 2018 and interim chief executive of West Sussex CC between 2014 and 2016.
Gillian Beasley, chief executive of Cambridgeshire CC and Peterborough City Council, is retiring. Ms Beasley has been at the helm of Peterborough for 19 years and, in addition, was six years ago appointed to run Cambridgeshire in a unique county council/unitary arrangement. In 2008 she was awarded an OBE for her work in local government.
Merton LBC is set to appoint its director of community and housing as its new chief executive.
Hannah Doody, who has played a key role in the borough’s Covid-19 response and has been London’s director lead on testing for care home residents will take up the role immediately if the appointment is approved by full council on 7 July.
Ms Doody said: “I am immensely proud and privileged to have been offered the opportunity to help shape the future of services in a borough I’m both committed to and passionate about, and with staff I have built so much respect for across the council.
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