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Good afternoon, and welcome to the Atlantic Council. For those of you who dont know me, im frank miller. Im a member of the board here at the council. And the principal of the group. Were all very pleased today to have the opportunity to hear from steven lovegrove, the permanent secretary at the ministry of defense in london. Steven became the permanent secretary in april of 2016. Prior to that he was the permanent secretary for the department of energy and Climate Change and had distinguished career before that both in government and in the private sector. For those of you who dont know, the permanent secretary is the governments principle adviser on defense and has responsibility for policy, finance and planning as a departmental accounting officer. The principle the permanent secretary set strategy for defense, including corporate strategy, heads the department of state in the m. O. D. Civil service and the Overall Organization management and staffing of defense. So for those of you
The u. K. Pearmanent speck tarry spoke earlier today about defense strike thategy and rela with the Strong Alliance with the u. S. From the atlantic counsel, this is just under an hour. Good afternoon and welcome to the atlantic counsel. Im frank miller and a member of the board here at counsel, and the principal of the group. Were all very pleased today to have the opportunity to hear from steven who is the permanent secretary at the minister of defense in london. Steven became the permanent secretary in april of 2016 prior to that he was department of energy and Climate Change and had a distinguished career before that both in government and in the private sector. For those of you that dont know, the permanent secretary is the governments principle advisor on defense and has responsibility for policy, finance and planning as a deputy accounting officer. The principal, the sorry, the permanent secretary sets strategy for defense including Corporate Strategy and Overall Organization ma