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Madelaine McTernan CB

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Chief of Defence Nuclear
Maddy is Chief of Defence Nuclear at the Ministry of Defence (MoD). In between December 2020 and September 2022, she was Director General of the Vaccine Taskforce ( VTF ), a joint unit of  BEIS  and  DHSC , responsible for securing  COVID-19  vaccines for the UK. She was made Companion of the Order of Bath in 2022 for her work on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before her appointment as Director General in December 2020, Maddy was the lead negotiator for the  VTF . Maddy was also Director General for the Energy Supply Taskforce in BEIS between August and December 2022. Prior to this, Maddy was a Director at UK Government Investments ( UKGI ) and a non-executive director of UK Export Finance. Before joining the public sector, Maddy was a Managing Director and Head of UK Mergers and Acquisitions at the investment bank Credit Suisse. She is also a qualified lawyer, having studied law at Trinity College Cambridge and qualifying at Freshfields. Maddy was an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Finance at Cass Business School between 2013 and 2016. She holds an honorary doctorate from Nottingham Trent University.
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