Clive Maxwell CB CBE

Clive Maxwell is Second Permanent Secretary for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DESNZ ). He was previously the Second Permanent Secretary for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ( BEIS ) from November 2022 to February 2023. Clive has worked across government in a range of senior roles. He was Director General, High Speed Rail Group in the Department for Transport ( DfT ) from 2017 to 2022. He led work on changes to energy policy from 2014 to 2017, overseeing a number of major projects and policy reforms as a Director General in the Department of Energy and Climate Change and then in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He held a number of senior roles at the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) from 2009 to 2014, including Chief Executive from 2012 to 2014. Prior to OFT , Clive worked for HM Treasury from 1992 to 2009, including responding to the financial crisis from 2007 to 2009 as Director, Financial Stability.