Freya Guinness is Director General for Corporate Services and Chief Operating Officer at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ( DSIT ). Freya was Director General for Corporate Services at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ( BEIS ) from April 2021 to February 2023. Prior to this, Freya was Director for Corporate Operations and Organisational Development at the Office of Rail and Road ( ORR ). She was responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership across all of ORR ’s corporate activities. She has previously held a number of roles in other regulatory organisations, including the Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ) and Ofcom . Freya spent her early career in the private sector working as a management consultant and in telecoms.