Jill Rutter is a former British civil servant. She is a senior research fellow of

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, and was previously the programme director at the

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(IfG) directing the organisation's work on better policy making and

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. She has written a number of reports on civil service and the implications of

for Whitehall and Westminster. Rutter's writing is frequently in the media and she is a regular commentator on radio and television.

Education

Rutter studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Somerville College Oxford and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975. She speaks English, German, Spanish and French.

Career

From 1978 until 1997, Rutter worked for

HM Treasury His Majesty's Treasury (HM Treasury), occasionally referred to as the Exchequer, or more informally the Treasury, is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance policy and ec ...

. Her roles included Press Secretary to the Chancellor, Head of Treasury Communications, and Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary. At that time, Rutter was also working on areas such as tax, local government finance, and debt and export finance. From 1998 until 2003 Rutter worked for BP plc. Her roles included Performance Manager for Retail Iberia Business Unit, Integration Manager for Central and Eastern Europe, and Communications and Engagement Director for the Strategic Accounts team in London. From 2004 until 2009, Rutter was Director of Strategy and Sustainable Development at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. From 2009 till 2019, Rutter was Programme Director of the

. Since 2019, Rutter has worked for

Selected works

''Read before Burning: Arm's Length government for a new administration''
(July 2010), with Tom Gash et al. *''Policy Making in the Real World'' (April 2011), with Michael Hallsworth and Simon Parker. *''Devolution as Policy Laboratory'' (January 2016), with Akash Paun and Anna Nicholl.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rutter, Jill Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Living people Year of birth missing (living people) English civil servants Civil servants in HM Treasury