Dame Una O'Brien

Dame Una was appointed Senior Independent Trustee of Lloyd’s Register Foundation on 16 January 2026.  She is also Chair of the Nominations Committee.  Dame Una was a member of the Lloyd’s Register Group Limited and Lloyd’s Register Foundation Remuneration Committees from September 2023 until January 2026 and a member of the Audit, Risk and Investment Committee from 29 September 2022 until 30 June 2024.

Dame Una was the Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care between 2010 and 2016. She has extensive UK and international experience of healthcare policy and government, having held a wide variety of senior policy roles in Whitehall departments and the NHS over a 30-year career in public service. Whilst working primarily in and for the Department of Health, she was also seconded to be Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Transport and worked in the Prime Minister’s Efficiency Unit under both Conservative and Labour governments. Since leaving the Civil Service, Una has served as a trustee on charitable and higher education boards; she has completed a term of office as a trustee of Macmillan Cancer and as a Council member of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  Currently Una is a member of the Board of Visitors at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.