Dame Glenys Jean Stacey DBE (''née'' McBride; born 1954) is a solicitor and civil servant serving as chair of the

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from February 2021. She was Chief Executive and Chief Regulator of

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, acting in the post from August to December 2020, and previously from 2012 to 2016. Stacey also served as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Probation and led HM Inspectorate of Probation for England and Wales from 2016 and 2019. She has worked in the public sector at senior management level since 2000. Previously she has worked as chief executive of

, of Standards for England, at Animal Health (now part of the

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), at the Greater Manchester Magistrates' Courts Committee (now part of

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), and at the

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. She was appointed

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(DBE) in the

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for services to education. Stacey returned as Ofqual's chief regulator in an interim capacity on 26 August 2020 following the resignation of

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in connection with the 2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy.

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