Sir Ian Charles Franklin Andrews, CBE, TD (born 26 November 1953) is a British public administrator and retired civil servant. Born on 26 November 1953, Andrews attended the University of Bristol before entered HM Civil Service in 1975 as an official in the

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(MoD)."Andrews, Sir Ian Charles Franklin"
''Who's Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2021). Retrieved 26 January 2022. For his work in the MoD he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the

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. He left the MoD to serve as Managing Director of Facilities for the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs from 1995 to 1997. He was then Chief Executive of the Defence Estates Agency from 1998 to 2002 and returned to the MoD as Second

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in 2002, serving until 2008. He was

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in the

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. From 2009 to 2013, he was the non-executive chairman of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, and from 2013 to 2018 he was a non-executive director of

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."Commissioners"
''National Commission''. Retrieved 26 January 2022.

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