Helen Marjorie Kilpatrick (born 9 October 1958) is a British

civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

. She was

Governor of the Cayman Islands The Governor of the Cayman Islands is the representative of the British monarch in the United Kingdom's overseas territory of the Cayman Islands. The Governor, a civil servant who has in modern times typically been a British subject normally resi ...

between 2013 and 2018.

Career

Kilpatrick was educated at

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

. She began her career in local government in

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, qualifying as a Public Finance

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. She was appointed Group Auditor at the

Greater London Council The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council (LCC) which had covered a much smaller area. The GLC was dissolved in 198 ...

in 1985, going through various local government positions, including Controller of Financial Services at

Greenwich London Borough Council Greenwich London Borough Council is the local authority for the Royal Borough of Greenwich in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. Greenwich is divided into 23 wards, electing ...

from 1989-1995. In 1995 she was appointed to be the County Treasurer of

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, a position she held for ten years. She was also Deputy Chief Executive. In 2005 she was appointed by the Home Office to be Director General of Finance & Corporate Services. While in this post she was appointed CB in the 2010 New Year Honours. During 2012 and into 2013 she served as the acting Home Office Permanent Secretary. In June 2013 she was announced as the next Governor of the Cayman Islands. Commenting on this, Mrs Kilpatrick said “I am honoured and delighted to be appointed Governor of the Cayman Islands. I look forward to working in a constructive partnership with the newly elected government to ensure a safe, successful and sustainable future for the Cayman Islands”. She left the post in March 2018.

Offices

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kilpatrick, Helen Marjorie 1958 births Living people Alumni of King's College, Cambridge British civil servants Governors of the Cayman Islands Companions of the Order of the Bath Guernsey women 21st-century British civil servants