16 Facts About John Manzoni

John Manzoni later studied for a Master's degree in management as a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University in 1994.

John Manzoni started to work for the oil and gas company BP in 1983.

John Manzoni was chief executive for refining and marketing at BP at the time of the Texas City refinery explosion in 2005, in which 15 people were killed and 170 injured.

In 2007, a month after the BP report was made public, John Manzoni left BP to become the president and chief executive officer of Talisman Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company.

John Manzoni replaced James Buckee, who had headed the company for 14 years.

John Manzoni resigned from Talisman and was replaced by Hal Kvisle in September 2012.

In February 2014, John Manzoni joined the British civil service as the chief executive of the Major Projects Authority, a role under the remit of the Cabinet Office.

Whilst in this role, John Manzoni served as a director for the brewing and beverage company SABMiller, chair of the energy company Leyshon Energy and an adviser to the venture capital company Adamant Ventures.

On 13 October 2014, John Manzoni was appointed as the first chief executive of the civil service, after the position was split out from that of the Head of the Home Civil Service when Bob Kerslake retired.

John Manzoni's appointment was criticised by the Green Party Member of Parliament Caroline Lucas.

The Cabinet Office said that it was satisfied that there was no conflict of interest, before later announcing that John Manzoni would resign from his position as director in 2015.

In 2015, John Manzoni told a conference of the FDA trade union that civil service roles didn't need as much pay as they were more interesting than the private sector.

John Manzoni was succeeded by Alex Chisholm, who took the title of chief operating officer of the Civil Service.

John Manzoni was appointed to join the board of the alcohol company Diageo in 2020, with his term starting in October.

John Manzoni was appointed Chair-Designate for the newly renationalised Atomic Weapons Establishment in November 2020: he will take up the post on 1 July 2021.

John Manzoni was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 2020 New Year Honours for public service.