Chief Executives
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2024 - date: Alan Vallance
Appointed: October 2023 (took up position on 2 April 2024)
Previous roles: Chief Executive of the Chartered Insurance Institute; Chief Executive of the Royal Institute of British Architects; Group Chief Operating Officer at the Law Society
Accountancy firms associated with: Ernst & Whinney
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2006 - 2024: Michael Izza
Appointed: October 2006, took up position on 6 December 2006. Retirement announced in March 2023 and left at the end of March 2024.
Previous roles: ICAEW Chief operating officer 2004-06; Executive director Finance and Operations 2002-03
Accountancy firms associated with: Coopers & Lybrand -
2003 - 2006: Eric Anstee
Appointed: July 2003, took up position September 2003. Retirement announced 20 June 2006.
Previous roles: Finance director, Old Mutual plc; Group Finance Director at The Energy Group plc
Accountancy firms associated with: Keens. Shay Keens; Ernst & Young
Secretary Generals
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2002 - 2003: Peter Owen
Appointed: March 2002. Retired 5 September 2003.
Previous roles: ICAEW Executive director 1998-2002; Senior civil service rolls with Department of Education Cabinet Office, Department for the Environment
Accountancy firms associated with: N/A -
1997 - 2002: John Collier
Appointed: Appointed on temporary basis in November 1997, confirmed on permanent basis in June 1998. Resigned March 2002.
Previous roles: Finance director, Earth Centre; Chief Executive, Newcastle Initiative; Chief Executive, Lowes Group plc
Accountancy firms associated with: Price Waterhouse
Secretaries
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1990 - 1997: Andrew Colquhoun
Appointed: July 1990. Resigned November 1997.
Previous roles: HM Diplomatic Service; Principal, Cabinet Office; Shandwick Consultants. Director of Education & Training ICAEW.
Accountancy firms associated with: N/A -
1983 - 1990: Ernest Warne
Appointed: Secretary designate August 1982. Took up position 1 January 1983. Retired,
Previous roles: Board of Trade; Department of Trade and Industry; Deputy director-general Office of Fair Trading
Accountancy firms associated with: N/A
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1972 - 1982: John Hough
Appointed: 1 January 1972. Retired 31 December 1982.
Previous roles: Co-founder London Computer Group (later the British Computer Society); IBM (UK);
Accountancy firms associated with: M R Corbett; Derbyshire & Co; Turquand Youngs & Co; Robson, Morrow & Co. -
1965 - 1971: Cecil Evan-Jones
Appointed: 1 Nov 1962 (joint with Frank Wilkinson), 1 January 1965 (on retirement of Wilkinson). Retired: 31 December 1971
Previous roles: Gordon Highlanders, Deputy Secretary of The Society of Incorporate Accountants; Assistant Secretary ICAEW; Under-secretary ICAEW
Accountancy firms associated with: N/A
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1962 - 1965: Frank Wilkinson / Cecil Evan-Jones
Appointed: 1 November 1962. Frank Wilkinson retired through ill health 31 December 1964.
Previous roles (Wilkinson): Middlesex Yeomanry (TA); Assistant Secretary ICAEW, Deputy Secretary ICAEW
Accountancy firms associated with (Wilkinson): 'articles in a small provincial practice'
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1950 - 1962: Alan MacIver
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1935 - 1950: Robert Bankes
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1899 - 1935: George Colville
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1880 - 1899: Walter Howgrave
See also
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