Nicholas Joicey

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Nicholas Joicey CB
Born	(1970-05-11) 11 May 1970 (age 54) Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England
Education	Wintringham School
Alma mater	University of Bristol (BA) Peterhouse, Cambridge (Ph.D.)
Spouse	Rachel Reeves
Academic background
Thesis	The intellectual, political and cultural significance of Penguin books 1935-c.1956 (1995)

Nicholas Beverley Joicey CB (born 11 May 1970) is Second Permanent Secretary and Group Chief Operating Officer at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He was briefly Director General of the Cabinet Office's Economic and Domestic Secretariat, having previously been Director General for Finance at the Department for Work and Pensions, and before that, Director General for Strategy, International and Finance at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He previously worked as private secretary and speech writer to United Kingdom Chancellor Gordon Brown, as a journalist at The Observer newspaper and as director of the International Department at HM Treasury.