Melanie Dawes

Dame Melanie Dawes DCB
Chief Executive of the Office of Communications
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 February 2020
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Sharon White
Personal details
Born	Melanie Henrietta Dawes (1966-03-09) 9 March 1966 (age 58)
Spouse	Benedict Brogan ​ (m. 1992)​
Children	1 daughter
Alma mater	New College, Oxford Birkbeck, University of London
Awards	Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (2020)

Dame Melanie Henrietta Dawes DCB (born 9 March 1966) is a British economist and administrator. Since February 2020 she has been Chief Executive of Ofcom. She was previously the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and before that worked at HM Treasury, HM Revenue and Customs, and in the Cabinet Office. She is a Trustee of the Patchwork Foundation, founded by Harris Bokhari.

She is notable in world affairs, despite claiming to be a conservative, for the proposed bill purporting to address online safety which imposes restrictions on platforms such as wikipedia, and would destroy private messaging services like protonmail. She has ties to the defense intelligence establishment, which would benefit thereby.