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EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREER Mottram was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School, Birmingham , he entered the central government civil service in 1968 aged 22 with a first class degree in international relations from Keele University . Most of his peers were from Oxbridge . From 1975 until 1977 he served in the Defence And Overseas Secretariat of the Cabinet Office . He then became Private Secretary to a succession of Secretaries Of State For Defence . In 1985 , as Private Secretary to Michael Heseltine , the Secretary of State at the Ministry Of Defence , he was a witness for the prosecution in the trial of Clive Ponting , who was later acquitted of breaking the Official Secrets Act for passing information Tam Dalyell , the Labour Member Of Parliament about the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War . When asked whether answers to parliamentary questions should be truthful and not deliberately ambiguous or misleading, there was a long silence before he replied: "In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth". From 1986 to 1989 he was the Under Secretary responsible for the defence programme, and from 1989 to 1992 the Deputy Secretary with responsibilities for UK defence policy and strategy, and defence relations with other countries at the time of the end of the Cold War . MULTI-PURPOSE PERMANENT SECRETARY After this,in 1992, he was appointed as a Permanent Secretary , first at the Office Of Public Service And Science in the Cabinet Office . His responsibilities there included public service change, Civil Service management questions, and science and technology policy and the science budget.
Mottram was appointed subsequently made Permanent Secretary for the Department For Work And Pensions (DWP) in May 2002. SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE CO-ORDINATOR Sir Richard moved to a strategic position at the Cabinet Office on 11 November 2005 as Security And Intelligence Co-ordinator (still as a permanent secretary and also as a safe pair of hands with wide experience across government). He succeeded Sir David Omand , the first holder of the position created in 2002. As part of this role, created to parallel but learn from creation in the USA of a Department Of Homeland Security , "he
According to the Cabinet Office explanation of his role, "'' The Security and Intelligence Coordinator is the Accounting Officer for the Single Intelligence Account, from which the three Security and Intelligence Agencies are funded. He also acts as Deputy Chair of the Civil Contingencies Committee, supports the Home Secretary in his role as Chair and, in the event of any serious incident requiring central government coordination, acts as the Government's senior Crisis Manager. Sir Richard also now chairs the Joint Intelligence Committee , whose credibility needed to be reestablished after intelligence reports were apparently "sexed-up" for PR purposes during the chairmanship of John Scarlett . The JIC's role had come under scrutiny in the review of the information about Weapons Of Mass Destruction in Iraq and the Hutton Inquiry into the suicide of MoD weapons expert, Dr. David Kelly . OTHER ROLES Sir Richard is a Governor and a Member of the Council of the Ditchley Foundation , a Governor of Ashridge Business School , and served as President and then a Board Member of the Commonwealth Association For Public Administration And Management . REFERENCES
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