FSA appoints Emily Miles as new CEO
She will assume the role in September.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced the appointment of Emily Miles as its new chief executive.
Miles is currently the acting Director-General for the EU Exit Delivery Group in Defra and will join the FSA in September 2019.
Emily joined Defra in November 2015 as its group director of strategy and coordinated work on the domestic implications of EU Exit for Defra after the referendum in 2016.
“She joins us at a pivotal moment in food regulation, as we implement our new regulatory regime outside the EU, manage the short-term impacts of leaving the EU, and drive forward our modernisation plans,” FSA chair Heather Hancock said in a statement.
FSA director of regulatory and legal strategy Rod Ainsworth will continue as interim CEO until Miles joins the agency in September.
