Ursula Brennan

Chief executive of the Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR)

Responsibilities ensuring OCJR has effective plans to drive the Criminal Justice System vision and targets, and to deliver against them champion for change across the criminal justice system ensuring that all criminal justice agencies work together effectively driving delivery of major cross CJS IT projects and ensuring mechanisms are in place to deliver and track the benefits

Biography

Ursula Brennan joined the Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) as Chief Executive in May 2006. Before that Ursula spent two years as Director General, Living, Land and Seas, at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Her responsibilities included leading work on policy and strategy for rural disadvantage, protection of wildlife and the countryside and marine and fisheries business.

Ursula started her working life at the Greater London Council, but spent most of her career on what became the Department for Work and Pensions. At DWP she worked on a range of policies, but also in IT and delivery agencies and on programme management.

Education

English and American Literature at University of Kent, Canterbury.