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Augustine Thomas O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell, GCB FBA (born 1 October 1952), is a former British senior civil servant and economist, who between 2005 and 2011 (under three Prime Ministers) served as the Cabinet Secretary, the highest official in the British Civil Service. O'Donnell announced after the 2010 General Election that he would step down within that Parliament and did so at the end of 2011.〔(Sir Gus O’Donnell to leave after seeing in new Government, 10 August 2010 ). Retrieved 10 August 2010.〕〔(Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell stepping down, 11 October 2011 ). Retrieved 11 October 2011.〕 His post was then split into three positions: he was succeeded as Cabinet Secretary by Sir Jeremy Heywood, as Head of the Home Civil Service by Sir Bob Kerslake (in a part-time role), and as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office by Ian Watmore.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cabinet Secretary announces retirement )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Bob Kerslake announced as new Head of the Civil Service )〕 Whilst Cabinet Secretary, O'Donnell was regularly referred to within the Civil Service, and subsequently in the popular press, as ''GOD''; this was mainly because of his initials.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gus O'Donnell: No wonder they call him God )〕 In 2012, O'Donnell joined Frontier Economics as a Senior Advisor.〔("O'Donnell withdraws from BoE race", ''The Financial Times'', 8 October 2012 )〕 ==Background== O'Donnell was born and raised in south London.〔(Government Office for the South East Partners' Quarterly Newsletter. Issue 12 March 2006 ). Retrieved 1 October 2010.〕 Educated at Salesian College, Battersea, he read Economics at the University of Warwick before taking his MPhil degree at Nuffield College, Oxford. He gained a PhD degree from and was a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the Political Economy Department from 1975 until 1979, when he joined the Treasury as an economist. In 1985, he joined the British Embassy in Washington, serving as the First Secretary of the Economics division for four years. In 1989 O'Donnell became press secretary for the Chancellor of the Exchequer before transferring next door to serve as press secretary to the Prime Minister from 1990 to 1994. From 1997 to 1998, O'Donnell was the United Kingdom's Executive Director to both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, again in Washington, before returning to HM Treasury to serve as both Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Prospects and also Head of the Government Economics Service, with overall responsibility for the professional economists in Her Majesty's Government. A year later, in 1999, he was appointed Managing Director of Macroeconomic Policy and International Finance, with responsibility for Fiscal Policy, International Development, and European Union Economic and Monetary Union. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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