Urban Regeneration and Community Development Group - Deputy Secretary

Jenny Pyper is a BSc Honours graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast and a career civil servant who joined the NICS in 1985. Over the past 25 years she has had responsibility for a number of economic development policy and operational areas including skills and training, local enterprise, and innovation. She was a Private Secretary to Economy Ministers Peter Viggers and Richard Needham and to a former Head of the NI Civil Service, Sir David Fell.

Jenny was appointed to the Senior Civil Service in 2004 as Director of Energy Policy in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment where she managed policy and legislative responsibilities in relation to the electricity, gas and renewable energyindustries in Northern Ireland.  She moved to take up the post of Director of Regional Planning and Transportation in the Department for Regional Development in 2010, where her role included responsibility for both a revised Regional Development Strategy and Regional Transportation Strategy for Northern Ireland.  

Jenny was promoted to Deputy Secretary in the Department for Social Development in July 2011. The overall objective of the Urban Regeneration and Community Development Group which she heads is “bringing divided communities together by creating urban centres which are sustainable, welcoming and accessible to live, work and relax in peace.”

 

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