Melanie Dawes, Director - Large Business Service

Melanie Dawes is a career civil servant with fifteen years’ experience in the Treasury.

She has spent the last four years as the Treasury’s Europe Director, where amongst other things she has been involved in European Union (EU) tax negotiations, and during which time she led the Treasury’s contribution to last year’s UK Presidency of the European Union.

Melanie started her career as an economist and has also worked on public spending, tax and tax credit policy, monetary policy and the euro. She has been involved for many years in the voluntary sector, including recently as chair of Alcohol Recovery Project, a London charity which provides housing and other services to people with alcohol problems.

Melanie is married with a two-year old daughter and she works four days a week. She is a keen gardener, and grows a range of sub-tropical plants in her garden at home in South London. She and her husband have family in France and the United States, and spend as much spare time as possible by the sea in South-West France. Her other interests include food, cooking, history and music.