Marcial Boo has been chief executive of UKPHR since March 2021. Previously he was chief executive of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, IPSA, for over six years, regulating MPs’ pay, pensions and expenses. Before that he was a director at the National Audit Office and Audit Commission, and a senior civil servant at the Home Office and Department for Education. He was an advisory to the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit, and is currently on the board of the forthcoming UK Institute of Regulation. He also advises the charity African Caribbean Education Network, and sits on the Public Policy Board of the University of Bath. He has published The Public Sector Fox, a management book for those working in the public sector.