{"id":62782,"date":"2015-10-13T13:16:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bb2746e88792b4fe819ac22f2a7350d7"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:16:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:16:40","slug":"news-story-paul-satoor-takes-up-leadership-of-dvsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=62782","title":{"rendered":"News story: Paul Satoor takes up leadership of DVSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>It follows the retirement of <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr>\u2019s previous Chief Executive, Alastair Peoples.<\/p>\n<p>Paul had held the position of Deputy Chief Executive since March this year, and was previously Director of Organisational Development and Strategy at <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n<p>He takes up the leadership of <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> while work is underway to recruit a permanent successor.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"putting-customers-at-the-heart-of-our-services\">Putting customers at the heart of our services<\/h2>\n<p>Paul said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m excited to be taking up the role of Interim Chief Executive at what is an important time in <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr>\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I want to continue the good work that has been done to make our organisation more efficient and effective, as well as engaging with customers and businesses to make sure that we put them at the heart of our services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"previous-roles\">Previous roles<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Satoor\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/44900\/paul-satoor.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Paul has overseen major projects, including introducing a more flexible service for heavy goods vehicle testing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his previous role as Director of Organisational Development and Strategy, Paul was responsible for developing <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr>\u2019s corporate vision and strategy. <\/p>\n<p>He also oversaw the agency\u2019s major projects, like the introduction of a more flexible service for heavy goods vehicle testing. <\/p>\n<p>Paul has a background in senior HR roles across the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Satoor has today (13 October 2015) taken up the role of Interim Chief Executive at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}