Education
He also studied for a semester at Harvard Business School.
He also studied for a semester at Harvard Business School.
Heywood joined Her Majesty Treasury in 1992 and became the Principal Private Secretary to Chancellor Norman Lamont at the age of 30, having to help mitigate the fallout from Black Wednesday after less than a month in the job. Heywood remained in this role throughout the 1990s under Chancellors Kenneth Clarke and Gordon Brown before being promoted to be the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1999. He stayed in this position until 2003, when he left the civil service in the wake of the Hutton Inquiry where it emerged that Heywood claimed to have never minuted meetings in the Prime Ministerial offices about David Kelly, a job he was required to do.
He emerged to become the managing director of the United Kingdom Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley where he became embroiled in the Southern Cross Healthcare scandal that almost saw 30,000 elderly people being made homeless.
Upon Gordon Brown becoming Prime Minister in 2007, Heywood returned to government as Head of Domestic Policy and Strategy at the Cabinet Office. Political commentator Peter Oborne, in the wake of this appointment described Heywood as "a perfect manifestation of everything that has gone so very wrong with the British civil service over the past 15 years." Cabinet Secretary On 11 October 2011 it was announced that Heywood would replace Sir Gus O"Donnell as the Cabinet Secretary, the highest-ranked official in Her Majesty"s Civil Service, upon the latter"s retirement in January 2012.
lieutenant was also announced that Heywood would not concurrently hold the roles of Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office, as would usually be the case. These positions instead went to Sir Bob Kerslake and Ian Watmore respectively.
On 1 January 2012, Heywood was knighted and officially made Cabinet Secretary.
In July 2014 it was announced that Kerslake would step down and Heywood would take the title of Head of the HCS. As of September 2015, Keywood was paid a salary of between £195,000 and £199,999, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time. Jeremy Heywood (1961–1999) Jeremy Heywood Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1999–2008) Jeremy Heywood Central Bank, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (2008–2012) Sir Jeremy Heywood Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (2012–present).