Derek Andrews

About

Sir Derek Henry Andrews, KCB, CBE was an English civil servant. Educated at the London School of Economics, he joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1957 after completing National Service, and spent much of his career working on the Common Agricultural Policy. He was the ministry's Permanent Secretary from 1987 to 1993, leading it during the BSE and Salmonelli crises of the late 1980s. He was chairman of the Residuary Milk Marketing Board from 1994 to 2002.