Michael Keegan
Michael Keegan (civil servant, PhD student) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Michael Geoffrey Keegan July 1962 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Exeter University, King's College London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Gillian Keegan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Keegan is a UK civil servant employed as Crown Representative in the Cabinet Office and is seconded to the Ministry of Defence working with military supplier BAE Systems since September 2019.[1]
On 31 August 2023, Michael Keegan reposted the following tweet from BAE Systems:
MOD contracts go to Centerprise
Keegan is a Non Executive Director for the IT supplier Centerprise International Ltd, which has won a number of Ministry of Defence contracts since September 2019 including several worth more than £1m.[4]
Mature student
In 2021 Michael Keegan became a PhD research student at the Department of War Studies, King's College London where he recently completed his MA. His research interest centres around the Naval and Political career of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes and his relationship with Winston Churchill. His research interests are:
- British Naval and Defence policy in the first half of the 20th Century
- The Dardanelles campaign and the Zeebrugge raid. Combined Operations Directorate
- The overthrow of the Appeasement policy in the 1930’s and 1940
Thesis title: A critical re-assessment of the career and contribution of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes.
Back to business
Prior to his PhD studies Michael Keegan had a 35-year career in business and held executive management positions with Fujitsu, MasterCard and NatWest Bank. He is currently Vice Chair of TechUK, a member of Corporate Advisory Board of the Prince's Trust and a Crown Representative for the Cabinet Office seconded to the MOD.[5]