Bronwyn Hill

Bronwyn Hill CBE (born 1960) is a British former civil servant, who served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Hill was born in Bradford in 1960 and educated at St Anthony's School and St Joseph's College, Bradford, and at Girton College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a degree in geography.

Hill joined the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1981, where she worked on transport planning policy. When the GLC was abolished in 1986, she moved to the Inner London Education Authority and then joined the Department of Transport (later the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and then Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions) in 1988. Her appointment brought the number of female permanent secretaries to eight of the 16 government departments for the first time. She stepped down as permanent secretary in the summer of 2015.

Hill was appointed to the board of the Office for Nuclear Regulation in 2016 for a four-year term. She joined The Royal Parks Board in 2016 and was reappointed for a further four years in 2021. She joined the Governing Body of the University of Greenwich in 2017, becoming chair in 2020.