Moya Greene

Dame Moya Marguerite Greene (born 10 June 1954) is a Canadian businesswoman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Royal Mail from 2010 until 2018, having previously been the CEO of Canada Post.

Early life and education Moya Marguerite Greene was born on 10 June 1954, in St John's, Newfoundland, the daughter of Austin Greene, a DIY shop owner and Angela ( Cooke) Greene, of Coley's Point. and then attended Osgoode Hall Law School.

Career On graduation in 1979, she joined the Public Service of Canada in Ottawa as an immigration adjudicator, later taking positions in the Department of Labour and the Privy Council Office. Replacing the departed Adam Crozier from early July, the first non-Briton and first woman to hold the post, she oversaw the privatisation of Britain's postal service. Greene was the highest paid UK Civil Servant in 2010, with a basic salary of £498,000. Her total compensation for 2012/13 was reported by the Royal Mail as £3.7 million.

In February 2013 she was assessed as the 12th most powerful woman in Britain by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

In August 2013 she repaid £250,000 in expenses she had claimed to fund buying a house, after Business Secretary Vince Cable objected to the payment.

Greene was named as Financial Times Person of the Year in 2014. Judge Luke Johnson said "She did a fantastic job managing the unions, politicians and media and floating the business last year. It was an almost impossible task to reconcile demands from all the competing stakeholders – and sell a declining business such as post and parcel delivery to the stock market – but she pulled it off."

In September 2020, it was announced that Greene had been appointed by the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Andrew Furey, as chair of the provincial government's newly established "Economic Recovery Team".

Personal life Greene has an adult daughter from her marriage to Malcolm Rowe, which ended in divorce. She lives in Fulham, London.

Greene was appointed a Dame in the 2018 Birthday Honours Lists, and to the Order of Canada in 2019 Canadian Honours Lists.