Civil servant heads northern society

May 29 2009 By nebusiness

NEW president of the Northern Society of Chartered Accountants is Mike Ranson, the head of financial control in Newcastle for the Pensions, Carers and Disability Service, an agency in the Department for Work and Pensions.

The London-born 62-year-old began his career with Stoy Hayward & Co, London, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1971. Three years later he joined Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co (now KPMG) in the capital, moving to its Newcastle office in 1978. He spent 12 years at Tyne Tees Television, where he was finance director from 1993-95 and was also finance director of Newcastle University, interim head of finance at One North East and an independent consultant before joining the DWP in 2003. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.