Ceri joined Motability Foundation's Board of Governors on 23 September 2025.
Ceri was Trustee of the MS Society from 2016 to 2023, and has also spent 15 years as a School governor at two inner city comprehensives.
He is currently Director General at the Office for Investment, a joint unit of No 10, HM Treasury, and the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST). Prior to this, from April 2021 he was Director General, Strategy and Investment at the Department for International Trade (DIT).
He joined the Department for International Trade after eight years at UK Government Investments where, among other things, he set up the British Business Bank, and led on the government’s shareholder interests in Channel 4, the Land Registry, Homes England and the Ordnance Survey. He was a Non-Executive Director at the British Business Bank and a Non-Executive member of the Homes England Board.
Ceri previously spent almost 20 years across a range of economic policy roles in HM Treasury and the Business Department, in Brussels with the Foreign Office and with the Government’s Small Business Service.