Michael Bett

Michael Bett
Born	1935
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)	Business executive, personnel manager and public servant

Sir Michael Bett,CBE(born 1935) is a retired English business executive, personnel manager and public servant.

Educated atPembroke College, Cambridge,Bett became director of industrial relations at theEngineering Employers' Federationin 1970; he was subsequently personnel director atGeneral Electric(1972–77) and theBBC(1977–81), before moving toBritish Telecom(BT) where he held a series of management roles before becoming managing director BTUK in 1988 and then deputy chairman in 1991 (stepping down to be a non-executive director in 1994); he was also chairman of the telecommunications companyCellnet(1991–99),a joint venture between BT and the security firmSecuricor.

Bett was appointed chairman of theNurses Pay Review Body(1990), theSocial Security Advisory Committee(1993) and theArmed Forces Independent Review of Manpower(1994). He left those posts in 1995, the year he was appointedFirst Civil Service Commissioner;he remained in office until 2000. Alongside a number of other directorships, he was also chairman of the Inspectorate of the Security Industry from 1994 to 2007 (theNational Security Inspectoratefrom 2000), a higher education pay review in the late 1990s, and thePensions Protection and Investment Accreditation Boardfrom 2000 to 2006.Having beenPro-ChancellorofAston Universitysince 1993, he served asChancellorfrom 2004 to 2011.Bett was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 New Year Honours,and was knighted in the 1995 Birthday Honours for "services to training and personnel management".