David Hancock

Possible match — there are several people named David Hancock; this may not be the one in these credits.

English civil servant (1934–2013)

Sir David John Stowell Hancock, KCB was an English civil servant. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he entered the civil service in 1957 as an official in the Board of Trade; he moved to HM Treasury in 1959 and spent 1965–66 as a Harkness Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Harvard University. He was private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1968 to 1970, then financial and economic counsellor to the permanent representative to the European Communities until 1974. He was at the Treasury until 1982, when he was made head of the European Secretariat at the Cabinet Office. From 1983 to 1989, he was Permanent Secretary of the Department of Education and Science, overseeing the introduction of GCSEs and the drafting and implementation of the Education Reform Act 1988.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 3 films (1974–1975) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field.

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1975 Changing work : American workers in Sweden / Ford Foundation; directors, David Hancock, Bjorn Ericstam. 40 16mm Color sound
1974 Wheat Cycle American University Field Staff 17 16mm Color sound
19-- An Afghan village : Aq Kupruk, Northern Afghanistan an American Universities Field Staff presentation ; with the co-operation of Toryali Shafaq, Afghan Films and the Government of Afghanistan ; producer, Norman Milleer. 46 16mm Color sound