Alexandra Maye

Alexandra Maye SpG
Alexandra Maye
Director of the Sanctarian Intelligence Service
Incumbent
Assumed office 01 March 2014
President	Marion Woodstrom
Chancellor	Mark Kindle as Prime Minister Charlene Hendry
Preceded by	James Frederickson
Ombudsman of Sanctaria
In office 01 May 2005 – 28 February 2014
President	Helena Robinson Marion Woodstrom
Prime Minister	Charles Dawson Joshua Turner Mark Kindle
Preceded by	Valerie Nichols
Succeeded by	Christian Ferguson
Director-General of the Sanctarian Revenue Service
In office 01 February 2000 – 30 April 2005
Prime Minister	Glen Cox Charles Dawson
Preceded by	Stephen Burrows
Succeeded by	Robert Sanders
Personal details
Born	Alexandra Patricia Kenny (1952-12-29) December 29, 1952
Nationality	Sanctarian
Spouse(s)	Victor Maye (m. 1975)
Occupation	Civil Servant, Accountant

Alexandra Patricia Maye SpG (née Kenny, 29 December 1959) is a Sanctarian civil servant, currently serving as Director of the Sanctarian Intelligence Service (SIS), having been installed in the post in 2014. She is the first woman, and the first non-career intelligence agent, to hold the position. Prior to becoming Director of the SIS, Maye served as Ombudsman of Sanctaria for almost a decade. The majority of her career, however, was spent in the Sanctarian Revenue Service, which eventually saw her lead the government agency as Director-General from 2000 until 2005.

Early life

Maye was born Alexandra Patricia Kenny on 29 December 1959 in the town of Waverly on the Isles, in the then-Papal States of Sanctaria. Her father was a farmer and her mother worked as a housekeeper. Maye is an only child.

Maye attended a local primary school until the age of 11 when she won a scholarship to attend a catholic boarding school in Nicene, a city located on the west coast of Sanctaria. She later attended university at the Corpus School of Finance and Accounting Sciences, graduating with a BSc in Accounting in September 1981. She immediately joined the Sanctarian civil service and was posted in the Sanctarian Revenue Service, a subsidiary agency of the Department of Finance.

Sanctarian Revenue Service

Maye joined the Sanctarian Revenue Service in September 1981 as a claerical officer in the Personal Tax department. In April 1982 she was promoted to administrative officer in the same department, overseeing a team of clerical officers. She remained in the Personal Tax Department as an administrative office until 1985 when she was promoted to executive office, junior grade in the Customer Compliance department of the Revenue Service.

In January 1987, Maye was moved back to the Personal Tax department as executive officer, senior grade. She stayed in the Personal Tax Department, with regular promotions, until 1994 when she was appointed Director of the Business Tax department. In 1997, she was given the added duties of Deputy Director-General, before being appointed by the government in early 2000 as Director-General.

Director-General

As Director-General, Maye's focus was on reducing tax evasion and advising the government on legislation that cut back on legal tax avoidance loopholes. Maye's tenure also saw an increased level of cooperation with law enforcement agencies, particularly surrounding the identification, confiscation, and in many cases also the sale of goods that were acquired either through criminal acts, or through the proceeds of criminal acts.

That there was no reported scandals, major or otherwise, during Maye's tenure has led to various governments referring to Maye as "a steady pair of hands". Critics, however, have said Maye is "unimaginative". Her tenure as Director-General is generally regarded as quite successful.

Ombudsman

Praise for Maye's steady leadership at the helm of the Revenue Service lead then-Finance Secretary Audrey Bennet to nominate her to as Ombudsman in the spring of 2005. Though it meant Maye leaving the Revenue Service, Maye later wrote that she saw the call to serve as a furtherment of her duties as a civil servant. She took up the position in May 2005.

As Ombudsman, Maye took no prisoners when dealing with complaints of malpractice and maladministration in government agencies; it was calculated at the end of her tenure that she upheld almost 84% of complaints lodged with her office. She took a particular focus in highlighting many claims by immigrants to Sanctaria of the injustices they claimed they faced trying to navigate through Sanctarian bureaucracy surrounding naturalisation and migration. Maye ruled on multiple occasions that public administration's approach to the issue was often purposefully opaque and unclear.

Maye was entering the final year of her ten year term as Ombudsman when she was nominated to lead the Sanctarian Intelligence Service.

Director of the Sanctarian Intelligence Service

Maye was nominated as Director of the SIS after the organisation had been without a leader for a number of months. After much criticism of the government in parliament by opposition parties, Foreign Secretary Yasminé Pontif nominated Maye to the role primarily because she was widely seen as a safe pair of hands. There was some concern with the choice of Maye because she was non a career-intelligence agent, but she was nonetheless widely welcomed as the nominee for SIS Director.

Since her appointment to an initial five-year-term, though recent government sources have indicated she will be offered another five years, Maye has kept a quiet profile, with occasional appearances in parliament at regular reporting before Senate and House committees. As much of her role is overseeing clandestine activities, much of her duties are kept out of the public eye.

She is reported to be a primary advisor on foreign affairs and national security to the Government of Sanctaria.

Personal life

Maye has been married to Victor Maye since 1975. He is a retired army officer in the Sanctarian Defence Forces. They have no children.

In 2004, Maye was appointed to the grade of Superior-General in the Order of Sanctaria. She is entitled to use the postnominals SpG.