The FSA has appointed Zitah McMillan as its new communications director.

McMillan joins from the Department for Work and Pensions, the DWP, where she has been acting director of communications. Previously she was marketing director and brand director at worldwide communications agency Publicis.

She will take up her new role in January and will report to the FSA’s chief executive, Hector Sants.

Sants said: “Zitah brings to this role a wealth of communications experience ranging from working with global blue-chip companies to working within a large-scale government organisation.