Sir Brian Geoffrey Bender KCB (25 February 1949 – 4 November 2021) was a British civil servant, who served as the Permanent Secretary of three departments, two of which were re-organised whilst he was at their helm. Sir Brian then took over from Sir Robin Young as the head of the Department of Trade and Industry. The DTI was itself reformed into the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which he led until his mandatory retirement from the civil service aged 60 in 2009, handing over briefly to Sir Simon Fraser. He died on 4 November 2021, at the age of 72.