Sir Peter Walters is a Non-Executive
Director of Nomura International plc. He spent the majority
of his career with The British Petroleum Company plc, of which
he was a Managing Director for seventeen years and Chairman
for eight years until his retirement in March 1990. Sir Peter
is also a former Deputy Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline plc having
been Chairman of SmithKline Beecham plc since April 1994 and
a former Deputy Chairman of HSBC Holdings PLC. Amongst his
current activities he is President of the Police Foundation,
President of the Institute of Business Ethics and a Trustee
of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Sir Sigmund
Sternberg is a businessman who has dedicated a great part
of his life to serving the Jewish community and the cause of
dialogue and interfaith relations across the globe.
A member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and President
of the Reform Jewish community, he has served with distinction
as sole Patron of the International Council of Christians and
Jews, co-founder of the Three Faiths Forum and vice-president
of the World Congress of Faiths. His work for understanding
and reconciliation between faith communities has taken him to
every continent and has brought him recognition from eighteen
countries as well as the Vatican. He is also an active participant
in the work of Rotary International, whose cause he has furthered
with fervour and dedication.
Baroness
Howe of Idlicote was Chairman of the BOC Foundation for
the Environment from 1990 to 2003 and is currently on the Board
of the Onyx Environmental Trust. She was President of UNICEF
UK from 1993 to 2002, and Vice-Chairman of the Council of the
Open University from 2001 to 2003. She is a Governor of the
London School of Economics. She has chaired the Broadcasting
Standards Commission (1993-99), Business in the Community's
Opportunity 2000 initiative (1994-98), an Inner London Juvenile
Court (1970-90), and served as a member of the Parole Board
(1972-75). She was appointed a Member of the House of Lords
as Baroness Howe of Idlicote in 2001.
From 1992 until 1994 Lady Howe chaired the Archbishops' Cathedrals
Commission, which resulted in the publication of Heritage and
Renewal in October 1994. From 1975-1979 she served as the first
Deputy Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission. In 1990
she chaired the Hansard Society's Commission, resulting in the
publication of the report Women at the Top, and in 1992 she
co-authored Women on the Board. She was a Non-Executive Director
of United Biscuits (1988-1994), Legal & General plc (1989-1997)
and the Kingfisher Group (1986-2000).
After positions as a curate
in Islington, London and parish priest in Durham Lord Carey
of Clifton became Principal of Trinity Theological College
in Bristol before being called to be Bishop of Bath and Wells.
In 1991 he was invited to take up the post of 103rd Archbishop
of Canterbury and served 70 million Anglicans around the world
until his retirement in 2002.
In 2002 George Carey was made a life peer as 'Lord Carey of
Clifton'. Lord Carey is Presentation Fellow of King's College
London and Fellow of Christ's University College, Canterbury.
He is also the recipient of some 12 Honorary Doctorates.
Elizabeth Filkin
is the Non Executive Chairman of HBS, Non Executive Director,
Jarvis plc and Stanelco plc. She is Chairman of The Advertising
Advisory Committee and The Association for Television on Demand
and a member of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the
F.S.A. Previously she was The Parliamentary Commissioner for
Standards and a member of the Audit Commission.
Sir Alistair Graham was, until April
2007, Chairman of the Committee of Standards in Public Life.
He is currently Chair of the Independent Mobile Classification
Body and Chairman of the British Transport Police Authority.
Previous to this he was Chairman of the Police Complaints
Authority. After 20 years as a Civil Service trade union leader,
Sir Alistair was Chief Executive of the Industrial Society
(now The Work Foundation) from 1986 to 1991. He went on to
become Chief Executive of Calderdale and Kirklees Training
and Enterprise Council, before transferring to Leeds where
he pursued the equivalent role in the Leeds Training and Enterprise
Council until 2000. Between 1997 and 2000, Sir Alistair also
served as Chairman of the Parades Commission for Northern
Ireland.
Stephen Green is Group Chief Executive
of HSBC Holdings plc. Mr Green began his career with the British
Government's Ministry of Overseas Development. In 1977 he
joined McKinsey & Co Inc, management consultants, with
whom he undertook assignments in Europe, North America and
the Middle East.
He joined The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
in 1982 with responsibility for corporate planning activities,
and, in 1985, was put in charge of the development of the
bank's global treasury operations. In 1992 he became Group
Treasurer of HSBC Holdings plc, with responsibility for the
HSBC Group's treasury and capital markets businesses globally.
In January 2005 Stephen Green became Chairman of HSBC Bank
plc.
Some of his other directorships include Bank of Bermuda and
HSBC México, S.A. He is also Chairman of HSBC Private
Banking Holdings (Suisse) SA and HSBC Bank Middle East, a
member of the Supervisory Board of HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt
KGaA and is a board member of CCF SA.
In March 1998 Stephen Green was appointed to the Board of
HSBC Holdings plc as Executive Director, Investment Banking
and Markets responsible for the investment banking, private
banking and asset management activities of the Group. He assumed
additional responsibility for the Group's corporate banking
business in May 2002. His appointment as Group Chief Executive
took effect on 1 June 2003.
Dr Peter Harper
spent most of his 30 year business career at Hanson plc,
the Anglo-American conglomerate, where he became a main board
director. Whist at Hanson he was responsible for many of the
UK Divisions including the SLD Group (construction equipment),
Hanson Industrial Services Alders (retail) and Imperial Tobacco.
His non-executive directorships included Lonroh plc (now Lonmin)
for 9 years, becoming Deputy Chairman; Cictrex plc (deputy Chairman);
John Laing plc; London Clubs International; Tigerprint and Eversholt
leasing (chairman of both - management buy-out companies prior
to their trade sale). For the past two years Peter has concentrated
on charitable activities. He is Chairman of the Maurice and
Hilda Laing Charitable Trust, Finance Director of WORKAID and
Trustees if SAT-7 (UK) Ltd.
Sir Paul Judge is
Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts, of Teachers' TV, of St
Dunstan's College and of the Businessdynamics Trust, President
of the Chartered Management Institute and of the Association
of MBAs, Master of the Worshipful Company of Marketors, and
Deputy Chairman of the American Management Association. He is
the key benefactor of the Judge Institute of Management at the
University of Cambridge and an Independent Director of Standard
Bank of South Africa, of Tempur-Pedic of Kentucky and of Schroder
Income Growth Fund plc.
He was an Open Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge and a Thouron
Fellow at the Wharton Business School. He spent thirteen years
with Cadbury Schweppes and then led the £97 million buyout
of their food companies to form Premier Brands Ltd. He was subsequently
Chairman of Food from Britain, Director General of the Conservative
Party, and a Ministerial Adviser at the Cabinet Office.
George W Mallinckrodt
KBE has been a Director of Schroders since 1977, having
joined Schroders in 1954. He was Chairman of Schroders plc between
1984 and 1995. He was a Director of Siemens plc between 1989
and 1998 and until recently an adviser to Bain and Company and
Chairman of the Council of the World Economic Forum. He was
a Director of British Invisibles from 1995-98 and Foreign &
Colonial Investment Trust 1992-98. He was also a Director of
Allianz of America Inc in New York also an Adviser to McGraw
Hill 1986-89. He was also a Director of the National Mutual
Life Association of Australasia from 1987 to 1990.
He is Vice President of the German-British Chamber of Industry
& Commerce and President of the German YMCA. He is Trustee
of Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs, and Christian
Trustee of the Committee of The Interfaith Foundation. He is
a Member of the Advisory Committee on Finance at St George's
College, Windsor, the Institute of Business Ethics, the Lambeth
Partnership, the British-North American Committee and the British
Museum Development Trust Council. He is also Member of the Chancellor's
Court of Benefactors, Oxford University, St. Antony's College
Advisory Board, and has an Hon Doctorate of Civil Law Bishop's
University, Quebec 1994.
In recognition of his contribution towards the enhancement of
Anglo-German relations, the German President awarded him the
Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
in 1986 and the Officer's Cross of the same Order in 1990. He
was awarded the Commander's Cross of the same Order in 2001.
Her Majesty the Queen appointed him an honorary Knight Commander
of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1997.
Tim Melville-Ross CBE
is Chairman of DTZ Holdings plc, Investors in People UK, Bank
Insinger de Beaufort NV and Manganese Bronze Holdings plc,
the manufacturer of the London Taxi. He is also Deputy Chairman
of Royal London Mutual Insurance Society, and a Director of
Bovis Homes Group plc, Equity Trust SARL and Katalyst Ltd.
He is Chairman of the Council of the University of Essex.
He was the Director General of The Institute of Directors
from 1994 to 1999 and, before that, the Chief Executive of
Nationwide Building Society.
Until the end of 2003, Kate
Nealon was Group Head of Legal and Compliance for Standard
Chartered Plc. She joined Standard Chartered in 1992. Kate
is a US qualified lawyer who prior to joining Standard Chartered
practised international banking law in New York for many years,
most recently as a partner at the California based firm of
Morrison and Foerster. She has spoken and written extensively
on Corporate Governance and Business Ethics. Kate was appointed
a Non-executive Director of HBOS plc with effect from 23 March
2004. She is also a non-executive director of Cable &
Wireless plc.
David Pritchard became Group
Executive Director, Wholesale Markets and International Banking
and also Group Treasurer of Lloyds TSB on 1 May 1998. After
graduating in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1966, he spent
five years in the aircraft industry before specialising in
big-ticket leasing in two merchant banks. In 1978, he joined
Citicorp Investment Bank, where he was responsible for the
original development of the currency and interest rate swap
markets and subsequently became Managing Director. He joined
TSB Group as Treasurer in 1995 and was seconded for a two
year term to the Securities and Investments Board in 1996,
following TSB's merger with Lloyds Bank.
James Ross recently retired
as Deputy Chairman of National Grid Transco. He had a thirty
year career with BP, his last appointment being a Managing
Director of BP, and Chairman and Chief Executive of BP America.
He was subsequently Chief Executive of Cable and Wireless,
and Chairman of National Grid and Littlewoods. James Ross
is Chair of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
and a Director of Prudential, McGraw Hill and Datacard in
the USA and of Schneider Electric in France.
Sir Robert Worcester is the
Founder of MORI (Market & Opinion Research International),
London, and now an International Director of Ipsos Group,
Paris, and Chairman of the Ipsos Public Affairs Research Advisory
Board. He is a Past President of the World Association for
Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). In 2005 he was appointed
by Her Majesty the Queen a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of the "outstanding
services rendered to political, social and economic research
and for contribution to government policy and programmes".
Sir Robert is Chancellor of the University of Kent and a
Member of Council. He is Visiting Professor of Government
and a Governor of the London School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE). He is Honorary Professor in the Department
of Politics and International Relations at the University
of Kent and in the Department of Politics and International
Studies at Warwick University. He has previously been a Visiting
Professor in the Graduate Centre for Journalism at City University,
London, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Marketing
at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
He holds a number of honorary degrees and fellowships: Kings
College, University of London, Honorary Fellow (2007); London
School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Honorary
Fellow (2006); University of Kansas, Distinguished Graduate
(2006); University of Kent, Doctor of Civil Law (2006); University
of Greenwich, Doctor of Law (2003); Middlesex University,
Doctor of the University (2001); University of Bradford, Doctor
of Letters (2001); University of Buckingham, Doctor of Science
(1998). He is Chairman of the Pilgrims Society, a Governor
of the English-Speaking Union, and a Trustee of the Magna
Carta Trust. He is a Freeman of the City of London, a Governor
of the Ditchley Foundation, and was a Member of the Fulbright
Commission. He is a Vice President of Royal Society for Nature
Conservation/Wildlife Trusts, of the United Nations Association
and of the European Atlantic Group. Sir Robert is a Trustee
of WWT (Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust) and a former Trustee
of WWF. He is on Advisory Boards of the Institute of Business
Ethics (IBE), Media Standards Trust (MST) and the Camelot
Advisory Panel for Corporate Responsibility. He is currently
Co-Chairman of the Jamestown 2007 Commemoration British Committee
celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the founding of the first
permanent English-speaking settlement in the New World in
1607.
Sir Robert is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Kent and
a Kent County Council appointed Kent Ambassador. He is a Non-Executive
Director of Kent Messenger Group, was Chairman of Maidstone
Radio Ltd (2006-7), a Trustee of the Kent Foundation, and
was a Non-Executive Director of the Medway Maritime Hospital
NHS Trust.
He writes monthly columns for Profile, the monthly magazine
for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and Parliamentary
Monitor, the monthly magazine for the Houses of Parliament
and is a contributor to the Financial Times and Observer and
other newspapers and magazines and to radio and television,
including as elections night analyst for American and British
elections. He is author/co-author, co editor and editor of
more than a dozen books and many articles in newspapers, magazines
and in professional journals. His latest book, with Drs Roger
Mortimore and Paul Baines, is 'Explaining Labour's Landslip'
(Politico's, 2005). His clubs are the Reform Club and the
Beefsteak (London) and The Brook (New York). He is married,
with two sons.
