Sir John Rose (born 9 October 1952)[1] is a British businessman who was the Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce plc from 1996 through 2011.

Contents

1 Background and education

2 Career with Rolls-Royce

3 Later career

4 Honours

5 References

6 External links

Background and education

Born in Blantyre, Malawi,[2] Rose was educated at Culford School and Charterhouse. He earned his MA degree in psychology from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 1975. Before joining Rolls-Royce, he had a career in banking with the First National Bank of Chicago and Security Pacific.[3]

Career with Rolls-Royce

Rose joined the company in 1984 and held a number of roles. He served as Director of Corporate Development from 1989 to 1994, and in February 1993 assumed the role of President and Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce Inc, responsible for Rolls-Royce activities in North America. On 1 January 1995 he became Managing Director of the Aerospace Group until he finally became the Chief Executive of the company on 1 May 1996[4] after serving on its Board of directors for four years. On 30 September 2010 he announced his decision to retire from Rolls-Royce and his position of Chief Executive. He left his post at the end of March 2011 with John Rishton taking over the Chief Executive position.

Later career

In September 2011, Rose became deputy chairman of the Rothschild group, and in February 2012 become a non-executive director of Holdingham Group, the parent company of strategic intelligence company Hakluyt & Company.[5]

Honours

Rose received a knighthood in the 2003 New Year's Honours List. In 2008, he was made a Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur, and was also awarded the Singapore Public Service Star.[6]

Sir John Rose is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Past-President of the European Association of Aerospace Industries (AECMA), a Past-President of the Society of British Aerospace Companies and was, until recently, on the Council of The Prince's Trust as Chairman of The Prince’s Trust. He is also a member of the JP Morgan International Council, the CBI International Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Economic Development Board of Singapore, The Englefield Advisory Board, and the European Round Table of Industrialists.

On 13 July 2010 Sir John Rose received an honorary degree from the University of Exeter in engineering.

Hakluyt & Company is a British strategic intelligence and advisory firm, and since 2011 has been a trading name of the renamed company Holdingham Group Limited.[1] Pelorus Research is another trading activity of Holdingham Group, started in 2011, providing research to investment managers.[2] The company is headquartered in London and has subsidiary offices in New York, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney.[3]

Hakluyt avoids publicity, but is regarded as having a reputation for discretion and effectiveness among its client base.[4] Hakluyt was founded by former officials of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).[5][6] It attracted controversy in 2001 when Hakluyt was alleged in the Sunday Times to have employed staff to infiltrate environmental groups when working for BP and Royal Dutch Shell.[7]

Holdingham Group is chaired by Paul Deighton, and the other members of the board include managing director Paul Schreier, Robert Webb QC and Matthew Williams.[8]

The Hakluyt International Advisory Board

Hakluyt's international advisory board comprises senior figures with backgrounds in business and government. It is chaired by Niall FitzGerald, KBE, former CEO and chairman of Unilever, and its current members are:[9]

Professor Sir Roy Anderson — Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and former Rector, Imperial College London

M. S. Banga — Partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and former Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever

Keith Craig — Former Managing Director, Holdingham Group Limited

Amaury de Seze — Vice Chairman, Power Corporation of Canada

Sir Christopher Gent — Former Chairman, GlaxoSmithKline and former CEO, Vodafone

Dr Jurgen Grossmann — Founder and Shareholder, Georgsmarienhutte Holding GmbH

Irene Lee — Chairman, Hysan Development Co. Limited

Sir Iain Lobban — Former Director, UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Minoru (Ben) Makihara, KBE — Former President and Chairman, Mitsubishi Corporation

Trevor Manuel — Former Minister of Finance, South Africa

Akio Mimura — Chairman, Tokyo and Japan Chambers of Commerce and Industry

Lubna Olayan — CEO and Deputy Chairperson, Olayan Financing Company

Sir John Rose — Former CEO, Rolls-Royce

Andreas Sohmen-Pao — Chairman, BW Group

Ambassador Louis Susman — Former US Ambassador to the UK

Ratan Tata, GBE — Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons

Lots of bad actors involved with Hakloot it would seem

Sir Iain Robert Lobban, KCMG, CB (born 1960) is a former British civil servant. He was the Director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British signals intelligence agency, from 2008 to 2014.

Education and career

Born in Nigeria, Lobban graduated from the University of Leeds with a Bachelor of Arts in languages.[1][2] He joined GCHQ in 1983 and undertook a variety of roles before joining the GCHQ Board in 2001.[2] He was a participant of the Cabinet Office's Top Management Programme that year. He has also completed the Higher Command and Staff Course at the Ministry of Defence's staff college at Shrivenham.[3] Whilst on the Board he was responsible for moving the operations of GCHQ into its new base at The Doughnut at Benhall, Gloucestershire. Before being appointed Director, Lobban was Director-General (Operations); having taken up this post in early 2004. He became the Director of GCHQ in July 2008, succeeding Sir David Pepper.[2]

Lobban spoke of his regret over the treatment of cryptographer Alan Turing in October 2012.[4] Turing, who committed suicide after being convicted of homosexuality, was described by Lobban as a "national asset" and said that more people like Turing were needed to face contemporary information security threats.[4]

In November 2013 in the wake of the global surveillance disclosures by the former American National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, Lobban and the other heads of the British intelligence agencies, Andrew Parker of MI5, and John Sawers of MI6 appeared before the Joint Intelligence Committee.[3] During his questioning by the committee Lobban said that "I do not look at the surrounding hay" referring to the metadata collected by GCHQ.[3] Lobban said that the disclosures had been discussed by terrorist groups in the Middle East and Afghanistan.[3] The effect of Snowden's revelations would make GCHQ's task "…far, far harder in the future".[3] Snowden's extensive disclosures revealed details of GCHQ's recent activities and capabilities, including the Tempora electronic surveillance program, GCHQ's tapping of international fiber-optic communications, and the NSA's payment to GCHQ over £100 Million between 2009 and 2012.[5]

It was announced in January 2014 that Lobban would stand down as GCHQ director before the end of the year.[1] Lobban's American equivalents, the head of the National Security Agency, General Keith B. Alexander, and his deputy, John C. Inglis, also stood down from their posts in 2014.[1] He formally retired on 24 October 2014.[6]

After retiring from the government, Lobban went on to advise the Australian government before joining the advisory board of private security firm the Holdingham Group, which is now known as Hakluyt & Company.[7]

Lobban was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2006 New Year Honours for services to national security[8] and Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to national security.[9]

Lobban is a supporter of Everton F. C.

Louis B. Susman (born November 19, 1937) is an American lawyer, retired investment banker, and the former United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Nominated by President Barack Obama, he was confirmed by the Senate on July 10, 2009, and sworn in by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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1 Early life

2 Career

3 Personal life

4 References

5 External links

Early life

Louis Susman was born on November 19, 1937. He graduated from the University of Michigan and earned his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis.[2][3][4]

Career

Susman practiced law for 27 years and was a senior partner at the St. Louis-based law firm of Thompson & Mitchell, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate law.

Susman served on the Board of Directors and Management Committee for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball franchise from 1975 to 1989. He was appointed to the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy by Ronald Reagan in 1988, and served as a director of the Center for National Policy in Washington, D.C.[5]

Susman later served the managing director and vice chairman of Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking. In 2009, he retired as vice chairman of Citigroup Global Markets in Chicago.[5]

Susman served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2013. He had been a longtime and prolific fundraiser for Democratic Party candidates, including Obama and 2004 presidential nominee John Kerry.[6]

Personal life

Susman married Marjorie Sachs.[7] Their daughter, Sally Susman, is the executive vice president of corporate affairs at Pfizer

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Sir John Rose (born 9 October 1952)[1] is a British businessman who was the Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce plc from 1996 through 2011.

1 Background and education

2 Career with Rolls-Royce

3 Later career

4 Honours

5 References

6 External links

Background and education

Born in Blantyre, Malawi,[2] Rose was educated at Culford School and Charterhouse. He earned his MA degree in psychology from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 1975. Before joining Rolls-Royce, he had a career in banking with the First National Bank of Chicago and Security Pacific.[3]

Career with Rolls-Royce

Rose joined the company in 1984 and held a number of roles. He served as Director of Corporate Development from 1989 to 1994, and in February 1993 assumed the role of President and Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce Inc, responsible for Rolls-Royce activities in North America. On 1 January 1995 he became Managing Director of the Aerospace Group until he finally became the Chief Executive of the company on 1 May 1996[4] after serving on its Board of directors for four years. On 30 September 2010 he announced his decision to retire from Rolls-Royce and his position of Chief Executive. He left his post at the end of March 2011 with John Rishton taking over the Chief Executive position.

Later career

In September 2011, Rose became deputy chairman of the Rothschild group, and in February 2012 become a non-executive director of Holdingham Group, the parent company of strategic intelligence company Hakluyt & Company.[5]

Honours

Rose received a knighthood in the 2003 New Year's Honours List. In 2008, he was made a Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur, and was also awarded the Singapore Public Service Star.[6]

Sir John Rose is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Past-President of the European Association of Aerospace Industries (AECMA), a Past-President of the Society of British Aerospace Companies and was, until recently, on the Council of The Prince's Trust as Chairman of The Prince’s Trust. He is also a member of the JP Morgan International Council, the CBI International Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Economic Development Board of Singapore, The Englefield Advisory Board, and the European Round Table of Industrialists.

On 13 July 2010 Sir John Rose received an honorary degree from the University of Exeter in engineering.

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Lubna Suliman Olayan (born August 4, 1955) (Arabic: ) is a Saudi business woman. Born to Sulaiman Olayan and Maryam bint Jassim Al Abdulwahab, Olayan was listed as one of the top 100 most influential people of 2005 by Time magazine, and continued to be on the Forbes list of most powerful women till 2011 and returned to the list in 2014. In 2004, Olayan was the first woman in Saudi history to deliver an opening keynote address at a major conference in Saudi Arabia; at the Jeddah Economic Forum.[citation needed] As of 2014, she was listed as the 86th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[1]

Contents

1 Career highlights

2 Other activities

3 Personal life

4 References

4.1 Sources

Career highlights

Olayan is the chief executive officer of the Olayan Financing Company[2] (OFC), the holding entity for the Olayan Group's operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East; she also sits on the board of the group along with her brother Khaled and sisters Hayat and Hutham. It is thought that the private family has accumulated a fortune that tops $10 billion. The group was founded in 1947 by her father, the late entrepreneur Sulaiman S. Olayan, The Olayan Group is a private multinational enterprise engaged in distribution, manufacturing, services and investments. OFC operates or actively participates in more than 40 companies, often in partnership with leading multinationals. OFC is also one of the largest investors in the Saudi and regional stock markets.

In February 2005, Olayan was appointed as a non-executive director to the Board of WPP, and in December 2004, was elected to sit on the Board of the Saudi Hollandi Bank, a publicly listed company in Saudi Arabia. In September 2006 and April 2007, she joined the International Advisory Boards of Rolls-Royce and Citigroup, respectively. Olayan also served on the Board of Chelsfield plc, the UK property developer, from 1996 to 2004. She is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, and the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, which she joined in November and December 2005 respectively. In 2010, she was awarded the Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year.[3] As of 2014, she is listed as the 86th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[1]

Other activities

In terms of education and philanthropy, Olayan joined the Board of Directors of INSEAD in December 2005, and has been a member of its International Council since March 1997. In April 2007, she was elected as a member of the Board of Trustees for Cornell University. Olayan also joined the Advisory Board of Effat College, a private and non-profit girls college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in April 2006. She is also a board member at Alfanar, the first venture philanthropy organization focussing on the Arab Region founded by Tarek Ben Halim in 2004. Olayan has served on the Board of Trustees of the "Arab Thought Foundation," a think tank based in Beirut focusing on issues facing the Arab world, since January 2002. Olayan was elected to the Board of the Down Syndrome Charitable Association in June 2005, a not-for-profit organization based in Riyadh. She was also appointed to the Board of Trustees of King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST).

Akio Mimura (三村明夫 Mimura Akio, born 2 November 1940) is a prominent Japanese businessman notable for his positions at the head of Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation, and as Chairman of the Japan-Australia Business Cooperation Committee, for which the Australian government awarded him their highest civilian award for a foreigner, Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia.[1][2]

Biography

Akio Mimura was born 2 November 1940 in Gunma Prefecture and was educated at the University of Tokyo (B.A. 1963) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A. 1972). In April 1963 he joined Fuji Iron & Steel Co Ltd which became part of Nippon Steel in 1970, which in turn became part of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal in 2012. He rose through various senior management positions in the 1980s, becoming a board member in 1993 and Managing Director in 1997.[3]

Board and committee positions

Sources: [4] [5] [6]

Period Position Organisation

November 2013 - current Chairman Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry[6]

November 2013 - current Chairman Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry[5]

October 2012 - current Advisor Honorary Chairman Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation[4][5]

April 2008 - October 2012 Chairman Nippon Steel Corporation[4][5]

April 2003 - April 2008 President Nippon Steel Corporation[4][5]

April 2000 - April 2003 Executive Vice President Nippon Steel Corporation[4]

April 1997 - April 2000 Managing Director Nippon Steel Corporation[4]

June 1993 - October 2012 Director Nippon Steel Corporation[4]

? - current Vice Chairman and Director Nippon Keidanren[4]

? - ? Vice Chairman World Steel Association[4]

? - current Director Nisshin Seifun Group Inc[4]

? - current Outside Director Development Bank of Japan Inc[4]

? - current Committee Member Innovation Network Corporation of Japan[4]

June 2010 - current Outside Director Tokio Marine Holdings Inc.[4]

? - current Member, Advisory Board Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc[4]

? - current Member, Advisory Board Development Bank of Japan[4]

? - current Member, International Advisory Board Rolls Royce Holdings plc.[4]

Honours and awards

September 2012: Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia[1][2]

October 2012: Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Australian National University

Trevor Andrew Manuel (born 31 January 1956) is a South African politician who served in the government of South Africa as Minister of Finance from 1996 to 2009, during the presidencies of Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, and subsequently as Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission from 2009 to 2014 under former President Jacob Zuma.[1]

Trevor Manuel was born in Kensington (Cape Town), during the apartheid era and was classified as a Cape Coloured. His mother, Philma van Söhnen, was a garment factory worker, and his father, Abraham James Manuel, was a draughtsman.[2][3] According to Manuel's "family legend", his great-grandfather was a Portuguese immigrant; he had married an indigenous woman.[4][clarify]

Manuel grew up and was educated in the city. He matriculated from the Harold Cressy High School[5] in 1973 and studied Civil and Structural Engineering, and later, during his detention, law.

Manuel entered public life in 1981 as the General Secretary of the Cape Areas Housing Action Committee, after which he became a National Executive member of the United Democratic Front (UDF). In September 1985 Manuel was detained and then banned until 31 August 1990. However, Manuel's ban was lifted on 25 March 1986 after it was ruled that it was not in line with the provisions of the Internal Security Act. On 15 August 1986 Manuel was again detained under the emergency regulations for almost two years until July 1988. He was released from detention under severe restrictions but promptly detained again in September 1988, this time until February 1989. His release came with stringent restriction orders.

Resignation and re-appointment

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (January 28, 2009. Davos)

On 23 September 2008, Trevor Manuel resigned as Finance Minister along with a number of other cabinet members after the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki, unsettling the financial market, but it was subsequently announced that he would be willing to continue to serve under the next president. Manuel explained the resignation as a principled gesture, and he expressed surprise at the market's reaction.[10] He was retained in his post in the cabinet of Mbeki's successor, Kgalema Motlanthe, which was announced on 25 September.[11]

Public spat with Jimmy Manyi

On 2 March 2011, Manuel published an open letter to Jimmy Manyi,[12] the spokesperson for the South African government, in which he accused him of racism and compared him to Hendrik Verwoerd. This letter was precipitated by the remarks that Manyi made about a change in the labour laws he had proposed in his previous position of Director-General of Labour. These changes affect the racial quota that employers in South Africa are to apply to their work force. Previously they needed to reflect the ethnic composition of the local community; this would now be changed to the composition of the country as a whole. Such a change would have severe consequences for the Coloured community of the Western Cape as well as for the Indian community of KwaZulu-Natal. For the former only 10% of jobs would be available in regions where they form a 60% majority. Manyi claimed that there was a "surplus" of Coloureds in the West-Cape and that this 'problem' should be solved by making the members of this community spread over other provinces—a solution similar to that of relocation under apartheid.

Manuel's sharp reaction to Manyi's remarks provoked an equally sharp response from Paul Ngobeni, a prominent backer of Jacob Zuma and John Hlophe.

Sir Christopher Charles Gent HonFREng[1] (born 10 May 1948) is a British businessman, He is the former chief executive officer of Vodafone, a British multinational mobile phone company. Until 2015, he served as the non-exec chairman of GlaxoSmithKline, the world's fourth largest pharmaceutical company.

Early life

Born in 1948 in Bridgemary Hants, Gent was raised in Gosport, Hampshire.[2] He attended Tenison's School, then a grammar school in Kennington. His father, who had served in the Royal Navy, died when he was at school. He is one of four brothers (Rod, Chris, Jeremy and Pete).

Career

He first worked for the National Westminster Bank in 1971 as a management trainee, then as a computer services manager at Schroders. In 1979 he became the managing director of Baric, a company owned by ICL and Barclays.

Vodafone

Gent was widely credited with transforming Vodafone from a small subsidiary of Racal, a British electronics company, into a global giant, and who engineered Vodafone's 178 billion pound ($212 billion) historic purchase of Germany's Mannesmann in 2000. He became its managing director in January 1985 and its chief executive officer (taking over from Sir Gerald Whent) in January 1997.

In 2001, Gent was an advocate of the United Kingdom joining the euro [1]

After retiring from Vodafone in July 2003, he was awarded the honorary title of Company's President for Life on his departure as a mark of his achievement in developing the company, until his resignation from that position in March 2006. The title carried no salary, nor any advisory responsibilities, but was a symbolic link to the business that few former chief executives are allowed to retain.

He was formerly Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline, a British multinational pharmaceutical company, joining in June 2004, becoming chairman on 1 January 2005, a position he held until May 2015.

From October 2005 to October 2006 he served on the Tax Reform Commission, established by the then Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne MP.

Gent's reputation for sound executive judgement was called into question following his time as a non-exec at Lehman Brothers. Gent was one of four members of the compensation committee of the board at Lehman Brothers that authorised the payout for its failed CEO, Dick Fuld, who received $34 m in 2007 and $40.5 m in 2006.[3]

Personal life

In 2006 he was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Laws) from the University of Bath. He received a knighthood for his services to the telecoms industry in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours. He was also appointed as a HonFREng[4] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[5] in 2004.

In March 2007 Gent called for a referendum on London's hosting of the 2012 Olympics. He was quoted as saying "I cannot see that the long-term economic benefit of hosting the Games outweighs the costs and the horrific burden on the taxpayer, particularly London rate-payers. The cost for them is going to be astronomically high."[6]

Gent is an avid sports fan and enjoys golf, skiing and tennis. However, his real passion is cricket, having grown up next door to The Oval and he is well-known to travel long distances to attend matches. He famously instigated the deal with Airtouch whilst on his mobile phone at the Sydney Cricket Ground.[7] Vodafone sponsored the England cricket team for many years until 2007. He married Kate in July 1999 in Wokingham and they have two sons. He has two daughters from a former marriage. He lives in Newbury in Berkshire.

Manvinder Singh Banga (or Vindi Banga) is an Indian businessman. He is a senior partner at the private equity fund Clayton Dubilier & Rice.

Early life

Banga was born on 31 October 1954 in Simla (then in the state of Punjab), to Jaswant and Lt Gen Harbhajan Singh Banga who was a decorated General in the Indian Army.[citation needed]

Banga graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1975 and did BTech degree in Mechanical Engineering.[citation needed] He earned a master in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM-A).[1]

Career

Banga worked for Unilever for 33 years.[2] He served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Hindustan Lever Ltd..[3] In February 2005, as part of a major reorganization of Unilever's upper management, Banga was elevated to the Unilever Executive, as the global head of the Foods division.[4]

Banga is currently a non-executive director on the Boards of Glaxo Smith Kline Plc,[5] Thomson Reuters, and Marks & Spencers.[2] He served on the Prime Minister of India's Council for Trade & Industry from 2004 to 2014.[5] He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2010.[2][6]

Philanthropy

Banga is an advisor to the Karta Initiative,[7] a non profit organisation seeking to widen access to world class higher education for outstanding low income talent from developing countries.

Personal life

Banga has a wife, Kamini.[citation needed] Ajay Banga (Ajaypal Singh Banga) is his brother and is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of MasterCard.[8] Tavraj Banga is his son and a senior executive at the buy-out firm Terra Firma.

Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson FRS FMedSci[6] (born 12 April 1947) is a leading British expert on epidemiology. He has mathematically modelled the spread of diseases such as new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and AIDS. From October 2004 to September 2007 Anderson was the Ministry of Defence's, Chief Scientific Advisor in the UK. He also currently chairs the science advisory board of WHO's Neglected Tropical Diseases programme, is a member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenges In Global Health advisory board, and chairs the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) advisory board funded by the Gates Foundation. He is a non-executive director of GlaxoSmithKline.

Education and early life

Anderson was born the son of James Anderson and Betty Watson-Weatherborn.[2] He attended Duncombe School, Bengeo and Richard Hale School. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology at Imperial College London followed by a PhD in parasitology in 1971 with thesis titled A quantitative ecological study of the helminth parasites of the bream Abramis brama (L).[7][8] Most of Anderson's early career was at Imperial College, becoming Professor of Parasite Ecology in 1982. He was head of the Department of Biology from 1984 to 1993.[2] At Imperial College, he served as Director of the Wellcome Centre for Parasite Infections from 1989 to 1993.

Career and research

In 1993 Anderson moved to the University of Oxford where he was head of the Zoology department and held the Linacre Chair of Zoology at Merton College until 2000. During this time he served as Director, Wellcome Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease.

Anderson is the author of over 450 scientific articles and has sat on numerous government and international agency committees advising on public health and disease control including the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS. From 1991–2000, he was a Governor of the Wellcome Trust.

Foot and mouth

Anderson was one of the most prominent scientists who advised the UK Government on the handling of the Foot and Mouth control policy in 2001.

Chief Scientific Advisor

He was Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Ministry of Defence from October 2004 to September 2007. After that, he returned to his Chair in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London.[9]

Rector of Imperial College

Anderson succeeded Richard Sykes as the 14th Rector of Imperial College on 1 July 2008. In this role he expressed a desire to raise tuition fees[10] and privatise top UK universities within 10–20 years.[11][12][13] He tendered his resignation in November 2009 stating "I have decided to step down as rector as I want to return to my primary concern, which is my deep and abiding research interest into global health."

Ratan Naval Tata (born 28 December 1937) is an Indian industrialist, investor, philanthropist, and former chairman of Tata Sons. He was the former chairman of Tata Group, Mumbai, Maharashtra based global business conglomerate from 1991 till 2012 and again from 24 October 2016 for an interim term, and continues to head its charitable trusts.[3][4] He is the recipient of two of the highest civilian awards of India–Padma Vibhushan (2008) and Padma Bhushan (2000).[5]

He is an alumnus of the Cathedral and John Connon School, Bishop Cotton School (Shimla), Riverdale Country School, Cornell University and Harvard Business School.

With a strong belief of giving wealth back to the people, Ratan Tata had given about 60-65% of the wealth that he has created from his companies back to people in the form of education, medicine and rural development, making him one of the biggest pursuers of a number of philanthropic endeavors.

In the fall of 2010, HBS Tata related companies and charities donated $50 million for the construction of an executive center.[34]

The executive center has been named as Tata Hall, after Ratan Tata (AMP '75), the chairman of Tata Sons.[35] The total construction costs have been estimated at $100 million.[36] The Tata Hall is located in the northeast corner of the HBS campus, the facility is devoted to the Harvard Business School's mid-career Executive Education program. It is seven stories tall with about 155000 gross square feet. It houses approximately 180 bedrooms in addition to academic and multi-purpose spaces.[37]

Board memberships and affiliations

He is the interim chairman of Tata Sons. He continues to head the main two Tata trusts Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Sir Ratan Tata Trust and their allied trusts, with a combined stake of 66% in Tata Sons, Tata group's holding company.

He has served in various capacities in organizations in India and abroad. He is a member of Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry' and the 'National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council'. He is on the jury panel of Pritzker Architecture Prize[38] – considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes.

He is a director on the boards of Alcoa Inc., Mondelez International[39] and Board of Governors of the East-West Center. He is also a member of the board of trustees of University of Southern California, Harvard Business School Board of Dean's Advisors, X Prize[40] and Cornell University.

He is a member on the board of International Advisory Council at Bocconi University[41]

He is also a member of the Harvard Business School India Advisory Board (IAB) since 2006 and previously a member of the Harvard Business School Asia-Pacific Advisory Board (APAB) 2001-2006.

In February 2015, Ratan took an advisory role at Kalari Capital.[citation needed]

Recently, Ratan Tata has also invested an undisclosed amount in Nestaway in February 2016 [42]

In October 2016, Tata Sons removed Cyrus Mistry as its chairman, nearly 4 years after he took over the reins of the over $100 billion conglomerate, Ratan Tata made a comeback, taking over the company's interim boss for 4 months. A selection committee has been formed to find a successor in four months. The selection committee comprising Mr. Tata, TVS Group head Venu Srinivasan, Amit Chandra of Bain Capital, former diplomat Ronen Sen and Lord Kumar Bhattacharya. All of them, except Mr. Bhattacharya, is on the board of Tata Sons.[43]

Honours and awards

Ratan Tata received the Padma Vibhushan in 2008 and Padma Bhushan in 2000, the second and third highest civilian honours awarded by the Government of India.