Senior non-executive director

Appointed a non-executive director of Diageo plc in December 2001 and senior non-executive director and chairman of the remuneration committee in September 2004. He is a partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and is also a member of the supervisory boards of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG and The Nielsen Company, a non-executive director of Honeywell International Inc in the USA, a non-executive director of South Bank Foundation Limited, a founding trustee of the Institute of Public Policy Research and chairman of London’s South Bank Centre. He was formerly chief executive of United Business Media plc and has held a number of other non-executive directorships. Age 62. Nationality British. (Committees ▲●◆*)