Rt Hon John Redwood
Rt Hon John Redwood is a Member of Parliament and former Minister. An experienced Company Chairman, financial and business innovator and adviser to leaders of large organisations, he has chaired 5 different companies in industry, finance and services. He pioneered privatisation in the UK and around the world, helped develop debt swap and private finance, has run substantial pension funds and developed ideas in investment management. He has thought and written extensively about globalisation and is now working on business and government leadership styles and success and on the Credit Crunch. His website, www.johnredwood.com has a big following amongst those who wish to keep up to date with the world economy.
His public service career has included being Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987, Chief Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Thatcher (1983 – 1985), Government Minister (1989 – 1993) and Cabinet Minister (1993 – 1995). During this time as a Minister he privatised the PSA, wound up the National Enterprise Board, introduced a new system of local government taxation, opened the telecoms industry up to further competition, acted as the UK’s lead financial service Regulator from the DTI and acted as a salesman for the UK as a place for inward investment.
He has been a Director at NM Rothschild (1980 - 1989), a Director and Chairman at Norcos plc (1985 - 1989), Chairman of a private investment company (2000 - 2008), Chairman of Concentric plc (2004 - 2009) and Chairman of Evercore Pan Asset (2008 onwards). At Norcros he fought off a take over bid and helped the team achieve a 37% return on capital in basic industry activities and at Rothschilds he took privatisation overseas and advised seven different governments.
He has an M.A. (Oxon) from Magdalen College Oxford, a D.Phil from St Antony’s College Oxford, is a Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College and has been a Professor at Henley Business College and Middlesex University. He has published books on wider ownership, the advent of global markets, privatisation, private finance and the state of modern politics.
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