Joined British Energy as chairman in November 2002. He is currently chairman of Friends Provident plc, Michael Page International plc, Infrastructure Investors Limited and a director of London First, Skanska AB, CellMark AB, and F&C Asset Management plc and a trustee of the Historic Royal Palaces. Before joining British Energy he undertook a number of senior roles in the implementation of the Government’s private finance policies. He was awarded a CBE in 2001 and was knighted in December 2005.
Accepted the position of chief executive in March 2005 and was formally appointed on 14 April 2005 having served as an independent non-executive director since June 2003. During his 37 year career with Duke Power he held a variety of management and executive roles, culminating in group president between 1997 and 2003. He is a non-executive director of Peabody Energy Corp., ER Jahna Enterprises and WANO. He is chairman of the Generation Board and the Finance and Policy Committee.
Appointed as an independent non-executive director in June 2003. He holds a Doctorate in Nuclear Physics and presently holds directorships at Alstom SA, Rhodia SA, Technip SA, Valeo SA, and is an associate director and senior advisor for energy and high technology at A. T. Kearney. He was, until 2003, chairman and chief executive officer of the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, a member of the Electricité de France Board of directors and the non-executive chairman of the Supervisory Board of Areva, the international nuclear engineering group. He is a Knight of the Legion of Honour and an Officer of the Order of Merit. He is chairman of the Technical Performance Oversight Committee.
 Bob Davies
Non-executive director
Appointed as an independent non-executive director in May 2006. He was chairman of Biffa Plc until April 2008. He was previously chief executive of Arriva plc, the UK transport services group, from 1998 until April 2006, prior to which he was chief executive of East Midlands Electricity plc. He holds an LLB in Law and Economics from the University of Edinburgh and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He is a director of Barratt Developments plc and Northern Business Forum Limited. In addition he chairs the CBI Council, North East Region and the Board of Governors of the University of Sunderland. He is chairman of the Remuneration Committee.
Appointed as an independent non-executive director in 2004. He holds an MBA in Finance from Fairleigh-Dickinson University School of Graduate Study. He has held a variety of senior roles in US business. Most recently, from 2003 until March 2005, he was executive vice-president and chief financial officer of the REL Consultancy Group. Prior to that, from 1998 to 2002 he was executive vice-president, finance and administration and chief financial officer of Coty Inc. He is a director of Tier Technologies Inc, and non-executive director and chair of the audit committees of ITC Deltacom, Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. and the Elliott Company. He is deputy chairman of the Audit Committee.
Appointed as an independent non-executive director in 2002 and became senior independent director and deputy chairman in July 2007. Prior to joining British Energy he held a variety of posts in the Finance, Retail Banking and Wholesale Banking Divisions of Abbey National and spent nine years on their Board. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Fellow and Past President of the Institute of Bankers. He is currently a director of Rentokil Initial Pension Trustee Limited, Croham Hurst School, JW Educational Limited and Remploy Limited. He is chairman of the Court of Governors of the Whitgift Foundation and a director of South London Church Fund and Southwark Diocesan Board of Finance. He is chairman of the Audit Committee.
Appointed as an independent non-executive director in September 2004. He has extensive trading and risk management experience and has held various senior management positions in trading businesses, including global head of Precious Metals Trading, global head of Commodity Derivatives Trading and marketing and global head of Futures and Options Brokerage at JP Morgan. He was e-commerce strategist for JP Morgan/Chase Investment Bank and sat on the Boards of the Commodity Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Futures Industry Association. He is chairman of the Safety, Health and Environment Committee.
Appointed as an independent non-executive director in 2003. Previously he served in the Royal Navy where his final appointment was as Controller of the Navy and member of the Navy Board as a vice admiral, starting in 1994. During his naval career he held a number of nuclear-related posts including service as the chairman of the Naval Nuclear Technical Safety Panel and director general, submarines. He was knighted in 1995. After retiring from the Navy, he was appointed as chief of defence procurement (a permanent secretary grade post in the Civil Service), occupying that position from 1996 until 2003. He is an independent director of General Dynamics Corporation, the Major Projects Association, EDO (UK) Limited and Cohort plc. He is chairman of the Governance and Nominations Committee.
Appointed as an independent non-executive director in August 2007. He held a number of senior managerial positions with Royal Dutch Shell Group from 1971 until 2001, including chairman of the Global Corporate Centre, where he was responsible for worldwide strategic planning, external and environmental affairs. He holds a Masters Degree in chemical engineering from Delft University in the Netherlands. He is also a non-executive director of Johnson Matthey plc, Balfour Beatty plc and Associated British Ports Holdings Limited and is the non-executive chairman of the Supervisory Board of Allianz Nederland Groep NV. He is chairman of the Commercial Risk Committee.
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