Rona Alison Fairhead

Rona Fairhead was formerly chairman and CEO of the Financial Times Group Limited responsible for the strategy, management and operations of a global media and information business and Finance Director of Pearson plc with responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day running of the finance function and directly responsible for global financial reporting and control, tax and treasury. Ms Fairhead has a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. She is the chairman of HSBC North America Holdings Inc.; chairman of the BBC Trust; and by invitation from the Prime Minister a British Business Ambassador. She is also a non-executive director of PepsiCo Inc. Formerly, Ms Fairhead was executive vice president, Strategy and Group Control of Imperial Chemical Industries plc; chairman and a director of Interactive Data Corporation; a non-executive director of The Economist Newspaper Limited; and a non-executive member of the board of the UK Government’s Cabinet Office.