John Banham

Sir John Banham (born 22 August 1940)^[1] is a British business leader. He has been the chairman of Whitbread, a major brewer since 2000, and is also chairman of ECI Ventures and Johnson Mathey.

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He was raised in Cornwall, where his father worked as a surgeon and his mother a National Health Service (NHS) administrator, and was educated at Charterhouse School, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in Natural Sciences.^[2] He worked at the Foreign Office for two years before moving to Reed International and then McKinsey and Co.^[2]

He was the first controller of the Audit Commission from 1983 to 1987, and was then Director General of the Confederation of British Industry from 1987 to 1992.^[2][3] In 1992 he became chairman of the Local Government Commission for England that led to a large-scale local government reform in England.^[4] He was knighted in 1992.

He was chairman of Tarmac from 1994 to 1999, and the chairman of Kingfisher plc from 1995 to 2001.^[3][5] He became the chairman of Johnson Mathey in April 2006.^[6] He has also acted as chairman of West Country Television and as a non-executive director of both National Westminster Bank and National Power.^[3]

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Preceded by Terence Beckett	Director of the Confederation of British Industry 1987 - 92	Succeeded by Howard Davies

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