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Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Anthony Habgood

Years active
  
1970–present

Occupation
  
Businessman

Education
  
Gresham's School


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Full Name
  
Anthony John Habgood

Born
  
8 November 1946 (age 77) (
1946-11-08
)

Residence
  
Chelsea, London and Norfolk

Title
  
Chairman of RELX Group, Chairman of Court of the Bank of England, Chairman of Norwich Research Park, Chairman of Preqin Holding Limited

Alma mater
  
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Board member of
  
Reed Elsevier plc, Bank of England

Anthony Habgood, Chairman, Reed Elsevier plc and Whitbread plc, interview at UWE


Anthony John Habgood (born 8 November 1946) is a British businessman. He has been chief executive of Bunzl and chairman of Whitbread, RELX Group and of the Court of the Bank of England. He has been described in the FT as "the City’s go-to grandee."

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Early life

Habgood was educated at Gresham's School, Norfolk. He has a bachelor's degree from Cambridge University (Gonville and Caius College), and a master's degree in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.

Career

He joined Boston Consulting Group in 1970 and became a director in 1977.

From 1991 to 2005, Habgood was chief executive, then chairman of Bunzl, growing turnover from continuing operations from £500 million to £2.9 billion, and improving profits by a factor of 34, and "is widely credited with transforming Bunzl".

Habgood was chairman of Whitbread plc from 2005 to 2014 and of Mölnlycke Health Care from 2006 to 2007 while it was owned by the private equity house APAX Partners. He has been chairman of RELX Group (formerly Reed Elsevier), a multinational information and analytics company, operating in four market segments: scientific, technical and medical; risk and business information; legal; and exhibitions, since June 2009. He has been chairman of Preqin Holding Limited since November 2011.

Past non-executive directorships include NatWest Bank plc, Powergen plc and Marks and Spencer plc

He was senior non-executive director of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2006 until March 2013, and was chair of Norwich Research Park between March 2013 and March 2016.

In March 2014, Habgood was appointed chairman of the Court of the Bank of England,

Personal life

Habgood is married with three children, and splits his time between Chelsea and Norfolk.

References

Anthony Habgood Wikipedia