Board of directors
Chairman
|
Glen Moreno, † • Chairman, aged 66, was appointed chairman of Pearson on 1 October 2005 and is chairman of the nomination committee. He is a director of Fidelity International Limited and effective 1 March 2010, was appointed a non-executive director of Lloyds Banking Group plc and became their senior independent director. He was previously senior independent director of Man Group plc and acting chairman of UK Financial Investments Limited, the company set up by HM Treasury to manage the government's shareholdings in UK banks. |
| † A member of the personnel committee. • A member of the nomination committee. |
Executive directors
|
Marjorie Scardino, • chief executive, aged 63, joined the Pearson board in January 1997. She trained and practised as a lawyer, and was chief executive of The Economist Group from 1993 until joining Pearson. She is also vice chairman of Nokia Corporation and on the boards of several charitable organisations. |
|
Will Ethridge, chief executive, Pearson North American Education, aged 58, joined the Pearson board in May 2008, having held a number of senior positions within Pearson Education, including CEO of the International and Higher Education divisions. He is chairman of CourseSmart, a publishers' digital retail consortium and chairman of the Association of American Publishers. |
|
Rona Fairhead, chairman and chief executive of The Financial Times Group, aged 48, joined the Pearson board in June 2002 as chief financial officer. She was appointed chief executive of The Financial Times Group in June 2006 and became responsible for Pearson VUE in March 2008. From 1996 until 2001, she served as executive vice president, group control and strategy at ICI. She is also chairman of Interactive Data, a nonexecutive director of HSBC Holdings plc and chairs the HSBC audit committee. |
|
Robin Freestone, chief financial officer, aged 51, joined Pearson in 2004 as deputy chief financial officer and became chief financial officer in June 2006, when he also joined the Pearson board. He was previously group financial controller of Amersham plc (now part of GE). He qualified as a chartered accountant with Touche Ross (now Deloitte). He is also a non-executive director and founder shareholder of eChem Limited. |
|
John Makinson, chairman and chief executive of The Penguin Group, aged 55, joined the Pearson board in March 1996 and was finance director until June 2002. He was appointed chairman of The Penguin Group in May 2001. He is also chairman of the Institute for Public Policy Research, director of The Royal National Theatre and trustee of The International Rescue Committee (UK). |
| • A member of the nomination committee. |
Non-executive directors
|
David Arculus,*†• aged 63, is a non-executive director of Telefónica SA and was appointed chairman of Numis Corporation plc in May 2009. His previous roles include chairman of O2 plc, Severn Trent plc and IPC Group, chief operating officer of United Business Media plc and group managing director of EMAP plc. He became a non-executive director of Pearson in February 2006 and is chairman of the personnel committee. |
|
Terry Burns,†• aged 65, is chairman of Santander UK and Glas Cymru Limited and is a non-executive director of Banco Santander SA. He was recently appointed chairman of the Channel 4 Television Corporation. He was previously chairman of Marks and Spencer Group plc. He was the UK government's chief economic adviser from 1980 until 1991 and Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury from 1991 until 1998. He was appointed a non-executive director of Pearson in May 1999 and senior independent director in February 2004. |
|
Patrick Cescau,*• aged 61, is a non-executive director of Tesco plc and joined the board of directors of INSEAD, the Business School for the World, in June 2009. He was previously group chief executive of Unilever. He became a non-executive director of Pearson in April 2002. |
|
Susan Fuhrman,*• aged 65, is president of Teachers College at Columbia University, America's oldest and largest graduate school of education and president of the National Academy of Education. She was previously dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and on the board of trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She became a non-executive director of Pearson in July 2004. |
|
Ken Hydon,*†• aged 65, is a non-executive director of Reckitt Benckiser Group plc, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and Tesco plc. He was previously financial director of Vodafone Group plc and of subsidiaries of Racal Electronics. He became a non-executive director of Pearson in February 2006 and is chairman of the audit committee. |
|
CK Prahalad, • aged 68, is a distinguished university professor of corporate strategy and international business at The University of Michigan Business School. He is a non-executive director of NCR Corporation and Hindustan Unilever Corporation and director of the World Resources Institute and The Indus Entrepreneurs. He became a non-executive director of Pearson in May 2008. |
| * A member of the audit committee. † A member of the personnel committee. • A member of the nomination committee. |
