Lord Blackwell

Joined the Board in June 2012

Chairman of Scottish Widows Group. Member of the Audit Committee, the Risk Committee and the Nomination & Governance Committee.

Lord Blackwell has extensive insurance, banking, regulatory and public policy experience gained from senior positions in a wide range of industries. Lord Blackwell’s deep financial services knowledge and experience, leadership qualities and credibility with key stakeholders, made him the unanimous choice of the Board to succeed Sir Winfried as Chairman of Lloyds Banking Group.

Lord Blackwell has an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D in Finance and Economics and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Lord Blackwell is the Chairman of Interserve plc. He is a Non-Executive Director of Ofcom (until the end of March 2014) and Halma plc.

Lord Blackwell is a former Senior Independent Director of Standard Life and chaired their UK Life and Pensions Board. He was a Non-Executive Director of Dixons Group and SEGRO, a member of the Board of the Centre for Policy Studies and a Non-Executive Member of the Office of Fair Trading. He was a partner of McKinsey & Co. and a Director of Group Development at NatWest Group. From 1995 to 1997, Lord Blackwell was Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit and was appointed a Life Peer in 1997.

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