David Potter (Psion)

Dr David Potter is the Chairman of Psion plc and a Director of Symbian and Finsbury Investments Ltd. He gave £90,000 to the Labour Party in 2001 and was one of a group of 58 business leaders who wrote to the Times in May 2001 in support of the Labour Party's election campaign. His personal wealth is estimated at £245 million. He was a member of the London Council of the CBI from 1992-99 and is a member of the board of the Higher Education Funding Council (Source). He is a member of Lord Sainsbury's Council for Science and Technology.

He was a member of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education in 1996/97 (The Dearing Committee) and continued his involvement in higher education policy as a Board Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He has served as a member of The Council for Science and Technology. He is a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, an Honorary Fellow of Imperial College and an Honorary Fellow and Governor of The London Business School. In 1993 he received the Mountbatten Medal from the Institute of Electrical Engineers and has received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from a number of universities including Warwick, Sheffield, Edinburgh and York. He has written and lectured widely on technology and the new economy, including the Stockton Lecture at LBS in 1998, one of the Millenium Lectures at 10 Downing Street in 1999, and the Tacitus Lecture, 2000 at the Guildhall. In June 2003, David was appointed a non-Executive Director to the Bank of England.Source

Affiliations

• Bank of England a Non-executive Director Source
• Board of the Higher Education Policy Institute