Ian Livingston

Ian Livingston, Lord Livingston of Parkhead was appointed minister of state for trade and investment in December 2013 and leads on foreign commonwealth and office relations with British business. He is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

History

Livingston was CEO of BT Group from 2008 until 2013. Having joined BT in 2002, he served on the BT Group Board as Group Finance Director and CEO BT Retail, its consumer and small business division.

Before this, Livingston was group finance director at Dixons Group plc from the age of 32 making him the youngest FTSE 100 CFO. He also worked for 3i plc, Bank of America and Arthur Andersen. He was previously a non executive director of Hilton Group plc and is currently a non executive director on the board of Celtic plc.