Roger Carr
Sir Roger Carr is chairman of BAE Systems plc.
Career
Carr has previously held senior appointments as chairman of Centrica plc (2004-2013), Cadbury plc, Chubb plc, Mitchells & Butlers plc and Thames Water plc; deputy chairman and senior independent director of the Court of the Bank of England; president of the Confederation of British Industry; and chief executive of Williams plc.
He was appointed chairman of BAE Systems plc on 1 February 2014.[1]
Carr was appointed vice-chair of the BBC Trust in March 2015 because he 'fits the government's keenness to introduce more trustees with business and financial backgrounds"'.[2] In response to Carr's appointment Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) launched a petition calling for him to step down suggesting 'the arms dealer’s appointment could pave the way for the broadcaster to whitewash the arms trade’s destructive impact across the globe'.[3]
Affiliations
- Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group, member
- KKR, senior advisor
- Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, senior fellow[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 BAE Roger Carr, accessed 14 April 2015.
- ↑ Harry Blain The BBC and the arms trade: a silent scandal Open Democracy, 8 April 2015, accessed 15 April 2015.
- ↑ RT BBC arms trade ties troubling, BAE boss must resign from Trust – campaigners, 1, April 2015, accessed 15 April 2015.