Grey Denham
Non-executive Council member
Biography
Grey Denham was appointed non-executive Council member in 2009. He is a qualified barrister and has spent most of his career in global manufacturing businesses. He specialised in international mergers and acquisitions and in governance and compliance. Before retirement from GKN plc in 2009, after 28 years, he was its Company Secretary and Group Director Legal and Compliance. He is currently Senior Independent Director of Charter International plc and a Director and Trustee of the charity Young Enterprise. He is a former chairman of the Primary Markets Group of the London Stock Exchange and of the CBI in the West Midlands and Oxfordshire.
Register of interests
- Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
- Non-Executive Director Ofcom / Deputy Chair Designate Ofcom (from January 2012)
- Member of BBC Trust (until 2011)
- Governor of the Wellcome Trust (until 2008)
- Member of Committee for Standards in Public Life (until 2008)
- Member of HEFCE
- Chief Executive, Independent Television Commission (until 31 December 2003)
- Director of Policy & Planning, BBC. (1993-2000)
- Member of Statistics Commission (until December 2005)
- Non-executive Director of Gcap (until August 2006)
- Previously: Chair of the Higher Education Regulatory Review Group
