Anthony Stern (appointed in 2005) is a director of InterContinental Hotels UK pension trust. He was Director of Treasury for Bass and InterContinental hotels from 1988 to 2003, where he participated in financing mergers and acquisitions, a number of which involved competition investigations. Prior to this he worked for Dixons, Marks & Spencer and Chase Manhattan Bank. From 2001 to 2002 he was President of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. He has written for the Economist Intelligence Unit on aspects of financial markets.