John Kingman (businessman)

Sir John Oliver Frank Kingman KCB FRS FMedSci (born 24 April 1969) has been Chair of Legal & General PLC since 2016. He is also Chair of Barclays UK, the ring-fenced retail bank of Barclays PLC, and a member of the Barclays PLC board.

He has been Deputy Chair of the National Gallery since 2018 (and twice served as acting Chair).

He is a former Second Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury.

From 2016-21, he was the first Chair of UK Research and Innovation, which oversees Government science and innovation funding of about £8bn a year. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

In 2018, he undertook a highly critical review of the Financial Reporting Council, recommending wholesale reform of the FRC and ending self-regulation of the major audit firms.

He is a member of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Advisory Council.

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