John Makinson
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John Makinson is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the publishers The Penguin Group. He is also a non-executive director of George Weston Limited in Canada.
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After completing his degree at Cambridge University, John started working as a journalist, first at Reuters and then at the Financial Times, where he edited the influential Lex column. From there he moved to Saatchi and Saatchi's US Holding Company, before co-founding Makinson Cowell, a specialist independent financial consultancy firm. After 5 years, he returned to the Financial Times to become their managing director, before accepting a job as the Pearson Group finance director, where he worked until moving to the Penguin Group - a subsidiary of the Pearson Group.
He has used his knowledge of business to help compile a report for the British government, called Incentives for Change, and received a CBE in 2001 for his services to public sector productivity. He was also photographed by Harry Borden for the National Portrait Gallery in Britain.
