Paul Myners

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Paul Myners is a London businessman, Chairman of the Guardian Media Group, publisher of the Guardian and the Observer newspapers, and Land Securities Group, Europe's largest quoted real estate group, and former Chairman of Marks and Spencer. He also holds a number of other important posts, including Chair of the Tate Gallery and The Low Pay Commission. He has compiled influential reports on institutional investment, pension funds and governance for H.M. Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry. He is a respected authority on corporate governance. He was voted public company non-executive director of the year by readers of the Sunday Times in 2006. He is a member of the Court of the Bank of England (director) and a Trustee of Glyndebourne and The Smith Institute, a public policy research and discussion group.

He was raised in Cornwall and still has many affinities with the county.

He is a graduate of the University of London and has an Honourary Doctorate in Law from the University of Exeter. He was awarded a CBE in 2001.

Myners is married to Alison, who is chair of the Contemporary Art Society and a Trustee of The Royal Academy Trust, and he has five children.