Paul Myners

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Paul Myners (b. April 1, 1948) is a London businessman, Chair of the Guardian Media Group, publisher of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, and Land Securities Group, Europe's second largest quoted real estate group. He is a former Chairman of Marks and Spencer and Deputy Chair of PowerGen. He also holds a number of other posts, including Chair of the Tate and Chair of the The Low Pay Commission.

Myners has compiled influential reports on institutional investment[1], pension funds and governance for HM Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry. Paul 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 is also an independent director of the GIC (the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore).

On 1st August 2007, Paul Myners became Chair of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority, the body tasked with implementing the UK Government's plans for a new national pensions savings scheme, to be called Personal Accounts

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

Myners is a graduate of the University of London, has an Honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Exeter and is a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College Oxford. 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. He has five children, four daughters and a son.