Terence Burns, Baron Burns

The Right Honourable
The Lord Burns
GCB

Burns in 2013
Chairman Designate of Channel Four Television Corporation
Assumed office
2010
Preceded by Luke Johnson
Chairman of Santander UK
Assumed office
Present
President of National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Assumed office
Present
Personal details
Born Terence (Terry) Burns, Baron Burns
13 March 1944
Spouse(s) Anne Elizabeth Powell (m. 1969)
Children 1 son and 2 daughters
Occupation businessman

Terence (Terry) Burns, Baron Burns, GCB (born 13 March 1944, Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham) is a British economist, made a life peer in 1998 for his services as former Chief Economic Advisor and Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury. He is currently Chairman of Santander UK, Non-Executive Chairman of Glas Cymru, and a Non-Executive Director of Pearson Group plc. He is also President of The National Institute of Economic and Social Research, President of the Society of Business Economists, Chairman of the Governing Body of the Royal Academy of Music, and Chairman of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra. On 5 November 2009 he was announced Chairman Designate of Channel Four Television Corporation, succeeding Luke Johnson, who retired on 27 January 2010 following six years in the post.[1][2]

Government

His government service began as a member of the HM Treasury Academic Panel from 1976 to 1979, then Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury and Head of the Government Economic Service from 1980 to 1991, and Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury from 1991 to 1998.

Lord Burns was a member of the Hansard Society Commission on Parliamentary Scrutiny which ran from 1999 to 2001.[3] He was a member of the Scottish Fee Support Review from 1998 to 2000, and Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales[4] in 2000. He was Chairman of the National Lottery Commission between 2000 and 2001. He was appointed Independent Adviser to the Secretary of State in 2003 for the BBC Charter Review.[5]

Business career

Lord Burns was appointed a Non-Executive Director of Pearson plc in 1999, and Senior Independent Director in 2004.[6] He was also a Non-Executive Director of Legal and General Group plc between 1999 and 2001, and of The British Land Company plc between 2000 and 2005. In July 2000 he was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Glas Cymru.[7] He was named Chairman of Abbey National plc in February 2002, and a Non-Executive Director of Banco Santander Central Hispano S.A. in December 2004.[8] He became Chairman of Marks and Spencer plc in 2006 after serving as Deputy Chairman since 2005.[9]

Professional

Lord Burns has been President of the Society of Business Economists since 1998, previously serving as Vice-President since 1985.[10] He has been President of The National Institute of Economic and Social Research since 2003, previously serving as a Governor.[11] He is also a Fellow of the London Business School, and a Vice-President of the Royal Economic Society.[12]

Other

Lord Burns chaired the Government Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales in 1999–2000, was named Chairman of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra in 2001 after serving as a Trustee since 1998 and was appointed Chairman of the Governing Body of the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 after being a Governor since 1998.

He was Non-Executive Director of Queens Park Rangers FC between 1996 and 2001. In 2004 he was appointed Chairman of the FA Structural Review by The Football Association, and delivered his Final Report on 12 August 2005.[13]

Honours

He was knighted in 1983, received the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 1995, and was made a life peer as Baron Burns, of Pitshanger in the London Borough of Ealing, on 13 June 1998.[14]

He holds honorary doctorates and professorships from five British universities.

Personal life

The son of Patrick Owen Burns, a coalminer, and Doris Burns, he was born brought up in the village of Hetton-le-Hole in County Durham and educated at the Houghton-le-Spring Grammar School and the University of Manchester, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1965. He has been married to Anne Elizabeth Powell since 1969. They have a son and two daughters.

Works

References

  1. ↑ Lord Burns confirmed as Channel 4 chairman, Mark Sweney, The Guardian, 5 November 2009
  2. ↑ Lord Burns named new C4 chairman, BBC News, 5 November 2009
  3. ↑ Lord Newton of Braintree (chair) (2001), The Challenge for Parliament: Making Government Accountable: Report of the Hansard Society Commission on parliamentary scrutiny, (London:Vacher Dod) ISBN 978-0-905702-31-5
  4. ↑ "Committee of Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales". Retrieved 25 May 2007.
  5. ↑ "BBC Charter Review – Independent Advisor". Retrieved 25 May 2007.
  6. ↑ "Pearson – Non-Executive Directors". Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  7. ↑ "Glas Cymru – Directors". Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  8. ↑ "Abbey National plc – Board Directors". Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  9. ↑ "Marks and Spencer plc – Board Member Biographies". Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  10. ↑ "Society of Business Economists – SBE Officers". Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  11. ↑ "National Institute of Economic and Social Research – Council of Management". Archived from the original on 6 February 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  12. ↑ "Royal Economic Society – RES Council". Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  13. ↑ "The FA – The FA Structural Review". Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  14. ↑ "Minutes of Proceedings". House of Lords Minutes and Order Paper. 29 July 1998. Retrieved 25 May 2007.

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January 2010 – Present 		Succeeded by
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