Board of Directors

Committee membership

• Audit Committee (Chair to 5 March 2009)
• Business Practices Committee
• Nomination Committee (Chair)
• Remuneration Committee

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Appointed a Director in 2005 and Chairman in May 2008. Currently also chairman of Delta plc and a non-executive director of Southern Water. He is also a former chairman at both Queens' Moat Houses plc and Torex Retail plc. He was chief executive of Thorn plc and of Railtrack Group plc, having also served as group finance director at each company. His earlier career included a wide range of corporate and operational roles at Grand Metropolitan plc, Black & Decker and BOC.

Committee membership

• Nomination Committee

A chartered accountant. A Director since 1999, he became Chief Executive in January 2005, having been Chief Operating Officer since 2002 and prior to that, Finance Director. He joined Balfour Beatty in 1996 from the Hanson Group where he was finance director of ARC Ltd, one of its principal subsidiaries. He is currently a non-executive director of VT Group plc, and president of Construction Industry Relief, Assistance and Support for the Homeless Ltd, the construction and property industry charity for the homeless.

A chartered accountant and a barrister. A Director since 2002, he became Deputy Chief Executive in March 2008, prior to which he was Finance Director. He is responsible for the Group's worldwide infrastructure investment business, having previously been managing director of Balfour Beatty Capital. Prior to joining the Group in 1995, he was a partner at Coopers & Lybrand and before that, a senior assistant director at Morgan Grenfell.

A chartered civil engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Appointed Chief Operating Officer on 1 January 2009. He joined Balfour Beatty in 1997, having spent 12 years with the Kier Group, and held the position of managing director of Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering from 2004 to April 2007, when he became Group managing director with responsibility for civil engineering in the UK and the Group's interests in the Middle East. He is a board member of the Major Projects Association and he became a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Engineers in 2006.

A chartered accountant and an engineering graduate. Appointed to the Board as Finance Director in March 2008. Joined Balfour Beatty in 2006 as deputy finance director from Exel plc, where he was director of investor relations and financial strategy, following a number of senior financial roles in the UK and US.

Joined the Group in 1981 and became Planning and Development Director in 1991 after a series of senior positions in the finance function. He is responsible for the Group's merger, acquisition and divestment activities as well as the development of Group strategy. Previously, he worked at the London Business School and UMIST. He is a member of the leadership governance and management committee of the Higher Education Funding Council and a former governor of the University of North London.

Committee membership

• Audit Committee
• Business Practices Committee
• Nomination Committee

Appointed a Director in 2006. A mechanical engineering graduate, he was most recently chief operating officer of Marconi plc from 2001 to 2005. Prior to that, he was chief executive officer of Marconi Systems and was previously responsible for managing major divisions of British Aerospace, Vickers and the Rover Group.

Committee membership

• Business Practices Committee (Chair)
• Nomination Committee
• Remuneration Committee

Appointed a Director in 2006. He is a lawyer by background and was most recently group chief executive of Novar plc. Prior to that, he was chief executive of Cookson Group plc. He is also a nonexecutive director of SEGRO plc and is chief executive of Business in the Community.

Committee membership

• Audit Committee
• Business Practices Committee
• Remuneration Committee

Appointed a Director in September 2008. Until 2008, he was chief executive officer of KION Group GmbH, a leading international material handling equipment manufacturer. Prior to that, he spent seven years on the main board of Linde AG, the worldwide producer and supplier of industrial and medical gases. He was previously a member of the European management board of Whirlpool Europe and was also chairman of its German operating company, and has previously held non-executive directorships in the UK for Wassall plc and Thorn Lighting Group. He is currently chairman of the supervisory boards of Eckelmann AG and Bauknecht Hausgeraete GmbH.

Committee membership

• Audit Committee (Chair from 5 March 2009)
• Business Practices Committee

A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Appointed a Director on 1 January 2009. He is finance director of The British Land Company PLC, one of the UK's largest quoted property companies. Prior to joining British Land in 2002, he spent eight years at Andersen, latterly as a partner specialising in the real estate and government services sectors.

Committee membership

• Audit Committee
• Nomination Committee
• Remuneration Committee

Appointed a Director in 2003. A chemical engineer, he is a non-executive director of BlackRock World Mining Trust plc. Between 1970 and 2001 he held a series of increasingly senior positions in Rio Tinto plc, latterly as executive director responsible for its industrial minerals and diamonds businesses.

Committee membership

• Audit Committee
• Nomination Committee
• Remuneration Committee (Chair)

Appointed a Director in 2001. A chemical engineer, he was previously with the Royal Dutch Shell Group, latterly as chairman of the Global Corporate Centre of the Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies. He is a non-executive director of Associated British Ports Holdings Limited and Johnson Matthey plc, and chairman of the supervisory board of Allianz Nederland Groep NV. He is the senior independent Director.