Sir John W Baker OBE
Chairman

John Baker is currently Chairman of The Maersk Company Limited and CDC Globeleq, as well as a director of several other companies. He has had a career in both public and private sectors. An Arts Graduate from Oxford University, he spent ten years each dealing with transport policy and finance, and then with urban regeneration and social housing.

He moved into the energy sector in 1979 becoming Corporate Managing Director of the Central Electricity Generating Board. He led the management of the UK electricity privatisation and restructuring programme.

He was Chief Executive of National Power Plc from 1990 when the company was established and Chairman from the 1st April 1995 to the end of 1997. From 1995 - 1998 he was also Chairman of the World Energy Council.

Outside the business arena he is Chairman of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, and Chairman of the Senior Salaries Review Body