Iain Ferguson

Biography

Iain Ferguson is the lead non-executive board member for the department, and was appointed in January 2012.

He is Chairman of Wilton Park, an agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He also holds the following posts:

• non-executive director for Balfour Beatty plc, Davis Service Group plc and Gregg’s plc
• member of the PWC (UK llp) advisory board

Iain is also a member of the Foresight Global Food and Farming project, the Better Regulation Strategy Group and the Honorary Vice-President of the British Nutrition Foundation. He was CEO of Tate & Lyle plc from May 2003 until the end of 2009, and previously worked with Unilever for 26 years.