Peter Hill CBE
Biography
Peter is currently the Chair of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
He has wide experience in executive, non-executive and chair roles across a number of FTSE listed companies and in government as a non-executive board member of UK Trade and Investment, the Royal Air Force and an agency of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Peter began his executive career with international mining companies Anglo American, Rossing Uranium, BP Minerals and Consolidated Gold Fields. During this time, he held a variety of roles covering planning, operations, project management and corporate finance.
Peter is currently Chairman of Keller Group plc, the world’s largest geotechnical projects engineer, having been Chairman of Petra Diamonds, Alent, Imagination Technologies and Volution Group plcs. He was CEO of Laird plc from 2002 to 2011, transforming it from an industrial conglomerate to a focussed electronics and technology company. He was an Executive Director on the Board of Costain Group plc and a Non-executive Director of Cookson Group, Meggitt, Essentra and Oxford Instruments plcs and held senior executive positions with FTSE 100 engineering companies BTR plc and Invensys plc.
He holds a BSc in Engineering and an MBA from the London Business School; he is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
Chair
The Chair of the NDA is responsible for leading the organisation and making sure that it fulfills all of its goals.