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Sir Rob Margetts CBE

Non-Executive Chairman

Sir Rob was appointed as Ordnance Survey’s first Non-Executive Chair in August 2008. His role is to lead Ordnance Survey’s Strategy Board and he reports to Shareholder Executive, the body that advises Ministers and senior officials on the Government’s ‘shareholding’ in organisations such as Ordnance Survey.

Beginning his career with the ICI® Group in 1969, Sir Rob progressed through a number of appointments within the group prior to joining the Board in 1992, becoming Vice-Chairman from 1998 to 2000. From 2000 to March 2010 he was Chairman of Legal & General® Group plc and of BOC® Group plc from 2001 to 2006.

He is Chairman of the Energy Technologies Institute and Ensus Ltd, and a Non-Executive Director of Huntsman Corporation LLP. Sir Rob was Chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) from 2001 to 2006, a Non-Executive Director of Anglo American plc from 1998 to 2010 and Wellstream® plc from 2010 to 2011.

Sir Rob Margetts

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