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Sir John Parker

Businessman from the United Kingdom, born 1942

Sir Thomas John Parker (born 8 April 1942) is a British businessman. He is chairman of Laing O'Rourke and former chairman of Pennon Group, a director of Carnival Corporation & plc and lead non-executive director at the Cabinet Office.2

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Born Apr 8, 1942.1

About

He has been a director or chairman of numerous other public companies including Airbus, Anglo American plc, Babcock International, British Gas, DP World, Lattice Group, National Grid plc and Ombu Group. He is a past president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, patron at the Centre for Process Innovation and a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedQueen's University Belfast3

Parker was born into a farming family in County Down, Northern Ireland. He attended Belfast College of Technology (since 1991 called Belfast Metropolitan College). In 1958, at age 17, he joined Harland and Wolff as an apprentice naval architect (engineer). At Queen's University Belfast he was awarded an Honorary DSc degree in Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture.

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Career

Occupation: engineer, entrepreneur, supervisory board.7

1958–1963 Apprenticeship at Harland & Wolff

1963–1974 Member of ship design team at Harland & Wolff

1974–1978 Managing Director of Austin & Pickersgill

1978–1983 Deputy Chief Executive of board of the British Shipbuilders Corporation

1983–1993 Chairman and Chief Executive of Harland and Wolff

1983–1986 Non-Executive Director of Industrial Development Board of Northern Ireland

1983–1986 Non-Executive Director of British Coal Corporation

1993–2002 Non-Executive Director of The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity

1993–2000 Chief Executive of Babcock International

1994–2000 Chairman and Chief Executive of Babcock International

1997–2000 Non-Executive Director of British Gas

1999–2003 Chairman of Firth Rixson Limited

2000–2003 Non-executive director and subsequently deputy chairman of P&O Princess Cruises

2000–2002 Chairman of Lattice Group

2000–present Director of Carnival plc

2001–2003 Non-Executive Director of Brambles

2002–2005 Chairman of RMC Group

2002–2011 Chairman of National Grid plc

2003–present Non-Executive Director of Carnival Corporation

2005–2006 Chairman of P&O

2006–2011 Chancellor of the University of Southampton

2007–2015 Director and vice-chairman of DP World

2007–2018 Non-executive director of Airbus Group

2008 Non-executive chairman of BVT Surface Fleet

2009–2017 Chairman of Anglo American plc

2011–2018 Non-executive chairman of Ombu Group

2011–2014 President of the Royal Academy of Engineering

2011–2014 Member of the Prime Minister's Committee of Science & Technology

2015–2020 chairman of Pennon Group

2017–present chairman of Laing O'Rourke

2017–present lead non-executive director at the Cabinet Office

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Personal life

  • BornApr 8, 1942, Ireland8
  • CitizenshipUnited Kingdom9

Parker married Emma, a former Latin teacher and pianist, in 1967; they have two children. Parker is a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

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Awards

  • Date not recordedFellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering10
  • Date not recordedKnight Bachelor10
  • Date not recordedKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire10

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