Overview

Gender

female

Appointed to the Board in September 2007

Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, Member of Nominations and Governance Committee, Safety and Ethics Committee

Dame Helen was Chief Executive of the Economist Group until 2008, having joined the company in 1985 and was managing director of the Economist Intelligence Unit from 1993 to 1997. She was President of the CBI until June 2011; she has also been Chairman of Incisive Media, a non-executive director of Northern Foods plc, BT Group plc and Centrica plc. She was awarded a DBE in 2011 for services to business.

Dame Helen is Chairman of UBM plc. She is also a non-executive director of Huawei Technologies (UK) Co. Limited, senior adviser to Bain Capital and is a member of EDF's UK Advisory Board. Dame Helen is Chancellor of the University of Southampton and was appointed to the Public Interest Body of PwC with effect from 1 March 2016. She is also involved with a number of other not-for-profit organisations in media, the arts and education.