Dame Helen Alexander

Dame Helen Alexander was appointed to the Board in September 2007, and is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

Dame Helen is chairman of UBM plc, the Port of London Authority (PLA) and Incisive Media. She is also deputy chairman of esure Group Holdings and senior adviser to Bain Capital. Helen is deputy president of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) having been president until June 2011.

Helen is Chancellor of the University of Southampton and is currently involved with other not-for-profit organisations in media, the internet, the arts and education, through the trustees at Thomson-Reuters, the WorldWide Web Foundation, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Said Business School in Oxford and St Paul’s Girls’ School. 

Dame Helen was Chief Executive of the Economist Group till 2008, having joined the company in 1985 and been managing director of the Economist Intelligence Unit from 1993 to 1997.