Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Lord in Waiting
Senior positions at NatWest, Alliance Bernstein, and Sucden Financia (1991 - present).
Gregory Barker
Minister of State (Dept of Energy and Climate Change)
Anglo Siberian Oil (1998–2000) Head of International Investor Relations for Sibneft (1998) Shareholder in
New Star European Growth Fund PLC and Henderson High Income Trust PLC. Corporate Finance Director of
the Australian owned International Pacific Securities.
Vincent Cable
Secretary of State (Business, Innovation and Skills)
Chief economist and other positions at Shell International (1990-1997).
David Cameron
Prime Minister
Accepted £10,000 from Jonathan Green of hedge fund GLG Partners, Accepted £10,000 from Mark Foster
Brown of hedge fund Altima Partners (2005).
Kenneth Clarke
Minister of State
Director of Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust plc (until 2007).
Nick Clegg
Deputy Prime Minister
Accepted £9,000 from Neil Sherlock, head of public affairs at auditors KPMG (2006 -2008).
Lord Deighton
Commercial Secretary (HM Treasury)
Chief Operating Officer for Europe and other positions at Goldman Sachs (1983 – 2005).
Alan Duncan
Minister of State (Department for International Development)
Oil trader and other positions at Shell (1979-1992). Consultant for Vitol.
Philip Dunne
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Defence)
SG Warburg (1981-88) Former Managing Director of Lufkin & Jenrette a US investment bank.
Michael Fallon
Minister of State (Dept for Business, Innovation and Skills)
Director of Tullett Prebon Plc (independent non-executive); inter-dealer broking (until 2012).
Lord Freud
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Welfare Reform)
Vice-chairman and other Senior positions at S G Warburg (later known as UBS Investment Bank) (1984-2003).
Robert Goodwill
Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)
Shareholdings in Barclays, Gazprom and Lukoil. Accepted £11,000 donation from Mountboon Investments Ltd
financiers (2010).
Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint
Minister of State (Trade and Investment)
Chairman and other senior positions HSBC (1992 - 2010).
Dominic Grieve
Attorney General
Total shareholdings of more than £240,000 in Anglo American, Standard Chartered, Rio Tinto and Shell.
Michael Gove
Secretary of State for Education
Accepted £10,000 donation from Aidan Heavey, founder and chief executive of global gas and oil company
Tullow Oil (2010).
William Hague
Secretary of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)
Worked for Shell UK (1982-83). Accepted over £25,000 in non-cash donations from CQS.
Philip Hammond
Secretary of State for Defence
Director of Consort Resources Ltd later purchased by Caledonia Oil and Gas (1999-2003).
Stephen Hammond
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Dept for Transport)
Director of Commerzbank Securities (2000–Present). Has shareholdings in Peal Gas Ltd.
Matthew Hancock
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Dept for Education)
Payment of £3,000 from UBS AG for speech (2011).
Greg Hands
Assistant Government Whip
Worked for three different firms in an eight year banking career (1990 - 1997).
Mark Hoban
Minister of State (Dept for Work and Pensions)
Payment of £1,300 from JP Morgan Chase for speech (2010).
Earl Howe
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Dept of Health)
London director of Adam & Co. plc (1987 -1990).
Nick Hurd
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Represented a British bank in Brazil (1995-1999).
Sajid Javid
Economic Secretary
Directorships and other senior positions at Deutsche Bank AG, (2000-2009), JP Morgan Partners LLC
(1997-2009) and Chase Manhattan Bank (1991-1994).
Jo Johnson
Assistant Government Whip
Investment banker at Deutsche Bank (Until 1997).
Mark Lancaster
Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)
Management consultant at Palmer Capital a privately owned venture capital and fund management business.
(resigned 2012).
David Laws
Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
Vice President JP Morgan’s Treasury Division (1987-1992) Managing Director of Barclays De Zoete Wedd (1992
to 1994).
Oliver Letwin
Minister (Government Policy)
Directorships and other senior positions at investment bank NM Rothschild (1986-2009).
David Lidington
Minister of State for Europe
Worked for BP (1983-86) and Rio Tinto (1986-87).
Francis Maude
Minister (Cabinet Office)
Member of Barclays’ Asia-Pacific Advisory Committee. (2005- 2009). The Conservative Party’s Implementation Team which reported to Maude also received significant donations in kind from accountancy firms KPMG, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst and Young and Deloitte
Theresa May
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Shareholdings held by self and spouse in Prudential Corporation PLC. Accepted donation in kind from Michael
Hintze who runs the hedge fund management firm CQS Asset Management (2009).
Maria Miller
Secretary of State (Culture, Media and Sport)
Marketing manager at Texaco (1990-1994).
David Mundell
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Scotland Office)
Accepted £5,000 from Caledonia Investments PLC investment trust (2010).
John Nash
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Assistant Director Lazard Brothers and Co Ltd (1988 -1989).
George Osborne
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Leading beneficiary of donations in kind to the then shadow cabinet from audit firms KPMG (£62,500) and
Deloitte (£60,000) both of which have specialist oil and gas departments (2009).
Desmond Swayne
Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury)
Manager of Risk Management Systems at the Royal Bank of Scotland and other senior positions (1989 – 1997).
Elizabeth Truss
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Dept for Education)
Commercial manager at Shell (1996 – end date unclear).
Andrew Robathan
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Worked for BP (1991 – 1992).
Hugh Robertson
Minister of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Assistant Director and management head Schroder Investment Management (1995 – 2001).
David Willets
Minister of State (Minister for Universities and Science)
Senior advisor to Punter Southall a leading actuaries and actuarial consultants.
Tutu Agyare
Tutu Agyare is a non-executive director at Tullow Oil and a managing partner at Nubuke Investment. Also had a 21-year career with UBS Investment Bank (head of European emerging markets and member of the investment bank Board.
Sir John Bond
Sir John Bond is chairman of Xstrata. He retired as Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc in 2006, having also been its group chief executive.
Sir John Buchanan
Sir John Buchanan is director of BHP Billiton and a member of the advisory board of Ondra Bank.
David Challen
David Challen is chairman of the audit committee at Anglo American. He was chairman of the EMEA governance committee at Citigroup.
Fulvio Conti
Fulvio Conti is a non-executive director at Barclays and CEO of Italian energy company Enel SpA. He has also worked for Mobil Oil Corporation.
Carlos Cordeiro
Carlos Cordeiro is a director at BHP Billiton. He was a partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs Group and executive vice chairman of Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC.
Vivienne Cox
Vivienne Cox is a non-executive director at BG Group and lead independent director on the Ministerial Board of the Department for International Development (DFID).
David Crawford
David Crawford is a director at BHP Billiton. He was a director of the Westpac Banking Corporation.
Ian Davis
Ian Davis is a non-executive director at BP and a senior adviser to Apax Partners LLP (private equity fund).
Michael Fitzpatrick
Michael Fitzpatrick is a non-executive director at Rio Tinto. He founded the infrastructure asset management company Hastings Funds Management Ltd in 1994 following a career in investment banking in Australia and New York.
Ann Grant
Ann Grant is a non-executive director at Tullow Oil. She was British High Commissioner to South Africa (2000-2005) and was Director for Africa and the Commonwealth at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Byron Grote
Byron Grote is an executive director at BP. He was also vice chairman of the UK government's Public Services Productivity Panel (1998-2000) and a member of the UK Government's Asia Task Force (2005-2006) and the UK Business & Government Forum on Tax and Globalisation (2008-2010).
Sir Philip Hampton
Philip Hampton is the chairman of RBS and former finance director at oil and gas firm BG Group plc and British Gas. He is also non-executive director at mining company Anglo-American.
Carolyn Heweson
Carolyn Heweson is a director at BHP Billiton and a non-executive Director of BT Investment Management Limited and was a director of Westpac Banking Corporation.
Baroness Hogg
Baroness Hogg is a non-executive director at BG Group a chair of private equity firm 3i Group and a former head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit as second permanent secretary.
Dr John Hood
Dr John Hood is a non-executive director at BG Group and director of ASB Bank.
Den Jones
Den Jones is a non-executive director and interim CEO at BG Group. He previously worked in senior roles at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Citibank and Salomon Smith Barney Investment Bank.
Gerard Kleisterlee
Gerard Kleisterlee is a non-executive director at Shell and a member of the supervisory board of De Nederlandsche Bank.
Caio Koch-Weser
Caio Koch-Weser is a non-executive director at BG Group and vice chair of Deutsch Bank Group.
Claude Lamoureux
Claude Lamoureux is a non-executive director at Xstrata. He was director of Cordiant Capital and Financial Services Inc.
Jan du Plessis
Jan du Plessis is a director at Rio Tinto and a non-executive director and was chairman of the audit committee of Lloyds Banking Group.
Sir David Manning
Sir David Manning is a non-executive director at BG Group and a former British ambassador to the USA.
Lindsay Maxted
Lindsay Maxted is a director at BHP Billiton and chair of the Westpac Banking Corporation.
Sir John Parker
Sir John Parker is non-executive chairman of Anglo American and chair of the Court of the Bank of England.
Trevor Reid
Trevor Reid is chief financial officer at Xstrata. He was previously global head of resource banking at the Standard Bank Group.
Sir Steve Robson
Sir Steve Robson is a non-executive director at Xstrata. He used to be second permanent secretary at HM Treasury.
David Rough
David Rough is deputy chairman and senior independent non-executive director at Xstrata. Former group director at Legal & General Investments.
Dr John Schubert
Dr John Schubert is a director at BHP Billiton. He used to be chairman and director of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Sir Nigel Sheinwald
Sir Nigel Sheinwald is a non-executive director at Shell. He was British Ambassador to the United States (2007-2012) and permanent representative to the EU (2000-2003). Under Tony Blair, he was also foreign policy and defence adviser to the prime minister and head of the Cabinet Office Defence and Overseas Secretariat.
Mark Seligman
Mark Seligman is a non-executive director at BG Group. He also worked in senior roles at Barclays de Zoete Wedd and SG Warburg & Co.
Baroness Shriti Vadera
Baroness Shriti Vadera is a director at mining company BHP Billiton and spent 14 years at investment bank UBS Warburg. She was a minister in the Department for International Development, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Cabinet Office. She also worked at the UK Treasury.
Lars Thunnell
Lars Thunnell is a non-executive director at Standard Chartered. He is also director of Kosmos Energy and a non-executive director and vice chairman of Sithe Global Power LLP.
Gerrit Zalm
Gerrit Zalm is a non-executive director at Shell and chairman of the board at ABN AMRO Bank.
Josef Ackermann
Josef Ackermann is a non-executive director at Shell. He held a variety of positions at Credit Suisse and was chairman of the board at Deutsche Bank.
Ralph Barber
Ralph Barber is the group company secretary at HSBC. He is also chairman of the Disclosure Committee, and a member of the Listing Authority Advisory Committee of the Financial Services Authority.
Glyn Barker
Glyn Barker is a non-executive director at both Aviva and Transocean, an offshore oil and gas drilling company.
Om Prakash Bhatt
Om Prakash Bhatt is a non-executive director at both Standard Chartered and the Indian Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
Lord Norman Blackwell
Lord Norman Blackwell is a non-executive director at Lloyds and a member of the House of Lords where he has pushed for the construction of new coal power stations. He is a climate change sceptic.
Tim Breedon
Tim Breedon is a non-executive director at Barclays and a former chairman of the government’s non-bank lending taskforce and a former director of the Financial Reporting Council.
Sir CK Chow
Sir CK Chow is a board member at Anglo American and a non executive director of AIA Group Company Limited and non executive chairman of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited.
Sandy Crombie
Sandy Crombie is a non-executive director at RBS and a former member of the chancellor of the exchequer’s High Level Group on Financial Services.
Howard Davies
Howard Davies is a executive director at Prudential and a former head of the Financial Services Authority. He is the chair of the government commission looking into airport expansion.
Margaret Ewing
Margaret Ewing is a non-executive director at Standard Chartered and a member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel.
Ann Godbehere
Ann Godbehere is a non-executive director at both Prudential and mining company Rio Tinto. She was also CEO at reinsurers Swiss Re and interim CEO and executive director at Northern Rock after its nationalisation.
Carolyn Fairbairn
Carolyn Fairbairn is a non executive director at Lloyds and a former non-executive director of the Financial Services Authority and former policy adviser in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit.
Rona Fairhead
Rona Fairhead is a chair of the group risk committee at HSBC and is on the board at both HSBC and the UK government's Cabinet Office.
Douglas Flint
Douglas Flint is HSBC group chairman and was chair of the Financial Reporting Council's review of the Turnbull guidance on internal control. He also served on the Accounting Standards Board and the Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Board.
Val Gooding
Val Gooding is a non-executive director at Standard Chartered and lead non-executive director of the departmental board at the Home Office.
Dame Clara Furse
Dame Clara Furse is a non-executive director at Legal & General and also on the departmental board for the Department of Work and Pensions.
Gay Huey Evans
Gay Huey Evans is a non-executive director of both Aviva and the Financial Reporting Council.
Lord Kerr
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard is a non-executive director at Rio Tinto and director of the Scottish American Investment Company. He is an independent member of the House of Lords, and was permanent under secretary at the Foreign Office.
Sam Laidlaw
Sam Laidlaw is a non-executive director at HSBC and a member of the UK prime minister's Business Advisory Group and the lead non-executive board member of the UK Department for Transport.
Andrew Likierman
Andrew Likierman is a non-executive director at Barclays and is currently chair of the National Audit Office. A former treasury official, he was also a non-executive director of the Bank of England.
Rachel Lomax
Rachel Lomax is a non-executive director at HSBC and a former deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE) and member of the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee. She was also permanent secretary at the UK government departments for transport, work and pensions and Wales. She was also vice president and chief of staff to the president of the World Bank.
Paul Manduca
Paul Manduca is a non executive director at Prudential and worked as an audit chairman at Kazakh gas firm Kazmunaigas.
Rudy Markham
Rudy Markham is a non-executive director at Standard Chartered and Legal & General. He is also a member of the operational board of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a non-executive director of the UK’s corporate governance regulator, the Financial Reporting Council.
Trevor Matthews
Trevor Matthews is executive director at Aviva for developed markets and a commissioner for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
John McFarlane
John McFarlane is the chairman of Aviva. He was also a non-executive director of the Securities Association (UK securities regulator in the 1980s) and the Auditing Practices Board.
Adrian Montague
Adrian Montague is a non-executive director at Aviva and the UK subsidiary of EDF, a French company behind a number of coal power stations. He is also senior director of the UK government’s Green Investment Bank. He was also chief executive of the Treasury Taskforce.
Dambisa Moyo
Dambisa Moyo is a non-executive director at Barclays and used to be a non-executive director at Lundin Petroleum.
Brendan Nelson
Brendan Nelson is a non-executive director at RBS, having held senior positions at KPMG. He also chairs the audit committee at oil giant BP and is a board member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel, a subsidiary of the UK’s corporate governance regulator.
Baroness Noakes
Baroness Noakes is a non-executive director at RBS, a member of the House of Lords and a former shadow treasury minister. She has also voiced her climate change scepticism in parliament.
Charles O.Holliday
Charles O. Holliday is a non-executive director at Shell and also chairman of the board at Bank of America.
Phuthuma Nhleko
Phuthuma Nhleko is a board member at Anglo American and executive director of Pembani Group (Pty) Limited (private equity) and was previously director of Nedbank Group and Bidvest and Old Mutual (SA).
Philip Remnant
Philip Remnant is a board member of Prudential. He is also deputy chair of the UK Takeover Panel and a non-executive director of UK Financial Investments Ltd.
Peter Sands
Peter Sands, group chief executive of Standard Chartered, used to work for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Paul Skinner
Paul Skinner was chairman of mining company Rio Tinto. He was also group managing director of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell. He is a non-executive director at Standard Chartered bank and chairman of Infrastructure UK (part of the Treasury) and an official UK business ambassador.
John Stewart
John Stewart is chairman of Legal & General and a member of the Court of the Bank of England.
Tidjane Thiam
Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Prudential UK, is also a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group, the Strategic Advisory Group, the Strategic Advisory Group on UK Trade and Investment and the UK Takeover Panel.
Lord Andrew Turnbull
Lord Andrew Turnbull is a non-executive director at Prudential and a member of the House of Lords. He is also a trustee of the climate change denial organisation Global Warming Policy Foundation set up by former chancellor of the exchequer, Lord Lawson.
David Walker
David Walker is chairman of Barclays and a former executive director of the Bank of England. He has also worked in the Treasury and the International Monetary Fund and has contributed to a number of high level government reports, including a Financial Services Authority report on the failure of RBS.
John Varley
John Varley is a non-executive director at Rio Tinto. He was chief executive of Barclays.
*Board members of 8 big fossil fuel companies (Anglo American, BG Group, BHP Billiton, BP, Rio Tinto, Shell, Tullow Oil, Xstrata)
and the 8 biggest banks and investment management funds (Aviva, Barclays, HSBC, Legal and General, Lloyds, Prudential, RBS, Standard Chartered)