Non-Executive Board Members
Non-Executive Board Members provide a valuable external perspective and ensure that executive members of the Management Board are supported and constructively challenged in their role.
They are recruited via fair and open competition, which takes into account the code of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments as best practice.
Andrew Witty
Lead non-executive board member
Andrew Witty became CEO of GlaxoSmithKline in May 2008. Prior to this he held a variety of roles within the company both in the UK and overseas before being appointed President of GSK Europe and joining GSK’s Corporate Executive Team in 2003.
Andrew has served in numerous advisory roles to Governments around the world including South Africa, Singapore, China and the UK and is on the Board of the INSEAD business school.
Andrew is also President of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations.
Professor Julia King
Julia King CBE FREng became Vice-Chancellor of Aston University in 2006. Prior to that, from 2004, she was principal of the Engineering Faculty at Imperial College. Before that, Julia was Chief Executive of the Institute of Physics and has worked in senior managerial positions at Rolls Royce plc.
Julia King works closely with Government as a member of the Ministerial Group on Manufacturing, the Committee on Climate Change, and the National Security Forum.
She spent four years advising the Ministry of Defence as Chair of the Defence Science Advisory Council, and five years as a non-executive member of the Technology Strategy Board.
Julia led the ‘King Review’ to examine the vehicle and fuel technologies that could help to reduce carbon emissions from road transport.
Dr Brian Woods-Scawen
Brian Woods-Scawen CBE, BA (Econ), MA, LLD, D. Univ, FCA, FRSA, DL has a range of non-executive appointments in the public and private sectors.
He is Chairman of the West Bromwich Building Society, a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, a Board member of the Office for Legal Complaints, a Board member of the Government Office for the West Midlands and Treasurer of Warwick University.
Brian is a Chartered Accountant. He was formerly Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and a member of the PwC Global Board.
