Lord Fowler - Non Executive Director

Norman Fowler has combined politics and business in his career. In politics he was a member of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet from 1979 to 1990. He was in turn Transport Secretary, Health and Social Security Secretary and Employment Secretary. He carried out some of the first privatisations of the Thatcher government and also was responsible for important reforms in both health and social security. In the Employment Department he abolished the dock work regulation scheme. Later he became chairman of the Conservative Party under John Major and was a member of William Hague’s shadow cabinet. He left the House of Commons in 2001 and went to the House of Lords in the same year. 

When he left the government in 1990 one of the first appointments he took up was as a non-executive board member of Evered. That company eventually became a part of Aggregate Industries. He was Chairman of Aggregate Industries from 2000 to 2006 and later was on the main board of Holcim. In his career he has also been chairman of the Yorkshire Post group of newspapers and the Birmingham Post group of newspapers. He is currently chairman of the Thomson Foundation and a non-executive director of ABTA the travel business.