[Ip-health] UK: PM Brown appoints GSK CEO and Wellcome Trust Chair to new business council

[Michelle Childs]

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> Gordon Brown Appoints Business Council
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>    UK  Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced the formation of a
> Business
>    Council for Britain.
>
>    The Prime Minister has announced the creation of a Business Council
>    for Britain comprising senior representatives of UK-based
> businesses,
>    to advise him on issues that affect enterprise, business and the
> long
>    term productivity and competitiveness of the economy.
>
>    The Council will be chaired by Mervyn Davies of the Standard
> Chartered
>    Bank and will be attended by the Prime Minister and Secretaries of
>    State of the main economic departments will attend. Other
> Secretaries
>    of State will attend the meetings at the invitation of the Council.
>
>    The Council remit will be to:
>      * advise the Government on its ongoing policies and priorities;
>      * conduct its own reviews on the areas it believes will determine
>        the future economic well-being of the UK; and
>      * where issues are particularly important, have the power to
>        establish Special Commissions to make recommendations for
> reform.
>
>    The full list of members of the council is:
>      * Sir Richard Branson: Founder, Virgin Group
>      * Damon Buffini: Managing Partner, Permira
>      * Sir William Castell: Chair, Wellcome Trust
>      * Mervyn Davies: Chairman, Standard Chartered Bank
>      * Sir Rod Eddington: Director, News Corporation
>      * Dr Jean Pierre Garnier: Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Glaxo
>        SmithKline
>      * Stephen Green: Chairman, HSBC
>      * Tony Hayward: CEO, BP
>      * Sir Terry Leahy: CEO, Tesco
>      * Sir John Parker: Chair, National Grid
>      * Sir John Rose: CEO, Rolls Royce
>      * Stuart Rose: CEO, Marks and Spencer
>      * Arun Sarin: CEO, Vodafone
>      * Dame Marjorie Scardino: CEO, Pearson
>      * Sir Alan Sugar: Chair and CEO, Amstrad
>
>    William Sargent, Executive Chair of the Better Regulation Executive
>    will also attend.
>
>     For urther information, please visit: http://www.number-10.gov.uk
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Michelle Childs
Head of European Affairs
Knowledge Ecology International
michelle.childs@cptech.org