Governance
Jim Leng
Director who left the Group during 2008 or 2009
Appointment and election: Director of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited and chairman designate from January 2009 until February 2009. Jim resigned from the boards of Rio Tinto prior to his election at the 2009 annual general meetings.
Skills and experience: Jim is chairman of Tata Steel Europe and deputy chairman of Tata Steel of India, following the Corus takeover by Tata in 2007. He is Chairman of Doncasters Group Ltd, an international specialist engineering company. He is also non executive director of Alstom SA where he chairs the nominations and remuneration committees, a Senior Adviser of HSBC and a member of their European Advisory Council and chairman of the European Advisory Board of AEA, a New York based Private Equity Partnership. Past directorships include Hanson PLC, where he was the senior independent director, Pilkington plc and IMI plc. In an executive capacity, he was CEO of Laporte plc, an international specialty chemical company from 1995 until 2001 and prior to joining Laporte he was the CEO of Low & Bonar plc. His early business years were spent at John Waddington where he was responsible for a number of subsidiary companies.
External appointments (current and recent):
Independent Director of TNK-BP since January 2009
Deputy Chairman of Tata Steel of India since 2007
Chairman of Tata Steel Europe Limited since November 2008
Chairman of Doncasters Group Limited since 2006
Non executive director of Alstom SA since 2003 and chairman of its nomination and remuneration committees
Chairman of of Tata Steel UK Limited from January 2008 to November 2008
Director of Corus Group Limited from 2001 to 2008
