26 May 2006
The Prime Minister has re-appointed Mr Richard Haythornthwaite to the Board of the National Museum of Science and Industry for a period of 4 years from 6 June 2006.
Biographical Details
Mr Richard Haythornthwaite is a managing director of Star Capital Partners. He was previously Chief Executive of Invensys from 2001 to 2005 and Blue Circle Industries from 1999 to 2001 after having spent 20 years in the oil and gas sector with BP and Premier Oil. He is a non-executive director of ICI, Chair of the Better Regulation Commission, Chair of the Almeida Theatre, Chair of the Tate Gallery Corporate Advisory Group and a Board Member of the British Council.
Mr Haythornthwaite has not been involved in any political activity in the past 5 years.
Notes to Editors
NMSI is the world’s pre-eminent museum group holding the national collections of science, technology, medicine, transport and media. It operates three of the top museums in the United Kingdom: the Science Museum in London, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, and the National Railway Museum in York. A fourth museum, Locomotion, was opened at Shildon, County Durham by the Prime Minister in October 2004. NMSI Wroughton, near Swindon, is the Museum’s major storage site and is being developed into a National Collections Centre.
Trustees are not remunerated.
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