Ian Livingston

Ian Paul Livingston, Baron Livingston of Parkhead (born 28 July 1964), As of January 2025 he now serves as chairman of the board for financial services conglomerate S&P Global.

He was created a life peer on 15 July 2013 taking the title Baron Livingston of Parkhead.

Early and personal life The fourth generation son of Polish-Lithuanian Jews who arrived in Scotland 120 years ago, Livingston's family owned a factory making flying jackets and police uniforms. Livingston is the youngest of four children brought up in Kelvinside, his father was a general practitioner who practised medicine in Parkhead.

Livingston was educated at Hillhead Primary School before attending the independent Kelvinside Academy. He married his university contemporary, Deborah, in 1989. They live in Elstree, Hertfordshire and have two children (one son, one daughter).

Career After graduating with an economics degree from the University of Manchester at the age of 19, he trained as an accountant with Arthur Andersen, where, on assignment, he became the first chief accountant of The Independent newspaper.

Livingston was a non-executive director of Celtic F.C., where he was appointed to the board on 1 October 2007. In 2015, after he voted for cutting tax credits, Celtic fans launched a petition to have him removed from the board. Livingston resigned from the board in June 2017.

Livingston became Chairman of Currys plc in August 2017 and he served in that role until September 2022.

In March 2025, it was announced that Livingston would replace Richard Thornburg as non executive chairman of the board for S&P Global effective May 7, 2025.

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