Sir John Parker

Sir Thomas John Parker (born 8 April 1942) is a British businessman. He is chairman of Laing O'Rourke and former chairman of Pennon Group, a director of Carnival Corporation & plc and lead non-executive director at the Cabinet Office. He has been a director or chairman of numerous other public companies including Airbus, Anglo American plc, Babcock International, British Gas, DP World, Lattice Group, National Grid plc and Ombu Group. He is a past president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 1963–1974 Member of ship design team at Harland & Wolff 1993–2002 Non-Executive Director of The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity 2000–2002 Chairman of Lattice Group 2000–present Director of Carnival plc 2001–2003 Non-Executive Director of Brambles 2002–2011 Chairman of National Grid plc 2003–present Non-Executive Director of Carnival Corporation 2007–2015 Director and vice-chairman of DP World 2007–2018 Non-executive director of Airbus Group 2008 Non-executive chairman of BVT Surface Fleet 2009–2017 Chairman of Anglo American plc 2011–2018 Non-executive chairman of Ombu Group 2011–2014 President of the Royal Academy of Engineering The first review, published in 2017, set out seven recommendations, including a "One by '21" target. Its aim was that all FTSE 100 boards should have at least one director from an ethnic minority background by December 2021. This was a relative success, with 89 FTSE 100 companies and 128 FTSE 250 companies having ethnic minority representation on their boards as of 31 December 2021.

Recognition He was knighted for services to defence and shipbuilding in 2001. He was the Chancellor of the University of Southampton as well as being a governor of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. and non-executive director at the Bank of England. He was President of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects from 1996 to 1999. In 2012, he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE), for services to Industry and to the voluntary sector. He was conferred with Honorary Fellowship of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (HonFIES) in 2012. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1983. He was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (HonFIET) in 2014.

Personal life Parker married Emma, a former Latin teacher and pianist, in 1967; they have two children. Parker is a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.