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Richard Keys

Non-Executive Director

Richard Keys is a chartered accountant and retired as a senior partner of the UK firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) in June 2010. Over his 37 years with PwC he held a number of senior management positions, most recently that of Global Chief Accountant, leading a team of partners and professionals across more than 30 countries. His roles have included responsibility for many top clients of the Firm on both a national and global basis where he worked closely with and advised boards, senior management and audit committees. He spent a period on secondment to the UK Government, had a significant involvement in the UK privatisation programme and in the first IPO of a major Chinese Airline.

Since 2010 he has enjoyed a portfolio of Board roles ranging across, banking, air transport, utilities, central government and education.

Richard is a NED, Chair of the Governance Committee and member of the Audit and Risk Committees of Merrill Lynch International; a NED, Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and member of the Nominations and Transformation Review Committees of NATS Holdings Limited; Non-Executive Chair and Director of Glaziers Hall Limited; and Non-Executive Member and Chair of the Group Audit and Risk Committee of the Department for Transport.

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