Stuart Chambers

Chairman, Anglo American plc Business Circle

Stuart Chambers is a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of both Anglo American plc and Travis Perkins plc. He is also a member of The Takeover Panel and a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford. Stuart graduated from University College London in Physics in 1977 and started his career with Shell as a chemical engineer. After 10 years with Shell he spent 10 years with the Mars Corporation and joined Pilkington plc in 1996, where he was appointed Group Chief Executive in 2002. Pilkington was acquired by Nippon Sheet Glass in June 2006 and Stuart became Group Chief Executive of the new combined Group from which role he retired in March 2010. Stuart was Chairman of Rexam PLC from 2012 to 2016 and ARM Holdings plc from 2014 to 2016 and served as a non-executive director on the Boards of Tesco plc, Tesco Bank, Manchester Airport Group, Smiths Group plc and Associated British Ports Holdings plc. Stuart is married with 3 children and enjoys sport of any kind, but predominantly sailing and rugby.