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Sir Anthony Cleaver

Job tile: Chairman of the Engineering and Technology Board, SThree Plc and Working Links Ltd.

Born in 1938, Sir Anthony graduated from Trinity College, Oxford, in 1962. He joined IBM that year and his career with the company was to span the following 32 years. He was named General Manager in 1983, Chief Executive in 1986 and Chairman and Chief Executive in 1990 and retired from IBM in 1994.

He became Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in 1993 and led the privatisation of UKAEA's commercial activities, becoming Chairman of AEA Technology plc. In 2004, he became the founding Chairman of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority from which he retired in 2007.

During his career, Sir Anthony has been chairman of a number of organisations, including IX Europe Plc, the Medical Research Council, UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited, General Cable Plc, The Strategic Partnership Limited, the Government's Industrial Development Advisory Board, and a non-executive director of General Accident, Smith & Nephew Plc and Lockheed Martin UK Ltd. He has been a member of the British Government Panel on Sustainable Development, the Committee on Standards in Public Life (Nolan Committee), the Singapore British Business Council and the British Overseas Trade Board.

In the field of education and training, Sir Anthony was a founder member of the National Training Task Force and Chairman of its TEC Committee. He was also Chairman of the Independent Assessors of the TECs and a member of the NACETT.
From his long-term concern with the environment, Sir Anthony is President of Business Commitment to the Environment. In 1990 Sir Anthony was named a member of the United Nations Environment Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honour. He was knighted in 1992.