Paul Skinner to head reformed DE&S
Paul Skinner (above) has been appointed to head up the board for the reformed DE&S which was established on April 1st this year. As non executive chair, he will provide strategic leadership to the organisation and be accountable to Ministers at the MoD for the work of DE&S.
Paul is a former Group Managing Director of Royal Dutch/Shell and Chair of Rio Tinto, the global mining and minerals company. He was a member of the Defence Board from 2006-2009 and was non-executive Chair of the Advisory Board of Infrastructure UK at HM Treasury during its initial phase which saw the development of the National Infrastructure Plan. .
He is a non-executive director at Standard Chartered plc, Air Liquide SA, the Tetra Laval Group and was a member of the Board of INSEAD, the European/Asian business school.