Kenneth Clarke - Corporate and Other Work

Corporate and Other Work

While a backbencher and shadow cabinet minister, Clarke took a number of non-executive directorships:

  • Deputy Chairman and a director of British American Tobacco (BAT) (1998–2007), for which Clarke faced allegations relating to activities of BAT in lobbying the developing world to reject stronger health warnings on cigarette packets and evidence that that corporation had been involved in smuggling and targeting children with advertisements.
  • Deputy Chairman of Alliance Unichem
  • Chairman (non-executive) of Unichem
  • Director of Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust
  • Member from June 2007 of the Advisory Board of Centaurus Capital, a London based hedge fund management company.
  • Clarke is a member of the advisory board of Agcapita Farmland Investment Partnership, a Canadian farmland investment fund.
  • Director (non-executive) of Independent News and Media (UK).
  • Participant at the annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group in 1993, 1998, 2006–2008 and 2012.

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