Sir John Oliver Frank Kingman has been Chair of Legal & General PLC since 2016. He is also Chair of Barclays UK, the ring-fenced retail bank of Barclays PLC, and a member of the Barclays PLC board. He was previously Chair of Tesco Bank.
He is Deputy Chair (and twice served as Acting Chair) of the National Gallery.
He is a former Second Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury.
From 2016-21, he was the first Chair of UK Research and Innovation, which oversees Government science and innovation funding of about £8bn a year. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society in 2021, "for his unwavering support for science throughout his career".
In 2018, he undertook a highly critical review of the Financial Reporting Council, recommending wholesale reform of the FRC and ending self-regulation of the major audit firms.
