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Listen to this siteFood Standards Agency Chair 2005 - 2009.
Dame Deirdre Hutton, CBE became Chair of the Food Standards Agency in July 2005. She has served on a number of public bodies and has considerable experience of corporate governance, risk-based regulation and consumer policy. She is Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Food Science and Technology and Honorary Vice President of the Trading Standards Institute. She is a Non-Executive member of the HM Treasury Board.
She will be taking up the position of Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority when she concludes her term of office as Chair of the Food Standards Agency on 17 July 2009.
She was, until June 2008, the Vice-Chair of the European Food Safety Authority Management Board and was Deputy Chair of the Financial Services Authority until December 2007. During 2008, she was on the three-member panel that conducted an independent review of postal services on behalf of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. For five years, until 2005, she was Chair of the National Consumer Council, having formerly chaired the Scottish Consumer Council. Prior to her appointment at the Food Standards Agency, she was a member of the Better Regulation Task Force.
She has held a number of positions on bodies dealing with food issues, including Chair of the Foresight Panel on the Food Chain and Crops for Industry, Chair of the Food Chain Centre, and membership of the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (the Curry Commission).
Consultancies and/or direct employment
HM Treasury, non-executive member
Thomas Hutton (son), research chemist, Tate & Lyle plc
Nicholas Hutton (son), researcher for Jo Swinson, MP
Fee-paid work
None
Shareholdings
Shares in GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Eclectica Agricultural and Intercontinental Hotels to a value of approximately £25,000
Close family members hold shares in GlaxoSmithKline, ICI, Tesco, Scottish & Newcastle, Unilever, Marks & Spencer and Marston’s to a value of approximately £92,426
Clubs and other organisations
Forum UK, a club for senior women in UK, some of whom are in the food and related industries
Other personal interests
None
Fellowships
None
Indirect support
None
Trusteeships
Good Governance Network
Hoare Govett Trust
Alington Settlement
Cassels Settlement
Land and property
None
Other public appointments
HM Treasury, non-executive member
Other non-personal interests
Honorary Vice-President of the Trading Standards Institute
Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Food Science and Technology
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