Lord John Sharkey
Appointed member (since 2017)
John Sharkey has spent most of his commercial life in communications businesses. He was joint managing director of Saatchi and Saatchi UK, founded and ran his own advertising agency and was chair of various other communications and recruitment enterprises. He became strategic communications advisor to Nick Clegg in 2007 and was chair of the Liberal Democrat’s General Election campaign in 2010 and of the 2011 Fairer Votes campaign.
He is a former Chair of the Association of Medical Research Charities, a former Chair of the Hansard Society, a former Governor of the Institute for Government, a former Trustee of Full Fact Ltd and of the poverty relief charity Turn2us. He is a founding director of the financial services think-tank New City Agenda Ltd and also Chair of the Specialised Healthcare Alliance. He is a member of the House of Lords and of its Financial Regulation Select Committee. He is also a member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission.
