Tony Foster

Tony Foster was appointed non-executive Council member in 2003. He has spent much of his career in the industrial chemicals sector: as General Manager of ICI General Chemicals Business, Director of ICI Chemicals and Polymers Ltd, and Chief Executive of ICI Chlorochemicals Business. He was also a non-executive director of Ellis and Everard plc, Chairman of the Catalyst Museum of the Chemical Industry, a member of the Supervisory Board of EVC, and a non-executive Director of the Countess of Chester NHS Trust. From 1997 to 2006 he was a full-time member of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. He is now a non-executive director of the government agency Animal Health and is a member of committees for the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Solicitors Regulation Authority.