Sir Brendan Barber was appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Banking Standard Board on 1 March 2016. He is also Chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) which he joined in January 2014.
He was the General Secretary of the TUC from 2003 to 2012 having first joined the TUC in 1975. He is a member the Council of City University London which he graduated from with a BSc in Social Sciences in 1974. He is also a member of the Board of the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. In 2017 he was also appointed to the board of Openreach.
During his time at the TUC he sat on the Acas Council from 1995 to 2004, the Board of Sport England from 1999 to 2003 and the Court of Directors of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2012.
He is a Visiting Fellow at the Said Business School, Oxford University, and a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. In 2007 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the City University. Sir Brendan was knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to employment relations.
Sir Brendan is the Chair of the BSB’s Professionalism Forum, announced in March 2017.
