Cridland to get £310k as new CBI director general

Cridland, who has been deputy director-general since 2000, will be appointed for a five-year term at the end of January 2011 on a salary of £310,000. He joined the CBI as a policy adviser in 1982 and became its youngest-ever director in 1991, when he took over the environmental affairs brief, before moving on to human resources policy in 1995. Before joining the CBI, Cridland served on the Low Pay Commission from its inception in 1997 until 2007, and as an ACAS councillor for the same period. He also served on the Commission on Environmental Markets and Economic Performance, and th...