John Howard to lead Transparency Task Force advisory board

Ex-BBC TV and radio presenter

James Phillips
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John Howard has been appointed founding chairman of the Transparency Task Force's (TTF) newly-formed advisory board.

Formerly a BBC TV and radio presenter - including presenting Radio 4's You and Yours between 1979 and 1994 - Howard was appointed to the role earlier this month and is also a member of the Scottish Widows independent governance committee (IGC) and with-profits committee. He will be tasked, alongside other board members, with "formally" shaping the purpose and strategy of the pressure group. He was also previously chairman of the Financial Services Consumer Panel from 2005 to 2008 and, upon stepping down, a non-executive director of the Financial Ombudsman Service from 2008 to 2010, an...

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