Sir Roger Bone

Sir Roger was President of Boeing UK from 2005 to 2014. He is the Chairman of Over-C Ltd, a small high tech company in the telecoms sector, and was senior independent director of Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust Plc until May 2021. As well as chairing ITM, Sir Roger also chairs Motive Fuels Limited, a 50/50 joint venture with Vitol. He was a non-executive director and trustee of the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) from 2013 to 2019, and was one of the Prime Minister’s honorary Ambassadors for British business from 2009 to 2015. 

He was British Ambassador to Brazil from 1999 to 2004 and to Sweden from 1995 to 1999, and prior to that an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was a Trustee of the Royal United Services Institute, the London based think tank, from 2013 to 2020 and is an honorary fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers. He was educated at Oxford University and holds an honorary doctorate in engineering from Sheffield University.