Non-Executive Chairman

John Campbell co-founded Campbell Lutyens in 1988 with Bill Dacombe (formerly a director of N.M. Rothschild and of Royal Bank of Scotland) and the late Richard Lutyens (formerly a director of S.G. Warburg and of Merrill Lynch).

He has over 50 years of corporate finance and private equity experience and holds an MA in Economics from Cambridge University, where he was an Exhibitioner at Sidney Sussex College.

After an early career in corporate finance at Rothschilds, Campbell was an executive director of Noble Grossart for 15 years, representing the company in London from 1976 to 1987. Additionally, from 1979 to 1982 he was managing director of McLeod Russel plc, the international agri-business group with principal operations in Africa, Asia and Australia.

Between 2006 and 2014, Campbell was the first European-based Director and in 2018 was awarded lifetime membership of the U.S.-based Pacific Pension & Investment Institute (PPI), a global organization with members from some 50 of the leading pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations in the world. Members are represented by senior-level executives who value the trusted relationships that PPI fosters inside its programs and through its network. Campbell is an advisor to the board of the Long Term Infrastructure Investors Association (LTIIA).

Campbell completed in 2020 to critical acclaim a long-planned book about his inspirational hero and mentor, the statesman Lord Haldane. For more, visit haldane.com