Barnaby Nicholas Swire (born January 1964) is a British

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

businessman. He is the chairman of the

Swire Group Swire Group () is a Hong Kong- and London-based British conglomerate. Many of its core businesses can be found within the Asia Pacific region, where traditionally Swire's operations have centred on Hong Kong and mainland China. Within Asia ...

Early life

Barnaby Swire was born in January 1964. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

. He is a son of the late Sir John Anthony Swire, chairman of the

between 1966 and 1987 and life president of John Swire & Sons Ltd. He studied history and modern languages at

University College, Oxford University College (in full The College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford, colloquially referred to as "Univ") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It has a claim to being the oldest college of the univer ...

, leaving in 1985.

Career

Swire started his career at the family business, John Swire & Sons, in 1985. He worked for them in Hong Kong,

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and Japan. He transferred to London in 1994, where he continued to work for the Swire Group. He served on the board of directors of Lewmar Marine.Barnaby N. Swire
''Bloomberg Business'' He has served as the chairman of the Swire Group since the end of 2014, when he replaced

James Hughes-Hallett James Wyndham John Hughes-Hallett, CMG, SBS (10 September 1949 – 12 October 2019) was a British businessman and investor. He was Chairman of the Swire Group between 2005 and 2015. His sister is the author Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Hughes-Hallett di ...

.Ben Butler
Changing of the guard at Swire
''The Australian'', 20 January 2015 He was chairman of

The China Navigation Company The China Navigation Company. Pte. Ltd. is registered in Singapore, with parent entity - The China Navigation Company Limited (CNCo), trading brands as Swire Shipping & Swire Bulk, is a merchant shipping company based in Singapore. It is part of ...

Ltd., until 2019. Following his father's death in November 2016, he is now a billionaire.

Personal life

He is married and has four children. They reside in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

. Barnaby Swire has donated thousands of pounds to

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Swire, Barnaby Living people 1964 births People from Kent British people of English descent People educated at Eton College Alumni of University College, Oxford British billionaires

Barnaby Barnaby is an Old English surname composed of the Saxon element ''beorn'' 'young warrior' and the Danish suffix ''by'' meaning 'settlement'. As a given name, it means "son of consolation" and is etymologically linked with the New Testament name Bar ...

Conservative Party (UK) donors