Martin Taylor (born 1952) is a businessman and former chief executive of

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. He is an external member of the Bank of England's

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Career

He joined

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as a journalist in 1974, before moving to the ''

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'' in 1978, where he edited the paper's "Lex" column. In 1984, he joined the board of

Courtaulds Courtaulds was a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of fabric, clothing, artificial fibres, and chemicals. It was established in 1794 and became the world's leading man-made fibre production company before being broken up in 1990 into Courtaulds ...

, becoming chief executive of Courtaulds Textiles by 1990. He became chief executive of Barclays four years later, in 1994, remaining there until 1998. He joined the board at retail chain

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in 1999, eventually becoming chief executive before departing in 2003. He was a member of the UK Parliament select Committee for Science and Technology for five years. He also joined the

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(IPPR) and compiled their 2001 Commission on Public/Private Partnerships report. He has attended many meetings of the

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and served as Secretary General for several years. Taylor is vice-chairman of the board of RTL Group., and was formerly chairman of Syngenta AG and of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. He was an international adviser to Goldman Sachs until 2005. He was appointed to the Bank of England Financial Policy Committee in March 2013.

Education and life

Taylor was born in

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, Lancashire, Preston, at the confluence of the River C ...

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, and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a degree in Oriental languages. Taylor has two daughters and a son. He is an avid traveller and is interested in art, language, music, literature, and architecture.

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