Andrew Harrison (born 2 May 1957) is a British businessman and former management consultant, currently the chairman of SEGRO. He previously served as the CEO of The RAC,

easyJet EasyJet plc (styled as easyJet) is a British multinational low-cost airline group headquartered at London Luton Airport. It operates domestic and international scheduled services on 927 routes in more than 34 countries via its affiliate airlin ...

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and the Dunelm Group.

Early life

Harrison was educated at Hitchin Boys' Grammar School and

Bristol Grammar School Bristol Grammar School (BGS) is a 4–18 Mixed-sex education, mixed, Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school in Bristol, England. It was founded in 1532 by Royal Charter for the teaching of 'good manners and literature', endowe ...

, an independent day school. He went on to study economics at

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from ...

. He attended Maritzburg College and Natal university in South Africa.

Career

Prior to joining the RAC, Harrison held the roles of managing director 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 Courtauld ...

International Fabrics and finance director of Courtaulds Textiles plc. He was also a non-executive director at

EMAP Ascential (formerly EMAP) was a British-headquartered global company, specialising in events, intelligence and advisory services for the marketing and financial technology industries. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was ac ...

. He was the chief executive of the automotive services company the RAC (previously Lex Services plc) from 1996 to 2005. Harrison was announced as Ray Webster's successor as CEO of

in September 2005. Harrison announced his intention to leave easyJet in December 2009 and departed in 2010 as Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the airline's founder, described him as "overrated". Harrison became CEO of the British multinational hotel, coffee shop and restaurant company

in 2010, replacing

Alan Parker Sir Alan William Parker (14 February 1944 – 31 July 2020) was an English film director, screenwriter and producer. His early career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television advertisements. After abo ...

. Harrison left in 2015, succeeded by Alison Brittain. Harrison became chairman of Dunelm Group in July 2015. Harrison succeeded Gerald Corbett as the chairman of SEGRO in 2022.

References

External links

Biography at Dunelm
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