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Ian King was appointed as Non-Executive Director of HS2 Ltd in July 2020 and is the lead board member for the Department for Transport.

Ian began his career in 1976 as a graduate entrant at Marconi, working in defence electronics manufacturing. He served as a finance director at Marconi Electronic Systems from 1992 to 1998 and became chief executive of Alenia Marconi following the merger of Marconi and British Aerospace merged in 1999 to form BAE Systems. He subsequently became group strategy and planning director at BAE systems.

In 2008, Ian was appointed chief executive of BAE Systems, a role he held until his retirement in June 2017. His current positions include lead directorship at the Department for Transport, senior adviser to Gleacher Shacklock, senior independent director at Schroders PLC and chair of Senior plc.