John Kingman (businessman)

Sir John Oliver Frank Kingman KCB FRS FMedSci (born 24 April 1969) has been Chair of Legal & General Group Plc since 2016. He is also Chair of Barclays UK, the ring-fenced retail bank of Barclays PLC, and a member of the Barclays PLC board.

He has served as Deputy Chairman of the National Gallery since 3 April 2017, and has twice acted as Interim Chair of the Board of Trustees: first from September 2019 until early 2020, and again from May 2021 until September 2021.

He is a former Second Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury.

From 2016–21, he was the first Chair of UK Research and Innovation, which oversees Government science and innovation funding of about £8bn a year. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

In April 2018, Kingman was appointed by the UK Government to lead an independent review of the Financial Reporting Council. Published in December 2018, the report was highly critical of the FRC, recommending replacing the regulator with the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority.

He previously served as a member of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Advisory Council.