Rupert Lascelles Pennant-Rea was born on 23 January 1948 and is a British businessman, journalist, and former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
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Rupert Pennant-Rea was editor of The Economist newspaper and later Chairman of The Economist Group.
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Rupert Pennant-Rea is married and has three children and one step-daughter.
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Rupert Pennant-Rea joined the Bank of England in 1973 and remained until 1977, when he left to work for The Economist magazine.
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Rupert Pennant-Rea was the magazine's editor from 1986 until 1993.
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Rupert Pennant-Rea was chairman of The Stationery Office following its privatisation in 1996.
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Rupert Pennant-Rea was a British American Tobacco director from 1998 to 2007.
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Rupert Pennant-Rea was Chairman of Henderson Group, and a non-executive director of several companies such as Go-Ahead Group, a transport company, First Quantum Minerals and Gold Fields, both mining companies.
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In July 2009, Rupert Pennant-Rea was appointed non-executive chairman of The Economist Group, having served as a non-executive director since August 2006.
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Rupert Pennant-Rea was chairman at Royal London, and Chairman of PGI [1], an agriculture company.
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Rupert Pennant-Rea was a National Independent director of Times Newspapers.
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Since retiring from Royal London in 2019, Rupert Pennant-Rea has been an angel investors and board member of start-ups related to greenhouse gases reduction such as Cloud-Cycle [2].
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Rupert Pennant-Rea was a trustee of Speakers Trust, the UK's leading public-speaking training charity and Chairman of the Shakespeare Schools Festival.
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Rupert Pennant-Rea has written several books about economics and a novel, Gold Foil.