Paul Skinner joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 3 November 2003.

He is Chairman of Infrastructure UK, a division of HM Treasury, mandated to bring a strategic focus to infrastructure development in the UK.  Paul is also a Non-Executive Director of the Tetra Laval Group and L’Air Liquide SA.  In addition, Paul is a member of the Public Interest Body of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.  He was appointed a UK Business Ambassador by the Government in 2008.

He previously was Chairman of Rio Tinto Plc from 2003-9 and was also a director of The ‘Shell’ Transport and Trading Company plc and Group Managing Director of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies where he was CEO of its global Oil Products business.  He worked for Shell for 37 years in the UK, Greece, Nigeria, New Zealand and Norway.  He also served as a member of the Defence Board of the MOD and as Chairman of the Commonwealth Business Council.

Paul read law at Pembroke College, Cambridge and has a diploma in Business Administration from the Manchester Business School.  He is married with two sons and lives in the UK.