Rudy Markham joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 19 February 2001. He is also Senior Independent Director.

Rudy is a Non-Executive Director of Legal and General Group Plc, AstraZeneca PLC, United Parcel Service, Inc., the Operational Board of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Non-Executive Chairman of Moorfields Eye Hospital. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of CSM.nv and a member of the Board of the Financial Reporting Council.

Rudy was previously Financial Director of Unilever PLC and Unilever NV until his retirement. He joined Unilever in 1968 and from 1989 to 1998 he was based in East Asia, latterly as Business Group President North East Asia based in Singapore. He joined the Board of Unilever as Strategy and Technology Director and became a member of the Executive Committee in May 1998. He was appointed Finance Director in August 2000.

Rudy studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he gained a Masters Degree in Natural Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.