Key People

Rudy Markham Rudy Markham joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as a Non-Executive Director on 19 February 2001.

He is a Non-Executive Director of Legal and General Group Plc and of United Parcel Service, Inc. and is a member of the Board of the Financial Reporting Council.

Rudy was previously Financial Director of Unilever PLC and Unilever NV until his retirement in October 2007. 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.