Niall FitzGerald KBE
Niall FitzGerald is the Deputy Chairman of Thomson Reuters following the creation of the new company in April 2008. Prior to this he was the Chairman of Reuters from October 2004, having spent over thirty years with Unilever in a variety of commercial and financial jobs in several countries. In the early 1980’s he became CEO of Unilever’s foods business in South Africa and thereafter returned to London as Unilever Group Treasurer.

Mr. FitzGerald joined the boards of Unilever plc and Unilever NV in 1987 and served respectively as Finance Director, Foods Director and Detergents Director until his appointment as Chairman and CEO in 1996. During his Unilever career, he worked and lived in Ireland, the Netherlands, South Africa, the USA and the UK.

Board Mandates
Mr. FitzGerald joined the board of Reuters as a Non-Executive Director in 2003 and became Chairman in 2004. He is Chairman of the Nelson Mandela Legacy Trust (UK) and was appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum in 2006. He also
co-Chairs the Investment Climate Facility (ICF) for Africa. Mr. FitzGerald is Chairman of the International Business Council, a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and also a Trustee of the Leverhulme Trust.

He is a Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley International and on the Advisory Board of Spencer Stuart and Tsinghua University. Until 2008 he was also a member of the President of South Africa’s International Advisory Council, the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Blackstone European Advisory Board.

He has been Chairman of the Conference Board (2003-2005) and Co-Chairman of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) (2004-2005). He has been Non-Executive Director of Merck (2000-2003), Ericsson (2000-2002), Bank of Ireland (1990-1999) and the Prudential Corporation (1992-1999). He has also been President of the Advertising Association
(2000-2005), a member of the Kok Commission on the Lisbon Agenda, a member of
the Accounting Standards Review Committee, Chairman of the CBI Europe Committee,
and member of the International Policy Council for Agriculture and Trade.

Awards
Mr. FitzGerald was awarded an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire in 2002, and holds a number of honorary doctorates from American, British and Irish universities.