John McLaren joined the Supervisory Board in September 2011. In December 2016, John moved to Saudi Arabia and so stepped down from the Board. John has now returned to the UK and in January 2020 he re-joined the Board as an Independent Board Member. John works in global communications and in the past has worked for three years for DSM as the Vice President Corporate Communications , 11 years as corporate director of global communications for AkzoNobel in Amsterdam. After leaving the Netherlands, he worked for just under three years as communications counsel for a management consulting firm to the banking and services sector, and then the last three years has been doing PR for energy suppliers in the Middle East. John currently works as a global communications strategist and counsel.
John went to St. Edmund’s, Canterbury and graduated in law from the London School of Economics. He is also a governor of Danes Hill in England and former Chairman of the Haberdashers’ Knights Academy. John is the Chairman of the Communications and Development Committee of the Supervisory Board.
His second four-year term comes to an end in December 2023.