Bio

Martin Broughton serves as Deputy Chairman of IAG, having previously served as Chairman of British Airways from 2004. He was President of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) from January 2007 until June 2009. Martin chaired the British Horseracing Board from 2004-2007, having joined as an independent director in 1999. From 1998-2004, he was Chairman of British American Tobacco (BAT), having previously been group chief executive since 1993. Earlier he had been chairman of the Wiggins Teape Group and chairman of Eagle Star. He was the European chair of the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue until 2008 and is a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists.