Ian Tyler joined the Public Interest Committee on 1 September 2025. Ian is a Chartered Accountant by profession, qualifying with Arthur Andersen in 1985. He spent his senior executive career with Balfour Beatty, initially as CFO and from 2005 to 2013 as Chief Executive.
Since stepping down from Balfour Beatty, Ian has had a varied portfolio career focused primarily on infrastructure, defence and natural resources. He has chaired a number of listed and non-listed companies, including Vistry, Cairn Energy, Amey, AWE Management and Affinity Water. He has also served on the Boards of a number of FTSE listed companies including BAE Systems, where he chaired the Corporate Responsibility Committee and latterly the Remuneration Committee, as well as Cable and Wireless Communications and Synthomer, where in both cases he chaired the Audit Committee. Ian stepped down from Synthomer in December 2025.
Ian currently chairs Grafton Group PLC, the FTSE 250 European building materials distributor; he is a Non-Executive Director of Anglo American, where he is the Senior Independent Director and Remuneration Committee Chair; and he is a Non-Executive Director and chairs the Remuneration Committee at BP. He also chairs BMT, a UK based international maritime engineering business, owned through an employee benefit trust.