Former Asda chief executive Archie Norman has been recruited to help steer the government’s post-Brexit business strategy.
Norman, formerly a Conservative MP and ITV chairman, becomes lead non-executive director of new Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) this month. In his position, he will work with business and energy secretary Greg Clark to plot the post-Brexit business and industrial strategy.
Norman will sit on the BEIS Departmental Board and give advice on the future direction of the department, with ministers hoping he can replicate his previous successes in business.
As former chief executive and chairman of Asda before its sale to Walmart, Norman worked with Allan Leighton to transform Asda from near bankruptcy into the second-largest food retailer in the UK.
He is also no stranger to politics, having served as a Tory MP for Tunbridge Wells from 1997 to 2005, rising to the rank of shadow environment secretary,
Clark said: “I’m delighted to welcome Archie Norman to this position. His wide and admired business experience will be of huge value to me and the government as we forge our industrial strategy.”
Norman added: “I’m delighted the business and energy secretary has asked me to take up this position and I will do all I can to support Greg Clark and the government at this important time for the British economy.”
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