New Chairman for ECGD's Advisory Council

(eGov Monitor, London 14 January 2008) UK Minister of State for Energy Malcolm Wicks today announced the appointment of a new interim chairman of the Export Guarantees Advisory Council (EGAC). Professor Jonathan Kydd, a development economist and Dean of the University of London's External System, has been an EGAC member since November 2000. He succeeds SustainAbility founder John Elkington. EGAC advises ECGD - the UK's official export credit agency - and its Ministers, on ECGD's activities, with a particular focus on how ECGD can support UK industry, while contributing to sustainable development in emerging markets and complying with Government policies on transparency and on combatting bribery and corruption, as set out in ECGD's Business Principles.