Colin Sharman, Baron Sharman

Colin Morven Sharman, Baron Sharman OBE (born 19 February 1943), is the British chairman of Aviva Group and former chairman of KPMG International.

He was educated at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1965. He joined Peat Marwick Mitchell the following year, and rose through the years to become chairman of the renamed KPMG in 1997.

In 1999 he entered as Baron Sharman, of Redlynch in the County of Wiltshire the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.

Lord Sharman has been a member of the ABN AMRO Supervisory Board since 2003. He has been chairman of Aviva Group since January, 2006. He is also a non-executive director at Reed Elsevier, BG Group and on the board of Group 4 Securicor. The Times 'Power 100' states that Lord Sharman earns over £400,000 a year from his management roles.

External links

• Lord Sharman profile at the site of Liberal Democrats
• Lord Sharman in the Times Power 100 list
• Bio on the ABN AMRO press site
• Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 27 October 1999

Resources

• Derek Matthews, Jim Pirie. Routledge, London. 2000. 

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