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China - Britain Business Council
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Who leads it
- Timothy Mark HowardDirector · since 2026
- Lin Siao Fou-MenuhinDirector · since 2025
- David Aubrey Daniel RothDirector · since 2025
- Renfei LiDirector · since 2025
- David QuarreyDirector · since 2025
- Adrian David CartwrightDirector · since 2024
- Samantha DeaveDirector · since 2024
- Peter William BurnettDirector · since 2024
- Sir James Sebastian WoodDirector · since 2022
- David John SlaterDirector · since 2022
- Sir Charles Edward Beck BowmanDirector · since 2020
- Shixu YangDirector · since 2020
- Sharon ChengDirector · since 2019
- David KingDirector · since 2016
- Gordon Robert Halyburton OrrDirector · since 2015
- Duncan Lewis John ClarkDirector · since 2014
- Kenneth MacphersonDirector · since 2014
- Robert John Tedder IsmaySecretary · since 2014
Previous officers 77
- Jeremy Adrian Amias 2023-2024 View profile
- Caroline Lucy Raggett 2023-2025 View profile
- Qing Pan 2022-2026 View profile
- Wilson Ray Del Socorro 2022-2025 View profile
- Nicole Chen 2022-2023 View profile
- Andrew James Seaton 2021-2024 View profile
- Suwin Lee 2021-2025 View profile
- Peter Gordon Hirst 2019-2021 View profile
- Edward William Holroyd Pearce 2019-2021 View profile
- Paul Anthony Kelleher 2019-2021 View profile
- Trevor John Millett 2019-2021 View profile
- Joy Leigh Isaacs 2019-2021 View profile
- Dr Shengke Zhi 2019-2022 View profile
- St. John Francis Moore 2019-2020 View profile
- Xiaoping Yang 2018-2020 View profile
- Edward John Salt 2018-2023 View profile
- David Anthony Sayer 2017-2022 View profile
- Jonathan Michael Arundell Bewes 2017-2023 View profile
- Philip Christopher Thomson 2017-2022 View profile
- Katharine Maria Lee 2017-2019 View profile
- David John Pilsbury 2017-2025 View profile
- Matthew James Rous 2017-2021 View profile
- Nicholas Edward Holt 2017-2019 View profile
- Andrew Robert Moss 2016-2018 View profile
- Tracy Jayne Clarke 2016-2017 View profile
- Catherine Kwan Li 2016-2022 View profile
- Bridget Agnes Walsh 2015-2020 View profile
- Joanne Helen Lusby 2015-2017 View profile
- Clare Joan Pearson 2015-2017 View profile
- Paul Campbell Atherley 2014-2015 View profile
- Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles 2014-2025 View profile
- Andrew Miles Lambert 2013-2019 View profile
- Oliver Jonathan Shiell 2013-2016 View profile
- Mark Ian Ranson Wilson 2013-2017 View profile
- Lord Sassoon, KT, James Meyer 2013-2019 View profile
- Mark Douglas Wilson 2013-2015 View profile
- Robert Terence Grace 2013-2015 View profile
- Charles Chetwynd Douglas Haswell 2013-2014 View profile
- Dr Nigel Wells Kerby 2013-2015 View profile
- Russell Peter Brown 2012-2014 View profile
- Gilles Albaredes 2012-2012 View profile
- John Nigel Major Mclean OBE 2011-2019 View profile
- Graham Stephen Curren 2011-2017 View profile
- Philip Ronald Bouverat 2011-2017 View profile
- Professor Christopher Douglas Rudd 2011-2017 View profile
- Sir Thomas Richard Troubridge 2010-2020 View profile
- Harvey John Davenport 2010-2013 View profile
- Patrick Arthur Tindale 2010-2012 View profile
- Graham Stanley Cartledge CBE 2010-2019 View profile
- Joanna Louise Sayer Dodd 2010-2016 View profile
- Nigel Bruce Clarke 2010-2010 View profile
- Sir Professor Timothy Michael Martin O'Shea 2008-2010 View profile
- Andrew Halper 2008-2011 View profile
- Raymond Chi Ho Wong 2008-2011 View profile
- Ian Edward Barlow 2007-2016 View profile
- Dr Malcolm Geoffrey Cohen 2007-2010 View profile
- Lance Browne 2007-2016 View profile
- Garth Jones 2007-2008 View profile
- Martin Gilbert Barrow 2007-2016 View profile
- Peter Graham Batey 2007-2018 View profile
- Andrew Peter Scott 2007-2012 View profile
- Lord Robert Haldane Smith (of Kelvin) 2007-2008 View profile
- Peter James Budd 2007-2014 View profile
- David John Shaw 2007-2012 View profile
- Sir David William Brewer 2007-2013 View profile
- Hugh Llewelyn Davies 2007-2013 View profile
- William John Thomson 2007-2010 View profile
- Sir David John Wright 2007-2009 View profile
- Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe 2007-2013 View profile
- John Stewart Morgan 2007-2011 View profile
- John Barclay Forrest 2007-2008 View profile
- Thomas Guy Goldberg 2007-2010 View profile
- Stephen John Richard Gilman 2007-2008 View profile
- Stephen Lawrence Andrew Perry 2007-2012 View profile
- Neil Sampson 2007-2025 View profile
- Stephen Christopher Phillips 2007-2017 View profile
- Cheryl Wye Meng Low 2007-2014 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- Incorporated
- 25/06/2007
Group
No further corporate or individual controller is recorded above China - Britain Business Council on the PSC register - it appears to be the top of its group.
1 other company in this group
Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.
Financials
- Net assets
- £200,981
- Total assets
- £617,919
- Cash
- £1,510,740
- Employees
- 49
- Turnover
- Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)
- Profit/loss
- -£340,738
Filed as Group accounts.
Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-03-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
17 directors on the board
- Adrian David Cartwright Director · appointed 2024
- Duncan Lewis John Clark Director · appointed 2014
- Gordon Robert Halyburton Orr Director · appointed 2015
- Sir Charles Edward Beck Bowman Director · appointed 2020
- Peter William Burnett Director · appointed 2024
- Timothy Mark Howard Director · appointed 2026
- Shixu Yang Director · appointed 2020
- Lin Siao Fou-Menuhin Director · appointed 2025
- David Aubrey Daniel Roth Director · appointed 2025
- David King Director · appointed 2016
- Sir James Sebastian Wood Director · appointed 2022
- Sharon Cheng Director · appointed 2019
- David John Slater Director · appointed 2022
- Samantha Deave Director · appointed 2024
- Renfei Li Director · appointed 2025
- David Quarrey Director · appointed 2025
- Kenneth Macpherson Director · appointed 2014
Directors past 6 years
- Duncan Lewis John Clark Director · appointed 2014
- Gordon Robert Halyburton Orr Director · appointed 2015
- Sir Charles Edward Beck Bowman Director · appointed 2020
- Shixu Yang Director · appointed 2020
- David King Director · appointed 2016
- Sharon Cheng Director · appointed 2019
- Kenneth Macpherson Director · appointed 2014
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (6)
- Timothy Mark Howard Director · appointed 2026
- Shixu Yang Director · appointed 2020
- Sharon Cheng Director · appointed 2019
- Samantha Deave Director · appointed 2024
- Renfei Li Director · appointed 2025
- Kenneth Macpherson Director · appointed 2014
Portfolio (11)
- Adrian David Cartwright Director · appointed 2024
- Duncan Lewis John Clark Director · appointed 2014
- Gordon Robert Halyburton Orr Director · appointed 2015
- Sir Charles Edward Beck Bowman Director · appointed 2020
- Peter William Burnett Director · appointed 2024
- Lin Siao Fou-Menuhin Director · appointed 2025
- David Aubrey Daniel Roth Director · appointed 2025
- David King Director · appointed 2016
- Sir James Sebastian Wood Director · appointed 2022
- David John Slater Director · appointed 2022
- David Quarrey Director · appointed 2025
Also govern a charity
Left in the last 12 months
- Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles Director · appointed 2014 · resigned 2025
- Neil Sampson Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2025
- Suwin Lee Director · appointed 2021 · resigned 2025
- Caroline Lucy Raggett Director · appointed 2023 · resigned 2025
- David John Pilsbury Director · appointed 2017 · resigned 2025
- Qing Pan Director · appointed 2022 · resigned 2026
- Wilson Ray Del Socorro Director · appointed 2022 · resigned 2025
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 06291886
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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