Mark Edward Tucker

Sir Mark Edward Tucker, aged 67, is the Independent Non-executive Chairman and an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company, having been appointed on 1 October 2025. He is also the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. He has served as non-executive Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc (listed on the London Stock Exchange, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Bermuda Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange) from October 2017. He is also non-executive Group Chairman of the Discovery Group of South Africa.

Sir Mark served as an Executive Director and the Group Chief Executive and President of the Company from 2010 to 2017. He also served as the group chief executive of Prudential plc from 2005 to 2009.

Sir Mark was a non-executive director of the Court of The Bank of England from 2009 to 2012 and an independent director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from 2012 to 2017. He is a member of the International Business Leaders’ Advisory Councils to the Mayor of Beijing and the Mayor of Shanghai. In 2023, he was also appointed to the Chief Executives’ Council of Advisers of the HKSAR, the National Financial Regulatory Administration International Advisory Council of China and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Supreme National Investment Committee’s Investment Advisory Council. He was the co-chair of the Indian B20 Taskforce on Financial Inclusion for Economics Empowerment.

Sir Mark is on The Asia Society’s Board of Trustees in New York and is a Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is an Honorary Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also serves on the Asia Business Council and the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute.

Sir Mark obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Leeds University in 1980 and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Leeds University in 2022. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in England and Wales in 1985. In June 2024, Sir Mark was honoured with a Knighthood by His Majesty the King in recognition of his services to the economy.