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The Government has created a new body of top business leaders to advise it on foreign investment.

The Investment Council will be made up of private sector senior leaders from around the globe in a variety of industries – from technology and energy to infrastructure and financial services.

The council, led by Minister for Investment Gerry Grimstone, will meet twice a year and on an ad hoc basis to provide high-level strategic advice to the Department for International Trade and wider government, operating alongside the recently formed Office for Investment.

Members will share their experiences in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ market and views on º£½ÇÊÓƵ competitiveness, and advise on policy and regulatory changes that could improve the attractiveness of the º£½ÇÊÓƵ for foreign investors.

The aim of the council will be to drive investment into priority areas and sectors, levelling up the whole of the º£½ÇÊÓƵ through an investment-led recovery.

The 40 unpaid council members are:

• Katherine Bennett, CBE, Senior Vice President º£½ÇÊÓƵ, Airbus
• Anne Glover, CBE, CEO, Amadeus Capital Partners
• Andrew Sillitoe, Co-CEO, Apax
• Gert Dijkstra, Senior Managing Director, All Pensions Group
• Christian Salbaing, Deputy Chairman, Hutchison Whampoa (Europe) Limited
• James Bardrick, Head of Citi º£½ÇÊÓƵ, Citi
• Tara McGeehan, º£½ÇÊÓƵ President, Conseillers en gestion et informatique (CGI) º£½ÇÊÓƵ and Australia
• Alain Carrier, Senior Managing Director & Head of International & Europe, CPP Investment Board
• Frank Appel, CEO, Deutsche Post DHL
• Sam Hockman, CEO Futures & The Public Sector, Engie
• Alison Kay, Managing Partner for Client Service º£½ÇÊÓƵ&I, Ernst and Young
• Chow Kiat Lim, CEO, GIC
• Marc Waters, Managing Director, º£½ÇÊÓƵ, Ireland, Middle East & Africa, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Alistair Dormer, Executive Vice President, Hitachi
• Mark Tucker, Group Chairman, HSBC
• Ignacio S. Galan, Chairman & CEO, Iberdrola Energy
• Georgiana (JoJo) de Noronha, President Northern Europe, The Kraft Heinz Company
• Nigel Wilson, CEO, Legal and General
• Paul Livingston, CEO, Lockheed Martin º£½ÇÊÓƵ
• Shemara Wikramanayake, CEO, Macquarie Group
• Dr Anish Shah, Managing Director and CEO, Mahindra Group
• Mohamed Mansour, Founder and Chairman, Man Capital
• Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice Chancellor, The University of Manchester / Chair of the Russell Group of Universities
• Julia Prescot, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Meridiam
• Hirohiko Miyata, Chief Representative of Europe Bloc; Managing Director of Mitsui & Co. Europe PLC, Mitsui & Co. Europe PLC
• Clare Woodman, CBE, Head of EMEA and CEO, Morgan Stanley
• Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi, Deputy Group CEO (Alternative Investments and Infrastructure), Mubadala Investment Company
• Stefano Agostini, CEO, º£½ÇÊÓƵ & Ireland, Nestle
• Jason Goodall, Board member and former Global CEO, NTT Ltd
• Alexis Dormandy, CEO, Oxford Sciences Innovation
• Annette King, CEO º£½ÇÊÓƵ and Chair: Creative Industries Trade and Investment Board (CITIB), Publicis Groupe º£½ÇÊÓƵ
• Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath, CEO, RWE Renewables
• William Vereker, Chair, Santander º£½ÇÊÓƵ
• Liv Garfield, CBE, CEO, Severn Trent Water
• Carl Ennis, CEO, Siemens GB&I
• Jon Parr, President Global Crop Protection, Syngenta
• Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons, Tata Sons
• Allison Kirkby, President and CEO, Telia Company AB
• Eva Lindholm, Group Managing Director, Head of Wealth Management º£½ÇÊÓƵ and Jersey, UBS
• Robin Watson, CBE, CEO, Wood

Jojo de Noronha, President Kraft Heinz Northern Europe, said: "I am hugely supportive of the purpose behind the º£½ÇÊÓƵ Investment Council.

"With three manufacturing sites in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ, including Europe’s largest food factory based in Wigan, we continue to make multimillion-pound investments in state-of-the-art manufacturing to support our growth as well as our ESG commitments.