Guardian Media Group (GMG) is pleased to announce that Yasmin Jetha has joined the GMG board as a non-executive director, with immediate effect.
Yasmin is currently a non-executive director of The Royal Bank of Scotland and Nation Media Group (East Africa), as well as being an independent panel member of the Cabinet Office Major Projects Review Group. Yasmin previously held Chief Information Officer roles at Bupa and the Financial Times, where she subsequently became the Chief Operating Officer.
Neil Berkett, chair of GMG, said:
“Yasmin has had a first-rate career encompassing leadership roles in a number of world-leading businesses. As GMG continues to evolve, her experience in organisations undergoing digital transformation, in the media and other sectors, will complement the expertise of our other board members.”
Yasmin Jetha said:
“I am delighted to join the Guardian Media Group board. The Guardian has always been responsive to its readership and has, as C P Scott wrote in 1921, both a moral as well as a material existence. Its role now is as vital as ever in helping readers interpret a world increasingly driven by technological advances. I look forward to playing my part in enabling the management team to continue to fulfil its mission.”
GMG is wholly owned by The Scott Trust Limited, which exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity.
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Notes to editors
Current GMG Board Members:
Neil Berkett - chair
David Pemsel
Katharine Viner
Alex Graham - chair of the Scott Trust
Jennifer Duvalier
Nigel Morris
John Paton
Baroness Gail Rebuck
Coram Williams
Richard Kerr
Yasmin Jetha biographical details
Yasmin Jetha is currently a non-executive director of The Royal Bank of Scotland, Nation Media Group (East Africa) and an independent panel member of the Cabinet Office Major Projects Review Group. During her executive career, Yasmin held Chief Information Officer roles at Bupa and the Financial Times, where she became the Chief Operating Officer. She previously had a career spanning nearly 20 years at Abbey National PLC, latterly serving as an Executive Director on the board.
Yasmin holds a masters degree in Management Science from Imperial College, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Leicester in 2005, and was made an honorary Fellow of the University of Bedfordshire in 2011.
About Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group (GMG) is amongst the UK’s leading media organisations. Its core business is Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of theguardian.com, one of the largest English-speaking quality newspaper websites in the world. In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week and the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer.
GMG has also built an endowment fund, which includes the proceeds from its disposal of its holdings in Trader Media Group in 2014 and Ascential plc in 2016-17. The sole purpose of the fund is to secure the editorial independence and financial security of the Guardian in perpetuity. The business conduct of the Group is guided by The Scott Trust values.
