Holcim Ltd - Lord Norman Fowler

British national, born February 2, 1938, member of the Board of Directors, elected until 2009. Lord Fowler attended Trinity Hall College in Cambridge. He worked as a journalist at “The Times”. From 1970 to 2001, he was a member of the British parliament. During this time, he held a number of ministerial posts and was a member of Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet (1979–1990) when he was, in turn, Transport Secretary, Social Services Secretary and Employment Secretary. Before he became Chairman of Aggregate Industries in 2000, he had been a non-executive director of Bardon group and then of Aggregate Industries upon its creation in 1997. In 2001, he was made a life peer. He has also been Chairman of the British regional newspaper groups Midland Independent Newspaper and Regional Independent Media and a Board member of a number of other UK companies. He was elected to the Board of Directors of Holcim Ltd in 2006.