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UK Government Investments

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UK Government Investments Limited
Company typeState owned holding company
Predecessors
Founded1 April 2016; 8 years ago (2016-04-01)
Headquarters
London
,
England
Key people
M. S. Banga (Chairman)
ParentHM Treasury
Websitewww.ukgi.org.uk Edit this at Wikidata

UK Government Investments (UKGI) is a company owned by the Government of the United Kingdom which combines the former functions of the Shareholder Executive and UK Financial Investments. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London.[1]

UKGI manages a portfolio of 17 businesses, including NatWest Group and Channel Four Television Corporation.[2][3]

M. S. Banga is the chairman and Charles Donald is the chief executive.

List of companies

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As of July 2024, the public sector and state owned enterprises, wholly or partially owned, which the UKGI works with are:[4]

Senior leadership

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List of former chairmen

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  1. Robert Swannell (2016–2021)[7]

List of former chief executives

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  1. Mark Russell (2016–2019), who had been deputy chief executive at the Shareholder Executive since 2008 and chief executive of that body from 2013 until its merger into UKGI.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "UK Government Investments Limited". Companies House.
  2. ^ "Our Partner Bodies". Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  3. ^ Wearden, Graeme; Fletcher, Nick; Partington, Richard (4 June 2018). "UK government to sell £2.6bn of RBS shares, Brexit hits UK construction- as it happened". The Guardian.
  4. ^ "What we do - Governance". UK Government Investments.
  5. ^ "Co-op sets up Reclaim Fund". The Business Desk. 29 March 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Vindi Banga appointed as new Chair of UK Government Investments". UK Government Investments. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Robert Swannell". GOV.UK. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  8. ^ Johnstone, Richard (25 June 2020). "Shareholder stories: ex-UKGI chief Mark Russell on life as Whitehall's corporate governance guru". Civil Service World. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
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