Dr John Allwood (Economics & Statistics, 1973; Hon LLD, 2005)

Non-Exec Director, Talk Talk & Carphone Warehouse, Trustee, The Pepper Foundation

ANG Role: Council Member

Having trained as a chartered accountant, I spent eleven years at News International Group, and after a couple of years at Microtel, the forerunner of Orange, joined the Mirror Group in 1992 as Finance Director, becoming Chief Executive in 1999 and overseeing its merger with Trinity plc in 2000.

Later that year I was appointed UK Chief Executive of Orange, the company I first joined in 1991, spending four years running one of the UK’s largest mobile networks.

Between 2005 and 2007 I was Managing Director of Telegraph Media Group before joining Mecom plc, a pan European Newspaper company. Since leaving Mecom in 2009 I have been pursuing a portfolio career and I am currently a Non-Executive Director of Talk Talk plc and Carphone Warehouse plc. I chair a small regional newspaper group in Scotland and am a charity trustee as well as being a member of University Council.

I’ve been a member of the University of Exeter’s Council and Alumni Network Group since 2006.