Sir James Wates CBE

Sir James is Chairman of Family Business UK, Chairman of Vestey Holdings Ltd, Chairman of Tewke, and on the Board of The King’s Trust 50th Anniversary Campaign. Previous positions have included Chairman of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), Chairman of the Building Research Establishment (BRE) Trust, Co-chair of the trade association Build UK, and Co-chair of the government-sponsored Infrastructure Exports UK. In 2018 he was appointed by the government to chair the coalition group developing The Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies (the so-called ‘Wates Principles’). In 2012 he was awarded the CBE and in 2019 was knighted for services to business and to charity.