David, who is Chairman of the Financial Times Group, has been a Director of Pearson since 1996. He was previously Chief Executive of The Financial Times. In 1998, he was appointed Pearson's Director for People.
He is Chairman of Sadler's Wells, the Millennium Bridge Trust, Common Purpose Europe, Crisis and the International Youth Foundation; a non-executive director of Vitec Group and the Windmill Partnership; a patron of the Ambache Chamber Orchestra; and a member of the Development Board of the National Theatre.
David is due to step down as a Commissioner in the summer of 2007.
