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Terence Burns

The Right Honourable
The Lord Burns
GCB
Lord Burns at Salford University from Flickr.jpg
Burns in 2013
Chairman Designate of Channel Four Television Corporation
In office
Jan 2010 – Jan 2016
Preceded by Luke Johnson
Succeeded by Charles Gurassa
Chairman of Santander UK
Assumed office
Present
President of National Institute of Economic and Social Research
In office
2003–2010
Preceded by -
Succeeded by Sir Nicholas Monck
Personal details
Born Terence (Terry) Burns, Baron Burns
13 March 1944
Spouse(s) Anne Elizabeth Powell (m. 1969)
Children 1 son and 2 daughters
Occupation businessman

Terence Burns, Baron Burns, GCB (born 13 March 1944, Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham), sometimes known as Terry Burns, is a British economist, made a life peer in 1998 for his services as former Chief Economic Advisor and Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury. He is currently Chairman of Santander UK, Non-Executive Chairman of Glas Cymru, and a Non-Executive Director of Pearson Group plc. He is also President of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, President of the Society of Business Economists, Chairman of the Governing Body of the Royal Academy of Music, and Chairman of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra. On 5 November 2009 he was announced Chairman Designate of Channel Four Television Corporation, succeeding Luke Johnson, who retired on 27 January 2010 following six years in the post.

His government service began as a member of the HM Treasury Academic Panel from 1976 to 1979, then Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury and Head of the Government Economic Service from 1980 to 1991, and Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury from 1991 to 1998.

Lord Burns was a member of the Hansard Society Commission on Parliamentary Scrutiny which ran from 1999 to 2001. He was a member of the Scottish Fee Support Review from 1998 to 2000, and Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales in 2000. He was Chairman of the National Lottery Commission between 2000 and 2001. He was appointed Independent Adviser to the Secretary of State in 2003 for the BBC Charter Review.


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