John Carter (insurance executive)
Sir John Gordon Thomas Carter is a British businessman who was Chief Executive of Commercial Union from 1994 to 1998, and who is the current chairman of Life
Carter was educated at the City of Oxford High School and Jesus College, Oxford, obtaining a degree in mathematics. After National Service, he joined Commercial Union in 1961, and became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1966. He rose to the positions of Life Manager, Deputy General Manager, General Manager and Director before becoming Chief Executive in 1994. He stepped down from this post in 1998, the year in which he was knighted and made an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College. He was also a director of Credito Italiano and Canary Wharf Group. He has also been chairman of the management committee of the Motor Insurers' Bureau, Association of British Insurers, and the Policyholders Protection Board. He became a director of the National House Building Council in 1998 and has been chairman since 2002. He was a Governor of London Guildhall University from 1998 to 2002, serving as chairman from 1999 to 2002; when the university merged in 2002 with the University of North London to become London Metropolitan University, he was chairman of the merged university until 2006.
