Ken Clarke

Mr. Clarke was UK Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1997 and was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Rushcliffe in the 1970 - a seat he has retained to this day.
His career in the House has been long and diverse.
After the general election of 1979, he was a junior Minister in the Department of Transport before being appointed Minister for Health in 1982.
Mr. Clarke joined the Cabinet in 1985 as Paymaster General and Minister for Employment, and following the 1987 general election, became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for Trade & Industry.
He subsequently held the posts of Secretary of State for Health, Education & Science and Home Office before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer in May 1993, a position he held until the general election of May 1997.
He was previously Deputy Chairman of British American Tobacco and Alliance Unichem.
He has been a director of Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust along with Independent News and Media Limited., and has served as an advisor to Centaurus Capital.
He is currently on the board of Agcapita GP Corp.
Educated at Nottingham High School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Mr. Clarke became interested in politics when he was President of Cambridge Union.
A barrister-at-law and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1980, he was elected Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in the 1970 General Election and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1997.
Mr. Clarke first came across British American Tobacco early in Margaret Thatcher's government.