Ian Plenderleith is chairman of BH Macro, a listed fund investing in the Brevan Howard hedge fund group, and a director of Sanlam, South Africa. He also acts as an advisor to a number of organisations, including the International Capital Markets Association, Central Banking Publications and the Invoice Clearing Bureau South Africa.

He is also Chair of the Risk Committee.

He is a governor of Reed’s School, a council member of the British Museum Friends, and serves on the advisory boards of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, the Actors Centre, Columbia Business School, New York, and Wits Business School, Johannesburg.

Previously, his career was in central banking. He served at the Bank of England from 1965 to 2002, where he was executive director responsible for market operations and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee. He also served at the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria from 2002 to 2005, where he was deputy governor and a member of the South African Monetary Policy Committee.