Chris Grigg

Chris Grigg is chief executive of the British Land Company.

Career

From his biography on British Land's website:

Chris Grigg joined British Land as Chief Executive in January 2009. He was Chief Executive of Barclays Commercial Bank until November 2008, having joined the bank in 2005 as Group Treasurer. Prior to Barclays, he held a broad range of leadership positions at Goldman Sachs, where his career spanned 20 years. He rose to partner of Goldman Sachs, working principally in its capital markets and derivatives business. Chris is a member of the Executive Board of the European Public Real Estate Association. In July 2011 he was appointed Vice President of the British Property Federation and becomes President in 2012.

Views

Grigg was one of 30 powerful businessman to have signed an open letter to chancellor George Osborne in November 2011 urging him to speed up plans to axe the 50 per cent tax rate on people who earn more than £150,000, to help protect the UK economy from the eurozone crisis.

“We await the conclusions of the HM Revenue and Customs evaluation of the sums raised by the 50 per cent rate; however, we are confident that the cost to the Treasury, if any, in the short term will not be material and that the advantages over the life of this parliament in terms of generally increased economic activity will more than outweigh any direct costs.”