The former chair of the BBC Trust Rona Fairhead has been appointed as an international trade minister with a life peerage, Downing Street has announced. Fairhead was the chair of HSBC’s audit committee when the bank admitted to “past compliance and control failures” in the group, after it was mired in a tax avoidance row.
— source theguardian.com 2017-10-10
She was also, the director of HSBC which she carried on doing even when she was at the BBC. whistleblower Nicholas Wilson brought HSBC issues in public.