Gerry Acher
Gerry Acher was a member of the Board of KPMG and Senior Partner of its London office until the end of 2001. He was also chairman of the RSA until 2009.
He champions issues on sustainability, climate change, corporate social responsibilities ethical, diversity and educational agendas He is Deputy Chairman of Camelot Group plc where he also chairs the Advisory Panel on Social Responsibility.
He assumed the Chair of Camelot on an interim basis in Spring 2004 handing over in the autumn of that year to Sir Peter Middleton. He was previously a non-executive director of BPB and was actively involved in defending the company, as a member of the defence committee, against the hostile bid from St. Gobain.
He chairs a London Mayor Commission to consider whether London should have a major international convention centre. He chairs the London Climate Change Partnership that advises on how London should be adapting to living with the results of a changing climate.
He was a member of the Government's Advisory Committee for Business and the Environment (ACBE) 2000-2004 and is a member of its successor task force on Sustainable Production and Consumption.
He is Vice-Chairman of Motability and Chairman of its Oversight Committee; the charity which helps disabled people become mobile; he was awarded the CBE in the 1999 Birthday Honours for his work in this area. This charity overseas the operating company leasing some 400,000 cars to disabled people.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of Heart of the City and recently took over as Chairman under Lord George's presidency. He is a Trustee of the KPMG Foundation.
He was a Deputy Chairman of London First and now a member of its President's Committee and has initiated a number of important business/social projects. He leads a number of business initiatives with the Metropolitan Police Service that include a major business mentoring project involving the majority of the 32 Borough Commanders around London. He was Treasurer and member of the Steering Group for The Queen's Golden Jubilee Weekend Trust that was primarily responsible for overseeing the Central London celebrations under the direction of Lord Sterling over the long bank holiday weekend of June 2002 for which he was made a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order.
He is Chairman of the Cobham Conservation and Heritage Trust and is Chairman of the Aston Martin Heritage Trust. He was Founding Chairman of the Audit Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales from its inception in 1996 until 2001 and a Council Member for that period. He was Master of the Livery Company of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales for 2003-2004.
He is married with two adult sons and, with his wife Joyce, enjoys opera, mountain and hill walking and rallying pre-war and classic cars. He rallied a 1.5 litre 1932 Aston Martin from Peking to Paris - some 10,000 miles over the Himalayas in 1997 - and is repeating this rally in 2007 through the Gobi Desert and Mongolia this time with his wife as co-driver and in a 1931 Model 'A' Ford June 2006.
Contact Gerry via RSAFellowship.com
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