Kieran Poynter

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Kieran Poynter joined the Board of British American Tobacco (BAT) in 2010, after a long career with accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.12

Advisor to UK Chancellor in Wake of Lost Personal Data Scandal in 2007

In November 2007, Poynter was appointed advisor to the then UK chancellor Alistair Darling, in the wake of a scandal that saw Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) lose two CDs with personal data of 25 million people.3 Poynter led a seven month investigation that reviewed HMRC procedures, and concluded that there were “serious institutional deficiencies” at HMRC, but that there was “no evidence of misconduct or criminality by any member of the HMRC”.4

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  1. ↑British American Tobacco, Meet the Board: Kieran Poynter, undated, accessed November 2017
  2. ↑R. Davies, How big tobacco has survived death and taxes, The Guardian, 12 July 2017, accessed November 2017
  3. ↑D. Summers, A. Stratton, Brown apologises for data blunder, The Guardian, 21 November 2007, accessed November 2017
  4. ↑R. Winnett, Government’s data handling ‘woefully inadequate’, The Telegraph, 25 June 2008, accessed November 2017

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