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Paul Myners, Baron Myners, CBE (born 1 April 1948) is a British Businessman and politician. He was the Financial Services Secretary (sometimes referred to as City Minister) in HM Treasury, the UK's finance ministry, during the Labour Government of Gordon Brown.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paul Myners CBE )〕 He held the position from October 2008 until May 2010, and was made a life peer in consequence of his appointment, as he was not an elected Member of Parliament. He also served on the Prime Minister's National Economic Council. Myners has worked in the financial sector since 1974. He has also held a number of third sector posts, including Chairman of the Trustees of Tate and Chairman of the Low Pay Commission, all of which he relinquished on his ministerial appointment. Immediately prior to his ministerial appointment he was Chairman of the Guardian Media Group, publisher of ''The Guardian'' and ''The Observer'' newspapers, and chairman of Land Securities Group, the largest quoted property company in Europe at that time. He is a former Chairman of Marks & Spencer and Deputy Chairman of PowerGen. ==Background and personal life== Paul Myners was adopted at an early age by a Cornish family, and grew up in Truro.〔 His adopted father was a self-employed butcher and his mother a hairdresser.〔 He attended Truro School, an independent Methodist college, on a scholarship. He graduated from the University of London, with a First Class Honours degree in Education and a Certificate in Education (teaching qualification), and became a secondary school teacher in Wandsworth with the Inner London Education Authority (1971–72).〔 He left teaching after two years and joined ''The Daily Telegraph'' as a financial journalist moving into the financial sector in 1974 as a junior portfolio manager at N M Rothschild & Sons.〔 Although his political views are not well known, ''The Independent'' reported that "a Labour Cabinet insider" said of him that "for a City grandee he has a genuine instinct for social justice."〔(Paul Myners: Man with a plan ) ''The Independent'', 11 October 2008〕 Myners has never donated to the Labour Party, but in 2007 he gave £12,700 to Gordon Brown's leadership campaign.〔 He is married to Alison Macleod, who is Chair of the Institute of Contemporary Art and a former Chair of the Contemporary Art Society and Trustee of The Royal Academy Trust.〔(Paul Myners CBE ) HM Treasury Ministerial Profiles, retrieved 23 February 2009〕 He has a residence near Falmouth, Cornwall.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Myners, Baron Myners」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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