Sir John Leopold Egan DL FIC (born 7 November 1939) is a British industrialist, associated with businesses in the automotive, airports, construction and water industries.
[3] He studied petroleum engineering at Imperial College London and subsequently from 1962 to 1966 worked for Shell in the Middle East.
After a four-year spell as Corporate Parts Director of Massey Ferguson,[2] Egan was appointed chairman of Jaguar Cars in 1980, turning round what had been a struggling business.
A carmaker facing closure when he took over was sold ten years later to Ford for £1.6bn,[4] at which time (March 1990) Egan moved to become Chief Executive of BAA.
Egan then assumed a variety of non-executive business roles and served as president of the CBI from 2002 to 2004, when he took on the chairmanship of Midlands water company Severn Trent.