Sir John Oliver Frank Kingman KCB FRS FMedSci (born 24 April 1969) has been Chair of Legal & General PLC since 2016.
In 2018, he undertook a highly critical review of the Financial Reporting Council, recommending wholesale reform of the FRC and ending self-regulation of the major audit firms.
Kingman led on liberalising the annuity market and creating the National Infrastructure Commission; he negotiated Greater Manchester's devolution deal, introducing an elected Mayor.
Earlier, he was responsible for a fundamental overhaul of the UK competition regime (2001 Enterprise Act), and introducing the Highly Skilled Migrants’ Programme.
He was a Trustee of the Royal Opera House, 2014-21, and has been a member of the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology, the Trilateral Commission, the Global Advisory Committee for the Centre for Corporate Reputation at Oxford University, and the Development Board for the £37m renewal of St-Martin-in-the-Fields.