Sir John Sparrow, FCA (4 June 1933 – 21 March 2020) was an English businessman, chartered accountant and government adviser.
Educated at the Stationers' Company's School he went on to London School of Economics (LSE),[1] he worked in the accountancy firm Rawlinson and Hunter from 1954 to 1959, before spells with Ford, AEI-Hotpoint and United Leasing Corporation in the early 1960s.
[2] Alongside directorships in other companies, he was chairman of the Universities Superannuation Scheme from 1988 to 1996,[2] the National Stud from 1988 to 1991 and the Horserace Betting Levy Board from 1991 to 1999.
[1] From 1982 to 1983, Sparrow was seconded as Director-General of the Central Policy Review Staff, a government advisory body based in the Cabinet Office.
[1] He was also a governor of LSE from 1984 to 2003 (serving as vice-chairman until 1993) and was made an honorary LSE fellow in 1994, and also held an honorary fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, from 1987.