Marcus Ambrose Paul Agius (born 22 July 1946) is a British

United Kingdom

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 financier

Financier

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 and businessman, currently the Chairman of Barclays. He has also been appointed the senior non-executive director on the BBC

BBC

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's new executive board.

Biography

He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge

St George's College, Weybridge

St George's College, Weybridge is an independent mixed Roman Catholic co-educational day school in Surrey, England. It had historically been an all-boys' boarding school. The first girls entered the 6th Form in the 1960s and the school decided to take girls at age 11 in 1998...

, and gained an MA

Master of Arts (Oxbridge)

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 at Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

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 in Mechanical Sciences and Economics

Economics

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. In addition, he has an MBA from Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

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Agius has been a non-executive Director of Barclays since 1 September 2006, and succeeded Matthew Barrett

Matthew Barrett

Matthew William Barrett, is an Irish Canadian banker who until 2006 was the Chairman of Barclays Bank.Born in County Kerry, Ireland, he attended the Christian Brothers School in Kells, County Meath, and attended the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Programme in 1981.He started his...

 as Chairman from 1 January 2007. His current salary is £750,000.
He was previously chairman of the London

London

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 branch of investment bank Lazard

Lazard

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 and non-executive chairman of BAA Limited.

He is married to Katherine (born 1949), daughter of Edmund de Rothschild

Edmund Leopold de Rothschild

Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, CBE, TD was an English financier, a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England, and a recipient of the Victoria Medal of Honour , given by the Royal Horticultural Society....

 of the Rothschild banking family of England

Rothschild banking family of England

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, with two children, and has a close involvement with the Rothschild family estate, Exbury Gardens

Exbury Gardens

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 in Hampshire

Hampshire

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