Michael Hodgkinson

Sir Michael Stewart Hodgkinson (born 7 April 1944) is a British business man.

Early life

The son of Stewart Gordon Hodgkinson and his wife Ruth Phyllis Pentelow, Hodgkinson was born in 1944,^[1] while his father was serving as a junior officer in the Royal Artillery.^[2] A few months later, his father transferred as a Lieutenant to the Essex Regiment.^[3]

He was educated at Hornchurch Grammar School and the University of Nottingham, graduating BA in Industrial Economics in 1965. He went on to qualify as an accountant in 1969.^[1][4]

Career

Hodgkinson's first significant role was as managing director of Land Rover-Range Rover from 1978 to 1983. In 1986, he was appointed as Chief Executive of Grand Metropolitan’s European Food Division and in 1992 as Group Airports Director at BAA plc.^[4] He was chief executive of Heathrow Airport Holdings from 1999 to 2003, in which year he was knighted.^[5][1] He was next Non-Executive Chairman of Post Office Limited.^[6]

In 2007, as chairman of First Choice, Hodgkinson took it into a merger with the German company TUI, which controlled Thomson Holidays.^[7] He was elected to the supervisory board of TUI Group and became its vice-chairman, and was still serving in that position in 2016.^[8]

Hodgkinson went on to serve as Chairman of Keolis UK Ltd from December 2011 to 2019.^[1][9] In May 2018, the Wales & Borders franchise was awarded to KeolisAmey Wales, which received a contract valued at £5 billion covering a 15-year period starting on 14 October 2018.^[10]

Until 2013, when he was replaced by Daniel Moylan, Hodgkinson was the Transport for London nominee as a non-executive director of Crossrail.^[11]

Personal life

In 1988, Hodgkinson married Elspeth Holman, the daughter of Michael Holman and Dorothy Napier, and they have a son and two daughters.^[1] They live in the St Katharine Docks area of the East End of London.