Rod Eddington

Rod Eddington

Rod Eddington was appointed Chief Executive of British Airways on May 2 2000.

Born in1950 in Perth, Western Australia, Rod was educated at the University of Western Australia and Lincoln College, Oxford University (the 1974 Rhodes Scholar from Western Australia). He completed a D Phil in the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford, and then taught as research lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1978-79.

In 1979 he joined The Swire Group and worked with Cathay Pacific Airways in Hong Kong, Korea and Japan in a variety of roles, before being appointed Deputy Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer in 1990 and Managing Director in early 1992. He left The Swire Group at the end of 1996 to return to Australia.

In January 1997 News Limited appointed him as Executive Chairman of Ansett Airlines in Melbourne. He held that post until April 2000 when News sold its 50% share in Ansett. He remains on the Boards of News Corp and John Swire & Sons Pty Ltd. In October 2001 he became Chairman of the EU Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

Rod Eddington is married with two young children. He enjoys cricket, Australian rules football, rugby and bridge.

Rod also got cricket and football Blues at UWA, played a lot of cricket for Oxford University (but did not get a Blue).


Rod Eddington will be our guest speaker at the next HR Directors Club breakfast briefing. For more details on this event please go to the event page.

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