British Airways’ serving chair and CEO will take a seat on the board of Marks and Spencer Group with effect from 1 December this year.

The Unilever veteran, currently senior independent director of Haleon, will take over the role from Sir Dave Lewis on 1 January 2026.

Bullard takes over the role of non-executive chair of the sensing and software company’s board with immediate effect.

The dean of Columbia Business School will join the board of the global learning company from the beginning of November.

The former Twitter global VP of advertising sales will bring his media expertise to the role of chair at the AI video discovery company.

The former Russell Reynolds CEO takes his seat on the board of British American Tobacco with effect from 1 November.

The former chair of Centrica and AXA UK will join L&G’s board in January, the intention being for him to succeed Sir John Kingman in May.

The Dutch banking veteran has joined the board as an independent non-executive director with immediate effect.

The chair and CEO of Merck Group will become an independent non-executive director of Unilever with effect from 13 May next year.

Luersman, chief HR officer of Walgreens Inc, will take her seat on the board of the tobacco company on 12 January 2026.