The disruption to Heathrow caused by fire last week raises wider questions over risk management and corporate governance.

Wood will join the board of the global provider to the aerospace and defence market in October as an independent non-executive director.

The National Grid CFO has become an independent non-executive director of the global engineering business.

Despite the growth in data analytics and AI, human intervention will always be essential, a recent webinar heard.

Jacqui Ferguson will become an independent non-executive director of the energy company on 1 January 2024.

Mackay is to leave GSK at the end of 2023 and become an independent non-executive director of Schroders next year.

Mackay is chief financial officer at pharmaceutical company GSK and is a former group finance director at HSBC Holdings.

Robinson is general counsel of asset management company Vanguard, and previously held positions at Deloitte, American Express and Citi.

Chair Paula Rosput Reynolds says the appointments “bring new depths of UK and US business and regulatory experience to the board”.

The former UK minister for trade and investment was once the youngest FTSE 100 CFO and is a former BT group CEO.