Christine Tacon CBE
Member Nominated Director
Elected as a Member Nominated Director on 18 May 2024
Committee membership
• Risk and Audit Committee
Skills and experience
Christine is a Chartered Engineer and an environmentalist with a wealth of commercial expertise and experience. Christine has held many positions at Board level, most recently, as the Chair of Assured Food Standards who operate the Red Tractor Assurance scheme.
During her career, Christine has held positions at Mars and Fonterra; New Zealand’s dairy Co-op and she also led the Co-op’s farming business, the UK’s largest at the time. She has served as a Non-Executive Director for organisations including the Met Office, and the Natural Environment Research Council. Christine was also appointed as the first Groceries Code Adjudicator, responsible for regulating the supermarket sector to ensure fair treatment for suppliers.
Christine is currently the Chair of MDS Ltd, a 2-year management training scheme in the food industry for graduates; and the Chair of the BBC Rural Affairs Committee. She is also a trustee of the Farmers Club Charitable Trust and runs the network, ‘Women in Food and Farming’.
Christine was awarded the CBE in 2004 for her services to Agriculture.