Barnaby Nicholas Swire (born January 1964) is a British

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultr ...

businessman. He is the chairman of the

Swire Group Swire Group ( zh, t=太古集團) is a highly diversified global conglomerate with its parent company being John Swire & Sons Limited that holds controlling stakes in a range of businesses trading in the UK, USA, Australia, Papua New Guinea, ...

Early life

Barnaby Swire was born in January 1964. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College ( ) is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing boarding school, boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated Prime Mini ...

. He is a son of the late Sir John Anthony Swire, chairman of the

between 1966 and 1987 and life president of John Swire & Sons Ltd. He studied history and modern languages at

University College, Oxford University College, formally The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University commonly called University College in the University of Oxford and colloquially referred to as "Univ", is a Colleges of the University of Oxf ...

, leaving in 1985.

Career

Swire started his career at the family business, John Swire & Sons, in 1985. He worked for them in Hong Kong,

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

and Japan. He transferred to London in 1994, where he continued to work for the Swire Group. He served on the board of directors of Lewmar Marine.Barnaby N. Swire
''Bloomberg Business'' He has served as the chairman of the Swire Group since the end of 2014, when he replaced James Hughes-Hallett.Ben Butler
Changing of the guard at Swire
''The Australian'', 20 January 2015 He was chairman of The China Navigation Company Ltd., until 2019. Following his father's death in November 2016, he is now a billionaire.

Personal life

He is married and has four children. They reside in

Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

. Swire is a significant donor to the Conservative Party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Swire, Barnaby Living people 1964 births Businesspeople from Kent British people of English descent People educated at Eton College Alumni of University College, Oxford British billionaires Barnaby Conservative Party (UK) donors