Current Minister for Trade and Investment at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and at the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform

Digby served as Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the UK’s 'Voice of Business', from 2000 to 2006, where he regularly visited businesses in the UK and worldwide - taking their views back to those who make the rules. During his appointment he took the British business message to 70 different countries. He met on a regular basis political, business and media figures in the United Kingdom and around the world.

From 2006-2007 he advised Deloitte, Jaguar, JCB, Barclays Capital and CSC. In addition he was a private adviser to HRH the Duke of York and was the UK Government's Skills Envoy.

In 1998 Digby joined KPMG as vice chairman of Corporate Finance, acting as close adviser to many public companies across the United Kingdom and in KPMG’s global markets.

A law graduate from University College, London, after some time in the Royal Navy he joined Birmingham law firm Edge and Ellison in 1978, making partner in 1984, Deputy senior partner in 1990 and Senior Partner in 1995. He was involved in most of the MBO and M&A activity in the West Midlands in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Digby is a Fellow of University College London (2004); an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University (2004); and an Honorary Doctor of the University of Central England (2002), the University of Birmingham (2002), the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (2003), the University of Hertfordshire (2004), Middlesex University (2005), Sheffield Hallam University (2005), Aston University (2006), the University of Hull (2006), Queen’s University, Belfast (2006), Warwick University (2006), Bradford University (2006), Wolverhampton University (2006), University of Thames Valley (2006), Nottingham University and Loughborough University (2007). He is a visiting professor at the University of Hull Business School and Chairman of the Birmingham University Business School Advisory Board. Digby is also a Vice President of the Birmingham Civic Society.

Digby is a Corporate Ambassador for the Cancer Research UK Corporate Ambassadors and is a Fellow of UNICEF. He is also a non Executive Director of Leicester Tigers Rugby Club.

Digby is married to Pat and they divide their time between homes in Warwickshire and London. In his spare time he takes a keen interest in military history, having visited the sites of many famous battles throughout the world.

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