Babcock International Group PLC announced the appointment of Ruth Cairnie to succeed Mike Turner CBE, Chair of Babcock. Ruth Cairnie will initially join the Board as a Non-Executive Director and will assume the role of Chair on Mike Turner's retirement at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 18 July 2019 after 11 years in the role. Ruth Cairnie has extensive experience of the engineering sector, gained from a 37-year international career spanning senior functional and line roles at Royal Dutch Shell plc, including Executive Vice President for Group Strategy & Planning. She is currently the Senior Independent Director of Associated British Foods plc and a Non-Executive Director of Rolls Royce Holdings plc and ContourGlobal plc. Ruth Cairnie is the Chair of POWERful Women, an initiative to advance gender diversity within the energy sector. She has experience of advising government departments on strategic development and capability building.