Michael Bett

Sir Michael Bett, CBE is a retired English business executive, personnel manager and public servant.
Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Bett became director of industrial relations at the Engineering Employers' Federation in 1970; he was subsequently personnel director at General Electric and the BBC, before moving to British Telecom where he held a series of management roles before becoming managing director BTUK in 1988 and then deputy chairman in 1991 ; he was also chairman of the telecommunications company Cellnet, a joint venture between BT and the security firm Securicor.
Bett was appointed chairman of the Nurses Pay Review Body, the Social Security Advisory Committee and the Armed Forces [Independent Review of Manpower]. He left those posts in 1995, the year he was appointed First [Civil Service Commissioner]; he remained in office until 2000. Alongside a number of other directorships, he was also chairman of the Inspectorate of the Security Industry from 1994 to 2007, a higher education pay review in the late 1990s, and the Pensions Protection and Investment Accreditation Board from 2000 to 2006. Having been Pro-Chancellor of Aston University since 1993, he served as Chancellor from 2004 to 2011. Bett was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 New Year Honours, and was knighted in the 1995 Birthday Honours for "services to training and personnel management".