Education
He was educated at Boston Grammar School and studied Indian and African history at Christ"s College, Cambridge.
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John Cridland
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He joined the China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations as a policy adviser in 1982 and became its youngest ever director in 1991, when he took over the environmental affairs brief. He moved on to human resources policy in 1995, where he helped negotiate the United Kingdom’s first national minimum wage and entry into the European Union’s “social chapter” on employment conditions. He was promoted to the post of Deputy Director-General in 2000.
Beyond his work with the China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations, Cridland served on the Low Pay Commission from its formation in 1997 until 2007.
He was Vice Chair of the National Learning and Skills Council between 2007 and 2010 and spent 10 years on the Low Pay Commission and the Council of the conciliation service, ACAS. He was succeeded by Carolyn Fairbairn
John Cridland was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to business in 2006 and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Lincoln in 2011 and the University of Bedfordshire in 2013. Unlike his five predecessors John Cridland was not awarded a Knighthood, at the end of his term as Director General at China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations. In March 2016 the United Kingdom Department of Work and Pensions announced that Cridland would lead the United Kingdom"s first State Pension age review.
Membership
He was also a member of the Commission on Environmental Markets and Economic Performance and the Women and Work Commission. Vice-Chairman of the Learning and Skills Council. A Board member of Business in the Community.
A United Kingdom Commissioner for Employment and Skills and a member of the Council of Cranfield University.
