Marcus Agius

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Marcus Ambrose Paul Agius (born 22 July 1946) is a British financier and businessman, currently chairman of the London branch of investment bank Lazard and non-executive chairman of BAA plc. He is Chairman-designate of Barclays.

He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, and gained an MA at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in Mechanical Sciences and Economics. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Agius has been Chairman of BAA plc since 2002. He has been a non-executive Director of Barclays since 1 September 2006, and will succeed Matthew Barrett as Chairman from 1 January 2007, whereupon he will relinquish his responsibilities at Lazard. He has been appointed a senior non-executive director on the BBC's new executive board.

He is married to Katherine (born 1949), daughter of Edmund de Rothschild of the Rothschild banking family of England, with two children, and has a close involvement with the Rothschild family estate, Exbury Gardens in Hampshire.