Appointed February 2023
Lord Carter was educated at Brentwood School and Durham University, from which he joined an investment bank as a trainee. In 1985 he founded Westminster Health Care, which he built into a leading provider of care to the elderly, those with special needs and radiology services.
Chair of Sport England from 2002-06, board member of the London 2012 Olympic bid, a Member of HM Treasury’s Productivity Panel and a non-executive member of the Home Office and Prison’s board, he has also chaired a number of challenging Government reviews, including Criminal Records Bureau, Offenders Management, the Procurement of Legal Aid, Commonwealth Games, Wembley Stadium, National Athletics, Public Diplomacy, Pathological Services and the HMRC Review of Online Services.
He has served on the Boards of the US and UK healthcare, insurance and technology companies and most recently as a Non-Executive Director on the Board for NHS Improvement.
Made a Life Peer in 2004, Lord Carter has sat on a wide variety of Committees in the House of Lords.
He is currently Chair of the Primary Insurance Group, Health Services Laboratories, Glenholme Healthcare Group and Freehold Corporation.
He is an active farmer in Hertfordshire.