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IHG names new chair as Cescau retires

IHG Hotels and Resorts chair Patrick Cescau is retiring later this year and will be replaced by former Whitbread non-executive director Deanna Oppenheimer.

Oppenheimer will join on 1 June as chair designate and will take over on 1 September, the day after Cescau retires.

Cescau has been in the role since 2013. Oppenheimer has had a long career in banking and had a number of senior roles at Barclays. She currently sits on the board of Thomson Reuters Corporation.