Terry Le Sueur
As minister for treasury and resources, Terry Le Sueur is at the heart of the most radical changes to have taken place in Jersey’s tax system since the war. An accountant by profession, he was first elected to the States in 1987 as a deputy, and was re-elected in three subsequent elections. In 1999 he achieved an all-island mandate as senator and was re-elected in 2005. He spent 12 years at the head of the States’ employment and social security department and during that time instigated major reforms in the areas of pensions, employment law and income support. Now retired from business, Mr Le Sueur spent 25 years as senior partner of a medium-sized local firm of chartered accountants which he founded in 1975. The firm is now called Grant Thornton, Le Sueur Ireson & Co. As treasury minister, Mr Le Sueur has taken a very cautious approach to States finances and although he is sometimes accused of being a “tax and spend” minister, he has consistently built up the island’s rainy-day reserves.
Mike Liston
Mike Liston joined Jersey Electricity (JEC), the partly government-owned power utility, in 1986 as chief engineer and became chief executive in 1993. As such he has been the principle architect of an energy strategy that has successfully avoided problems faced by many UK utility companies. The company’s heavy investment in high-voltage submarine connections to the European continent has allowed oil-fired power production in Jersey and neighbouring Guernsey to be displaced by cheaper, carbon-free nuclear and hydro power. This has provided energy security and is on course to helping the island’s meet their emissions targets. Recently awarded an OBE for services to the energy industry, Mr Liston is expected to step down from the JEC next year to concentrate on his non-executive commitments, which include chairmanship of Jersey’s postal utility and of Renewable Energy Generation, a rapidly expanding Aim-listed renewable energy business. In 2002 he was appointed chairman of the Jersey Appointments Commission by the States of Jersey.
