Andrew Currie

Andrew Christopher Currie is a British billionaire businessman and a director of chemical company Ineos. According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, Currie is the 23rd wealthiest person in the UK with a net worth of £6.1 billion, a decrease of £600 million from 2018.

  • Andrew Currie has been a director at chemicals giant Ineos since 1999, a year after the company was founded by fellow billionaire James Ratcliffe.
  • The Cambridge University natural sciences grad started his career at BP Chemicals, spending 15 years in technical and managerial roles.
  • He later became a director at Inspec Group, the former parent company of Ineos, which now produces everything from agro-bio fuels to adhesives.
  • Ineos has been aggressively expanding into shale, amassing access to over a million acres of exploration areas in the U.K. since 2014.
  • Currie derives most of his fortune from his minority stake in Ineos.

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