Sharon White leaves Ofcom to join John Lewis Partnership

Retail group appoints the 52-year-old as chairman on near-£1m salary John Lewis has appointed the chief executive of Ofcom as its new chairman, on a near-£1m salary.Sharon White, 52, joined the communications regulator in March 2015 from the Treasury, where she was a senior civil servant in charge of public finances. She is moving to one of the most high-profile jobs in British retail, overseeing the John Lewis department stores and the Waitrose supermarket chain at a time when tradi