Ian Callum

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ian Callum
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Jul 30, 1954(1954-07-30)
Age	70
Birthplace	Dumfries
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Cancer

Ian Callum Biography

Ian Callum is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on July 30, 1954 in Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom. Designer of award-winning cars for Ford, Jaguar and Aston Martin. He was named Director of Jaguar Cars Design in 1999.

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Ian Callum CBE FRSE (born 30 July 1954) is a British car designer who has worked for Ford, TWR, Aston Martin, and in 1999 became the Director of Design for Jaguar Cars, which then merged into Jaguar Land Rover in 2013, a position he held until mid 2019. His younger brother Moray Callum is Vice President, Design, Ford Motor Company.

From 1979 to 1990 he was employed by Ford, working between Dunton, Japan, Italy and Australia, mainly on “bits of cars, mostly steering wheels”. As well as working on bread-and-butter Fiestas and Mondeos, he contributed to image builders such as the RS200 and Escort RS Cosworth, the last of which he is especially proud of and with which he collaborated with fellow RCA graduate Peter Horbury. He was then appointed Design Manager responsible for the Ghia Design Studio in Turin, where he worked on the Via, Zig and Zag show car concepts.

He is Moray Callum’s older brother and has been the Executive Director for Design for Ford.

Ian Callum Net Worth

Ian Callum is one of the richest Engineer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ian Callum 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received a Master’s Degree in Vehicle Design from London’s Royal College of Art.

Auto Express magazine awarded him the Person of the Year 2009 award for his work on Jaguar’s XK, XF, and XJ Jaguars models.

Callum was born in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1954. In 1968 (at the age of 14) he submitted a car design to Jaguar in the hope of landing a job. Callum studied at Lanchester Polytechnic’s (now Coventry University) School of Transportation Design in Coventry, Aberdeen Art College and the Glasgow School of Art, where he graduated with a degree in Industrial Design. He subsequently graduated from the Royal College of Art in London with a post-graduate master’s degree in Vehicle Design.

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With the next generation of Jaguar models Callum took Jaguar away from the Lawson-era retroism, which produced the more traditional-looking X-Type, S-Type, and XJ, towards a new style. This began with the 2006 XK, which bears striking similarity to the Aston Martin DB9, which Callum describes as being a result of modern safety legislation. This new direction continued with the 2008 XF as previewed by the concept C-XF, which Callum describes as the ‘next significant step forward’ in Jaguar’s design direction, and the 2010 XJ. He also oversaw the design for the 2010 C-X75 concept car, the 2012 refresh of the Jaguar XF and introduction of Sportbrake, the 2013 F-Type, the 2015 Jaguar XE, 2015 second generation Jaguar XF (the first Callum-led design to replace another Callum-led design), the 2016 Jaguar F-Pace, and the 2018 Jaguar I-Pace.

Facts & Trivia

Ian Ranked on the list of most popular Engineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ian Callum celebrates birthday on July 30 of every year.

In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

What cars did Ian Callum design?

• Ford RS200 (1984)
• Ford Escort Cosworth (1989)
• Aston Martin DB7 (1993)
• Nissan R390 (1997)
• Ford Puma (1997)
• Aston Martin Vanquish (2001)
• Jaguar X-Type Estate (2004)
• Aston Martin DB9 (2004)

What is Ian Callum doing now?

Ian Callum, the noted automotive designer, has started a new company, simply named Callum Design.

Who designed the F Type Jaguar?

The F-Type was designed by one of the car world’s superstar designers, Ian Callum , who made his name developing such greats as the Aston Martin Vanquish and DB7.

Who designed the Jaguar XF?

IAN CALLUM: ‘At the risk of sounding immodest, it’s the most important new car for us since the 1968 XJ6. That car for me was a real benchmark. It set the Jaguar identity arguably until the present day. But the ’68 XJ was not immediately accepted by the purists.

Who designed the DB9?

The DB9, originally designed by Ian Callum and Henrik Fisker , has an aluminium construction. The chassis is the Ford developed VH platform whilst the engine is the 5.9-litre V12 from the Vanquish.