Mr Francis Finlay

Francis Finlay is Chairman of Clay Finlay Inc., a New York-based institutional investment management firm with offices in Europe and Asia. Prior to co-founding the firm in 1982, Francis held senior international investment management positions at Morgan Guaranty Trust in New York and Lazard Freres in New York and previously Paris, and was a member of the Investment Policy Committees of both institutions. He is a Director of a number of investment companies.

Educated at Oxford University, where he is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College and a member of the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors, Francis also served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business 1981-1986. He is currently a Governor of the London Business School and of the Ditchley Foundation, Chairman of the James Martin 21st Century Foundation, a Director of the EastWest Institute, a Trustee of the Weidenfeld Institute and a member of several international advisory boards.

Francis is Chairman of the American Friends of the British Museum.