Mr Francis Finlay

Francis is currently a director of several international investment companies and also serves on the investment committees of a number of endowments both in the U.K. and overseas. He stepped down in 2006 from active leadership of the New York-based international investment firm, Clay Finlay Inc., which he co-founded in 1982. Formerly he 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.

Educated at Oxford University, where he is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College and a member of the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors, Francis was also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business 1981–1986. He is a Governor of the London Business School and of the Ditchley Foundation, Chairman of the James Martin 21st Century Foundation, Co-Chairman of the EastWest Institute in New York and a Trustee of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.