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Overview
Dame Clara Furse is an experienced Chair with a wealth of professional experience and expertise within financial services, telecommunications, travel industry networks, technology and digital transformation.
Dame Clara is Chair of HSBC UK Bank plc, the ringfenced bank of HSBC Group plc. She is a NonExecutive Director of Generali Assicurazioni SpA. She is a member of the Panel of Senior Advisers to Chatham House and Chair of the UK Voluntary Carbon Markets Forum. Previously she was a Non-Executive Director of Vodafone Group plc.
Dame Clara’s executive career has spanned a broad range of global financial markets.
She was appointed as the first female CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group, a FTSE 100 company, in January 2001. From 2013 to 2016, she was a member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee.
In 2007, Dame Clara was listed among Time’s 100 most influential people in the world. In 2008, she was appointed DBE. In 2012, she chaired the Lead Expert Group of the UK Government’s Office for Science Foresight Project on the future of computer trading in financial markets.
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HSBC UK Bank plc
Chair
London Stock Exchange Group plc
CEO
Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC)
External Member
UK Department for Work and Pensions
Lead Independent Director
Nomura Bank International plc
Chair
Other Career Highlights
Amadeus IT Group SA
Non-Executive Director and Committee Chair
Nomura Holdings Inc.
Non-Executive Director
Legal & General Group plc
Non-Executive Director
Euroclear plc
Non-Executive Director
LCH Clearnet Group Ltd
Non-Executive Director
Fortis SA
Non-Executive Director
Credit Lyonnais Rouse
Group CEO
UBS
Managing Director and Global Head of Futures
Vodafone Group plc
Non-Executive Director
Generali Assicurazioni SpA
Non-Executive Director
Committee Chair and Deputy Chair
Non-Executive Director