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Overview
Sir Douglas Flint has extensive experience of Board leadership in global financial services and multinational public companies. He has a wide range of experience gained in over 25 years of serving on public company boards, with over 10 years as Chair. He has considerable experience of financial reporting, stewardship and governance matters and is an expert on China.
Sir Douglas is currently Chair of abrdn plc, one of Europe’s leading investment and wealth management groups, and Chair of IP Group plc, which invests in early-stage hard science with the potential to evolve into world-changing businesses.
He is also an Advisory Board member at Hakluyt & Co. Ltd and Motive Partners, serves on the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and is a Board member of the Institute of International Finance. He is also Non-Executive Director at the International Chamber of Commerce UK (ICC).
In other roles, Sir Douglas is Chair of the Royal Marsden Hospital and Charity, a Director of the Centre for Policy Studies and chairs a corporate partnership board at Cancer Research UK.
In 2017, he was appointed by the Chancellor as Special Envoy for Financial and Professional Services to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a role he fulfilled until 2022.
Sir Douglas was awarded the CBE in 2006 and knighted in 2018, in both instances for his services to the finance industry.
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HSBC Holdings plc
Group Chair and CFO
abrdn plc
Chair
IP Group plc
Chair
Royal Marsden Hospital and Charity
Chair
Financial and Professional Services to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
HM Treasury’s Special Envoy
BP plc
Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair
Other Career Highlights
Mayors of Shanghai and Beijing’s International Business Leaders
Advisory Council member
China Europe International Business School
International Advisory Board member
Institute of International Finance
Chair
KPMG LLP
Partner
Financial Reporting Council’s review of the Turnbull Guidance on Internal Control
Chair
International Accounting Standards Board
Board member and Advisory Council member
Just Finance Foundation
Chair