Meet the Leader: a conversation with David Craig

David Craig speaks with Lutfey Siddiqi as part of the Meet the Leader series, hosted by LSE IDEAS’ Alumni Network.

In the Meet the Leader Series, LSE IDEAS hosts fireside chats with leading practitioners of strategy and diplomacy, who have achieved distinction in public and private sectors.

Our guest is David Craig, Co-chair of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Co-chair of the India UK Financial Partnership, Executive Fellow at London Business School and member of the City of London Competitiveness advisory board. He was the former CEO of Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest providers of data, analytics and technology to financial markets.

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This webinar was held on Thursday 30 June 2022.

Meet the speaker and chair

David Craig is Co-chair of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Co-chair of the India UK Financial Partnership, Executive Fellow at London Business School and member of the City of London Competitiveness advisory board. He was the former CEO of Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest providers of data, analytics and technology to financial markets. David has 30 years of experience in financial markets data and technology and is seen as a world expert in the data and market infrastructure required to drive future sustainability. David was also one of the driving forces behind the buyout from Thomson Reuters with a private equity consortium led by Blackstone to form Refinitiv.

Lutfey Siddiqi is a Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE IDEAS and a co-investigator at LSE Inclusion Initiative (TII). He is a member of the advisory boards of LSE Systemic Risk Centre, LSE IDEAS and TII. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore (Risk Management Institute) and advisory board member of the Centre for Governance and Sustainability (CGS) at NUS business school. He was previously Global Head of Emerging Markets for Foreign Exchange, Rates & Credit at UBS Investment Bank where he was also the founding head of UBS Knowledge Network. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director at Barclays Bank in charge of a business-line across Asia Pacific.