Key People

E Mervyn Davies, CBE E. Mervyn Davies, CBE has been Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC since November 2006. He joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC in December 1997 and was Group Chief Executive from November 2001 - 2006.

Mervyn is Chairman of Fleming Family & Partners, Chairman of Nordic Windpower Limited, the Chair of the Council of the University of Wales, Bangor and a governor of the London School of Economics. He also holds non-executive directorships with Breakingviews Limited, Tesco PLC, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and Trinity Limited and is on the Advisory Committees of Corsair Capital LLC and the UK India Business Council.

In May 2007, Mervyn was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer as Chairman of the Interim Executive Committee of the International Centre for Financial Regulation. In June 2007, he was appointed by the Prime Minister as Chairman of the Business Council for Britain.

Mervyn is Chairman of The Roundhouse's Major Projects Board and Chairman of the Corporate Board of the Royal Academy of Arts. He is also a Trustee of the Sir Kyffin Williams Trust and has been a Director of the Hong Kong Association since August 2007.

He completed the Programme for Management Development at Harvard Business School and is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers.

Mervyn was awarded a CBE for his services to the financial sector and the community in Hong Kong in June 2002 and is a JP in Hong Kong.

Mervyn is married with two children and is a fluent Welsh speaker. He is a keen sportsman and is interested in Welsh art, music and reading. Mervyn was born in 1952.