Howard Davies (British financial regulator)

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Sir Howard Davies KBE is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to his current appointment he was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the UK's single financial regulator in 1998. He accepted Knighthood in 2000.

Howard Davies had previously served for two years as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England after three years as Director General of the Confederation of British Industry. From 1987 to 1992 he was Controller of the Audit Commission. From 1982 to 1987 he worked for McKinsey & Company in London and during 1985-1986 was seconded to the Treasury as Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had previously worked at the Treasury and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including two years as Private Secretary to the British Ambassador in Paris. Sir Howard Davies is also a member of the Council of International Advisers of the China Banking Regulatory Commission.

Howard Davies was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford, where he gained an MA in history and modern languages. In 1979 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and in 1980 took an MSc in management sciences at Stanford Graduate School of Business, California. Since 2002 he has been a Trustee of the Tate. He is a member of the governing body, Royal Academy of Music; Patron of Working Families; and in 2004 was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Merton College. In 2004 he joined the board of Morgan Stanley as a non-executive director. He was featured as 'A man of our times' in Nicholas Henderson's Old Friends and Modern Instances.

Howard Davies, who is 55, is married to a journalist. They have two sons, George and Archie, and live in London. He is a prominent supporter of Manchester City Football Club and he regularly plays cricket. In late 2006, he was announced as Chair of Judges for the 2007 Man Booker Prize.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
Governor: Sir Edward George (June 1997–June 2003)
June 1997-July 1997:	George | Davies | King | Buiter | Goodhart | Plenderleith