David Alan Walker (banker)

Sir David Alan Walker (born 31 December 1939), a British banker, was the chairman of Morgan Stanley International. He remains a senior advisor to that firm.

He was chairman from 1995 to 2001, and then again from 2004 to 2005.^[1]

He had previously held the positions of Assistant Secretary at the Treasury, (1974–77), chairman of the Securities and Investments Board (1988–92), Executive Director for finance and industry at the Bank of England (1989–95), and Deputy Chairman of Lloyds TSB (1992–94). In 1994 Walker also joined the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.

In 2007 Walker was commissioned by the UK private equity industry to produce guidelines for disclosure and transparency in private equity.^[2]

On 9th Feb 2009 he was appointed to lead a Government enquiry into banks' corporate governance. The appointment was criticised.^[3]

Executive Chairman, 2004–05, and Senior Adviser, 2001–04 and since 2006, Morgan Stanley International plc (formerly Ltd)

Private life

Educated Chesterfield School; Queens' College, Cambridge (MA; Hon. Fellow, 1989, double first Economics). Married 1963, Isobel Cooper; one s two d. Knighted 1991.

Career

• Joined HM Treasury, 1961;
• Private Secretary to Joint Permanent Secretary, 1964–66;
• seconded to Staff of International Monetary Fund, Washington, 1970–73;
• Asst Secretary, HM Treasury, 1973–77;
• joined Bank of England as Chief Adviser, then Chief of Economic Intelligence Dept, 1977; a Director, 1981–93 (non-executive, 1988–93);
• Chairman: Johnson Matthey Bankers, later Minories Finance, 1985–88;
• SIB, 1988–92;
• Agricultural Mortgage Corp., 1993–94;
• Deputy Chairman, Lloyds Bank plc, 1992–94;
• Director, Morgan Stanley Inc., 1994–97;
• Executive Chairman, Morgan Stanley Group (Europe) plc, subsequently Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (Europe) Ltd, 1994–2000;
• Chairman, Morgan Stanley International Inc., 1995–2000;
• Member, Management Board, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, 1997–2000.
• Chairman: Steering Group, Financial Markets Group, LSE, 1986–93;
• Review of Disclosure and Transparency in Private Equity, 2007–. Bd Member, CEGB, 1987–89;
• Chairman, RVC Greenhouse Fund, 1999–;
• non-executive Director: National Power, 1990, 1993–94;
• British Invisibles, 1993–97;
• Reuters Holdings, 1994–2000;
• Nominated Mem., Council of Lloyd’s, 1988–92 (Chm., Inquiry into LMX Spiral, 1992).
• Legal & General Assurance Co., 2002– (Vice-Chairman, 2004–). Member, 1993–, Treasurer, 1998–, and Trustee, 2007–, The Group of Thirty.
• Chairman: London Investment Bankers' Association, 2002–04;
• Moroccan British Business Council, 2000–07. Nominated Member, Council of Lloyd's, 1988–92 (Chairman, Inquiry into LMX Spiral, 1992).
• UK Co. Chairman, University of Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign, 2005–.
• Governor, Henley Management College, 1993–99.
• Chairman, Community Links, East End charity. FRSA 1987;
• CCMI (CBIM 1986).
• Hon. LLD Exeter, 2002

References

External links

• Debrett's People of Today
• Who's Who 2008