Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach
Vice
Chairman
Goldman Sachs International
London
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1941. Lord Griffiths graduated from the London School of Economics.
Following his graduation, he taught at the London School of Economics from 1965 to 1976, before changing to the City University in 1976, where he was appointed professor of banking and international finance. During the years 1982 to 1985, he was Dean of the City University Business School, while serving as a director of the Bank of England from 1983 until 1985. Lord Griffiths was head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit from 1985 until 1990. In his role as special advisor to Margaret Thatcher he was responsible for domestic policymaking and was one of the chief architects of the government’s privatisation and deregulation programmes. He was made a member of the House of Lords in 1990. Since then, Lord Griffiths has been Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International and is an international advisor to Goldman Sachs concerned with strategic issues relating to their United Kingdom and Asian operations, business development activities worldwide and private equity. He is also Chairman of the European Audit and Compliance Committee.
Additionally, Lord Griffiths is Chairman of Land Securities Trillium and a non-executive director of Times Newspaper Holdings Ltd., Herman Miller Inc., ServiceMaster and the English, Welsh and Scottish Railway. He chaired the School Examination and Assessment Council during the years 1991 to 1993, the centre for Policy Studies from 1991 to 2000 and Westminster Health Care from 1999 to 2000. Currently, he is Chairman of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lambeth Fund and Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs.
Lord Griffiths has written and lectured extensively on economic issues and the relationship of the Christian faith to politics and business, and has published various books on monetary policy and Christian ethics.
38th St. Gallen Symposium
Chairman of the 38th St. Gallen Symposium
Special Session
The
Crisis on the Financial Markets: Problems Identified? Lessons Learned?
Thursday,
15 May 2008, 18:15–19:45
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 | CV Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, Chairman's Statement Thursday, 38th St. Gallen Symposium |
| CV Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, Special Session, 38th St. Gallen Symposium |
