David Green

David Green has worked for almost forty years as a central banker and financial regulator, principally in the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority.

From 1968 to 1998, he worked in the Bank of England on a broad range of topics. These included domestic and international macroeconomic and monetary policy matters, international capital markets, financial stability issues and banking supervision.

From 1974 to 1977, he was on secondment as Personal Assistant to the Managing Director of the IMF in Washington D.C.

From 1983 to 1992, he was Senior Adviser and then Head of the North America and Japan Division of the Bank, responsible for advice to the Governor on both macro-economic and financial system issues in North America and Japan.

From 1992 to 1998, he undertook a variety of roles in the banking supervision area of the Bank, supervising a range of institutions from small and medium-sized UK banks to large North American, European and Japanese banks.

From 1998 to 2004, he was Head of International Policy Co-ordination and EU Affairs in the Office of the Chairman of the Financial Services Authority. In this role, he was heavily involved in managing the newly-created FSA's relationships in the international policy field. He was particularly engaged in the development of the European single market in financial services and of the Lamfalussy committee structure. He was the FSA's member of the Banking Supervision Committee of the European Central Bank and the EU Commission's Banking Advisory Committee.

He was Adviser on Public Affairs to the Managing Board of Euronext from 2004-5 and is currently Adviser on International Affairs to the Financial Reporting Council as well as Secretary-General of the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators. He is also a consultant on financial regulation including to overseas central banks, governments and regulators.

He has recently written, jointly with Sir Howard Davies, "Global Financial Regulation: The Essential Guide", published by Polity Press, as well as an article, jointly with Eilis Ferran, Professor of Company and Securities Law at Cambridge University, on the functioning of the Lamfulussy financial regulatory committees.

David Green was educated at Watford Grammar School and took a Double First in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He has an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Wales, the thesis for which was on the Canadian financial system.