In accordance with current best practice regarding charity governance, the Library’s Trustees are asked at least annually to declare the interests which, in their judgement, are or might be relevant in their role.
These are set out in the register below.
Building Project Steering Committee (2014–2016)
Collections Committee (2018– )
Development Committee (2014–2015, 2016– )
Finance Committee (2015– )
Member since 2013. Canadian/US citizen now living in London. Educated at Wellesley College (undergraduate degree in French) and graduate of the Getty Leadership Institute’s Museum Leadership programme (MLI), with an MA in Connoisseurship and the Art & Auction Market from Christie’s Education, New York, and, more recently, an MA in Art & Archaeology (Asian Art) from SOAS. Spent 17 years on Wall Street (1981-1998) as an internal auditor and later as a compliance director and supervisory principal specialising in regulatory compliance and internal control issues, ending as a Managing Director in Fixed Income Compliance at Bear, Stearns. Subsequently moved into museum administration and served as Managing Director of the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas from 2003 to 2008 before serving as Managing Director of the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, a newly built $235m Platinum LEED certified cultural and educational attraction. Author of Bringing Heaven to Earth: Chinese Silver Jewellery and Ornament in the Late Qing Dynasty, Ianthe Press, London 2016 in association with Paul Holberton Publishing.
Chairs Committee (Chair) (2017– )
Development Committee (Chair) (2015– )
Director Search Committee (Chair) (2016–2017)
Howard Davies was appointed Chairman of The London Library Trustees on 3 November 2015. He was appointed Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland on 1 September 2015. He recently chaired the UK Airports Commission and was the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2003 until May 2011. Prior to this appointment Howard chaired the UK Financial Services Authority from 1997 to 2003 and was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, after three years as the Director General of the Confederation of British Industry.
Howard is also a Professor of Practice at the French School of Political Science in Paris (Sciences Po).
Howard has published five books focused on the financial markets and regularly writes for The Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement and Management Today. He chaired the Man Booker Prize judges in 2007.
