Richard Hardie
Chair, UBS Limited
Richard read History and French at Lincoln College, Oxford. After qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1975 he joined SG Warburg & Co whose main business is still prominent within UBS Investment Bank. After five years in Corporate Finance and nine years in Group Management, he rejoined Corporate Finance as Chief Operating Officer (COO) in 1991. He was Global Equities COO from 1994 - 2002 and from 2002 – 06 was the Investment Bank’s overall COO in Europe, Middle East and Africa, playing a strategic role in IT, Operations, HR and Finance. He is now Non-Executive Vice Chair of UBS ltd.
UBS Group is the world’s largest financial asset manager. Richard was directly involved in the management of the Group’s four major mergers between 1986 and 2000 during which, and in the course of his line management roles, he has developed a particular interest in the attraction and retention of talent at all levels in the business.
Richard is a leader in UBS’s Corporate Responsibility and Community Affairs programmes and is Deputy Chair of The Bridge Academy, Hackney, a new school for 1,150 students in the 11 – 19 age group sponsored by UBS and a private client. It opened in September 2007 and is specialising in Maths and Music. Richard was named HRH The Prince of Wales’ Business in the Community Ambassador for London for 2007. Richard also plays a leading role in UBS’s sponsorship of The London Symphony Orchestra and Tate Modern which includes innovative arts outreach programmes.
In 2003 Richard joined the Board of The Learning Trust, Hackney’s education provider and the only not-for-profit independent Education Authority in the UK. He is now Chair, having recently succeeded Sir Mike Tomlinson, to whom he had acted as business mentor.
Richard is a member of the Circle of Patrons at INSEAD Business School, Fontainebleau.
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