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Howard Davies is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science [LSE].
Prior to becoming the Director of LSE in 2003 he served as Chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the UK's single financial regulator from 1998. Davies also served two years as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England following three years as Director General of the Confederation of British Industry. From 1987 to 1992 he was Controller of the Audit Commission and prior to that appointment he worked for McKinsey & Company in London. In 1985-1986 was seconded to the Treasury as Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had previously worked at the Treasury and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including two years as Private Secretary to the British Ambassador in Paris.
Howard Davies was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford, where he gained an MA in history and modern languages. In 1979 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and in 1980 took an MSc in management sciences at Stanford Graduate School of Business, California.
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