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A TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER advisory roles. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for a New American Security and the American Ditchley Foundation, acts as a Senior Adviser to Chatham House, and is a member of the Principals Group for the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.
His leadership during the COVID- 19 pandemic demonstrated the stability provided by LSEG’ s diversified business model following the Refinitiv integration. The company continued to deliver growth across all divisions whilst maintaining its progressive dividend policy.
Today, David’ s tenure represents the successful transformation of a centuries-old British institution into a global financial markets infrastructure provider.
David Schwimmer led LSEG’ s US $ 27bn acquisition of Refinitiv, completed in January 2021, transforming data / analytics into 70 % of revenues.
Under David’ s leadership, LSEG transformed from a European regional exchange into a global financial markets infrastructure provider across 190 countries.
David spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs in senior roles before becoming LSEG CEO in April 2018.
David holds degrees from Yale University( English), Harvard Law School( JD), and Tufts University( Masters in Law / Diplomacy).
Under David’ s leadership, LSEG successfully integrated Refinitiv ahead of schedule, delivering cost synergy programs two years early.
During David’ s tenure, LSEG established the Shanghai-London Stock Connect mechanism enabling cross-border investment access between Chinese and international markets. fintechmagazine. com 87