Sir David John Verey

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(born 1950) is an English banker and philanthropist.

Early life

Verey was born on 8 December 1950.DeBrett's
/ref> He went to school at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

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/ref> and later received a Master of Arts degree in English from

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

.ArtFund
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Career

He started his career in finance at

Lazard Lazard Ltd (formerly known as Lazard Frères & Co.) is a financial advisory and asset management firm that engages in investment banking, asset management and other financial services, primarily with institutional clients. It is the world's lar ...

in 1972.UK Government
/ref> In 1983 he was appointed to its board of directors. He became deputy chief executive in 1985 and chief executive in 1990. He was its chairman from 1990 to 2001. From 2001 to 2002, he was deputy chairman of Cazenove, a British stock broker and investment firm. He is to this day senior adviser at Lazard. From 1996 to 2000 he was on the board of directors of

Pearson PLC Pearson plc is a British multinational corporation, multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London, England. It was founded as a construction business in the 1840s but switched to publishing in the 1920s.J. A. Spende ...

. From 2004 to 2008 he was chairman of Blackstone Group UK. From 2004 to 2009 he was a senior advisor to FreshMinds, a recruitment and research consultancy firm. From 2009 to 2012 he was a non-executive director of LMS Capital, a private equity firm, and from 2010 to 2011, of Thames River Capital.LMS Capital
/ref> He has been on the board of directors of the

Daily Mail and General Trust Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) is a British multinational media company, the owner of the ''Daily Mail'' and several other titles. The 4th Viscount Rothermere is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the company. The head office is ...

Sofina Sofina, ''Société Financière de Transports et d'Entreprises Industrielles'', is a Belgian holding company, headquartered in Brussels with offices in Singapore. As part of the Bel20 index, it is one of the twenty largest capitalisation in Be ...

and Bank Gutmann for 12 years until 2016. Among his continuing involvement with Lazard, he has been chairman of the Government Art Collection Advisory Board since 2013, chairman of the board at Sofina, Trustee of the British Council and chairman of trustees for the Friends of Leighton House Museum.

Public service

He was lead non-executive director in the

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. From September 2013 he has been chairman of the Government Art Collection Advisory Committee. From November 2014 until today, he has been Trustee of the British Council.

Philanthropy

From 1992 to 2004 he was on the board of trustees of the

Tate Gallery Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

, and from 1998 to 2003, he served as the chairman of its board of trustees. He has been chairman of the board of trustees of ArtFund since 2004. He is on the boards of the Teaching Awards Trust and the Pilgrim Trust. He was a fellow of his ''alma mater'', Eton College, from 1997 to 2012, where he gave funds to create the Verey Gallery, which is named in his honour. He is also a member of the Trinity, Cambridge Finance Committee and the Cambridge University Library Visiting Committee. He is an honorary fellow of

St Hugh's College, Oxford St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a women's college, and accepte ...

. In 2004 he was made a

for his philanthropy to the arts. He was

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in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to arts philanthropy as chair of the Art Fund.2015 New Year Honours List
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References

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