Mr. Brandon Davies (Director)

Brandon is a Trustee of the Institute of International Monetary Research at Buckingham University and a Board Director of the Responsible Finance & Investment Foundation CIC which works with a number of Banks including HSBC to help Shariah compliant banks with ESG compliance.

He has had a 50-year career in finance and today his main role, is as the author and lecturer of the banking course for the MSc in Money, Banking, and Central Banking at Buckingham University, he is also developing a new MSc in Investment, Money, and Payments in co-operation with Prof. Tim Congdon and a series of post graduate courses for finance professionals.

Additional Affiliations

Brandon is a member of the advisory committee for the Centre for Financial Professionals (CefPro) and a member of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics. He is currently working on a project between a number of academics and CefPro to train an AI model to facilitate research on a number of questions in finance.

Passed Advisory Roles

Brandon has sat on the advisor panels for the Professional Risk Managers Association and The Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation and for Long Finance.

Passed Non-Executive Roles

Brandon has been a non-executive for two fintech companies, also for two banks and has been the chairman of a private equity company.

Passed Executive Roles

Most of Brandon’s executive career, some 32 years, was with Barclays Bank Brandon retired from Barclays Bank in 2004 where he had been Treasurer of retail and corporate banking operations of the group and a member of the banks Executive Committee. Prior to that appointment he spent much of his career in investment banking where he worked in London, New York, Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore and became the first Head of Structured Products at Barclays Capital.