Other names 范智廉 (Chinese name) Education University of Glasgow Role Businessman | Name Douglas Flint Alma mater University of Glasgow | |
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Full Name Douglas Jardine Flint Born 8 July 1955 (age 68) ( 1955-07-08 ) Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Occupation Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc | ||
Mr Ethical asks HSBC's Douglas Flint awkward questions at their AGM2017
Douglas Jardine Flint, CBE is a British banking businessman. He is currently the Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings.
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Education
Flint graduated with a bachelor's degree with honours in Accounting from the University of Glasgow. He also completed the PMD course at Harvard Business School in 1983. Flint is a member of a number of professional bodies such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, the British Association of Corporate Treasurers professional body and most recently, Institute of International Finance, where he now serves as Chairman of the Board. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Career
Flint started his career in Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG), and was appointed a partner of the firm in 1988. He has an in depth knowledge of banking, treasury and securities trading operations, financial reporting of multinationals. He became Group Finance Director of HSBC in 1995. He was the Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council's review of the Turnbull Guidance on Internal Control from 2004 to 2005 and was a member of The Accounting Standards Board and the Standards Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation from 2001 to 2004.
In June 2006, in recognition to his services to the finance industry, he was appointed a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).
Flint became chairman of HSBC Holdings PLC, Europe's biggest bank, at the end of 2010.