Occupation Banker | Name Robin Budenberg | |
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Public Ownership of Banks | Andrea Leadsom MP | 12th November 2013
Robin Francis Budenberg CBE is a British banker. He was appointed Chairman of The Crown Estate on 9 August 2016 and has been London Chairman of Centerview Partners since September 2014. Budenberg is also Non-Executive Director of Charity Bank and Big Society Trust
From 2010 until January 2014 he was Chief Executive and then Chairman of UK Financial Investments the UK government body that oversees the government's investments in financial insititutions bailed out during the credit crunch. He was previously a senior investment banker at UBS Investment Bank where he worked for over 25 years and oversaw the bank's relationship with HM Treasury. He was part of the team that designed the Government Bank Recapitalisation Scheme in October 2008.
Budenberg started his career with Price Waterhouse where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and joined SG Warburg in 1984.
In 2015, he was awarded an CBE "for services to taxpayers and the economy".
Married with four children, Budenberg enjoys golf.