Clive Bannister

Appointed: 06/04/2021

Experience, skills and contributions

Clive brings a wealth of strategic, commercial, and financial experience to the Board. He started his career as a banker at First National Bank of Boston in 1981 in Boston and London. In 1984, he joined Booz Allen Hamilton and became a partner in their financial consulting practice in 1990.

In 1994, Clive joined HSBC Investment Bank as director and head of planning and strategy in London. He moved to New York in 1996 to be the deputy CEO of HSBC Inc and head of Investment Banking in the US. In 1999, he was appointed Chief Executive of HSBC Group Private Banking, became a group general manager in July 2001, and group managing director in 2006 responsible for Group Insurance and Asset Management at HSBC Holdings Plc. In 2011, Clive was appointed as group CEO of the Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest life and pensions consolidator.

Current external appointments

Clive is currently the chair of the Museum of London and Beazley plc.