Sir Douglas Jardine Flint, (born 8 July 1955) is a British banker and former Group Chairman of

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. He served from 2011 to 2017, having previously been Group Finance Director since 1995. He currently serves as chairman of

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Biography

Education

Flint graduated with a bachelor's degree with honours in Accounting from the

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. 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

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, the British Association of Corporate Treasurers professional body and most recently,

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, where he now serves as chairman of the board. He is also a Fellow of the

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Career

Flint started his career in Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. (now

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), and was appointed a partner of the firm in 1988. 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 (

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). Flint became group chairman of HSBC at the end of 2010. In October 2018 it was announced that he would become the new chairman of

on 1 January 2019, succeeding Sir Gerry Grimstone.

References

External links

HSBC director's profile
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