Sir Robin Francis Budenberg (born 1959) is a British corporate adviser. He was appointed non-executive Director of

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on 1 October 2020 and became Chairman on 4 January 2021 and was appointed Chairman of The Crown Estate on 9 August 2016.

Early life

Budenberg grew up in Cheshire, where his family owned

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, a maker of pressure gauges and accessories established in

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in 1854. Budenberg holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

Career

Budenberg started his career with Price Waterhouse where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and joined

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in 1984. He was a senior investment banker at UBS Investment Bank where he worked for over 25 years and oversaw the bank's relationship with

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. He was part of the team that designed the Government Bank Recapitalisation Scheme in October 2008. 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 institutions bailed out during the banking crisis. Budenberg was London Chairman of Centerview Partners between 2015 and 2020 and was also a non executive director of Charity Bank and Big Society Trust

Honours

He was appointed

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(CBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to the taxpayers and the economy and knighted in the

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for services to the economy.

References

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