David Alan Walker (banker)
for the Wikify tag on this article.Sir David Alan Walker (born 31 December 1939), a British banker, was the chairman of Morgan Stanley International. He remains a senior advisor to that firm.
He was chairman from 1995 to 2001, and then again from 2004 to 2005.
He had previously held the positions of Assistant Secretary at the Treasury, (1974–77), chairman of the Securities and Investments Board (1988–92), Executive Director for finance and industry at the Bank of England (1989–95), and Deputy Chairman of Lloyds TSB (1992–94). In 1994 Walker also joined the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.
In 2007 Walker was commissioned by the UK private equity industry to produce guidelines for disclosure and transparency in private equity.
On 9th Feb 2009 he was appointed to lead a Government enquiry into banks' corporate governance. The appointment was criticised.
Executive Chairman, 2004–05, and Senior Adviser, 2001–04 and since 2006, Morgan Stanley International plc (formerly Ltd)
On 9 August 2012 he was appointed Chairman of Barclays, with effect from 1 November 2012.
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