Peter Davies

Peter Davies was appointed as a Governor in September 2009.

Peter is currently a senior limited partner at Lansdowne Partners, an investment partnership dedicated to absolute return products, where he also sits on the Management Committee and is jointly responsible for the UK Equity Strategy. This strategy was established in 2001 and has become the largest fund of its type in the UK. Prior to that he was a Director at Merrill Lynch Investment Management (previously Mercury Asset Management).

Since 2007 he has been a member of the Investment Committee of the Wellcome Trust, a role he also fulfils at Magdalen College Oxford. He also sits on the advisory committee of Manocap, a venture capital fund investing in some of the most distressed areas of the world, initially focused in Sierra Leone. Other not-for-profit works include charities involved in making chess and cricket more widely available in schools in the UK.