David Craig

Term of appointment: 1 September 2026 – 31 August 2030

David is a Non-Executive Director of the Court of the Bank of England, and he sits on the Audit and Risk Committee.

He is co-chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. He is also a trustee of the Natural History Museum, supporting the technology and data agenda, Risk and Audit Committee and is been a member of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, founded by HM Charles III in 2020.

David was founder and Chief Executive Officer of Refinitiv (2011-2021), a global market leader in financial data, technology and trading platforms. It was acquired by the London Stock Exchange Group in 2021. He then joined the LSEG Executive Committee and led the Data and Analytics Division. He also spent five years on the Monetary Authority of Singapore's International Technical Advisory Panel and has advised the Bank of England (2023) and Banco de España (2025) on data strategy.

David is Chair of the Triple Private Equity Investment Committee, investing in European financial technology companies, and he is an adviser to TSP Venture Partners, investing in industrial sustainability technologies. He was previously Chief Strategy Officer for Reuters, then Thomson Reuters, where he founded the Governance, Risk and Compliance Business. He spent eight years in the McKinsey Business Technology Office and 10 years software engineering in the financial services and telecommunications industries.

He holds a BEng in Electronic and Communications Engineering from the University of Bristol.