About
Damien is an experienced board-level leader with a finance and risk-analysis background…
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Exceptionally rich and useful resources here for anyone working on or with audit committees (and, more generally, on or with boards and board…
Exceptionally rich and useful resources here for anyone working on or with audit committees (and, more generally, on or with boards and board…
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What makes an excellent (non-executive) Chair of the Board? Having sat on a dozen boards across sectors, I now have a view on what works. Here are my…
What makes an excellent (non-executive) Chair of the Board? Having sat on a dozen boards across sectors, I now have a view on what works. Here are my…
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Food for thought for everyone with a corporate email account. Scary. Is your password still "Password123"?...
Food for thought for everyone with a corporate email account. Scary. Is your password still "Password123"?...
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Experience
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Multiple Organisations
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Education
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Université Paris Dauphine
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A French postgraduate degree awarded after a 5-year university programme. Four years spent in Paris and the last one in the UK, with an Erasmus exchange programme, to prepare for a complementary British MA in Banking and Finance.
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In parallel with the 5th year of the Paris Dauphine course. Including research that led to the publication of: ‘Swaps and the Re-Intermediation of the Large Commercial Banking Industry: an Empirical Investigation’ (Research Paper 95/09, Institute of European Finance).
Volunteer Experience
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Member of the Board of Trustees
Pro Bono Economics
- Present 7 years 5 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
Chair of the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee. PBE, a charitable think-tank, works with the social sector to help charities, funders, government and the private sector tackle the causes and consequences of low wellbeing in the UK. 20 employees and £1.7m in income.
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Member of the Board of Trustees
Crisis
- 6 years
Civil Rights and Social Action
Most recently Chair of the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee. Crisis provides advice, support and training to homeless people and it campaigns to end homelessness for good. In 2022-23, around 12 delivery centres nationwide, 750+ employees and £65m in income.
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Member of the Int'l Finance & Audit Standing Committee
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
- 3 years
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
The committee advises MSF’s International Board, the highest-level supervisory board in the MSF movement. In 2020, MSF raised €1.9bn in more than 30 countries and spent €1.4bn on its humanitarian medical aid mission in 70+ countries and with 45,000 staff members.
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Member of the Board of Trustees
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) UK and Ireland
- 4 years
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
Vice-Chair (after 12/2017), Honorary Treasurer and Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee at MSF-UK. Also member of the audit committee at an Amsterdam-based operational centre with a €300m budget. In 2020, MSF-UK reported £73m in statutory income.
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Business Mentor
The Prince's Trust
- 4 years 4 months
Economic Empowerment
The Prince’s Trust helps disadvantaged young people develop key skills, confidence and motivation, enabling them to move into work, education or training. Business mentors help some of them become self-employed and create a business.
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Business Adviser
Young Enterprise UK
- 1 year 9 months
Education
Young Enterprise is the UK’s leading enterprise and financial education charity. It helps young people learn about business and raise their employability skills. Volunteer advisers help teams of students set up and run a real business for up to a year.
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Member of the Board of Trustees
Reprieve UK
- 5 years 10 months
Human Rights
Also Honorary Treasurer from mid-2013 to 2017. Reprieve defends marginalised people facing human rights abuses, often at the hands of powerful governments. It works with investigators, lawyers and campaigners to secure the right to a fair trial.
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Business Mentor
The Prince's Initiative for Mature Enterprise
- 2 years 3 months
Economic Empowerment
PRIME was dedicated to providing people over 50, who are unemployed or facing redundancy, with the support to achieve sustainable self-employment by starting their own businesses. In late 2014, its operations were taken over by another charity.
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Native or bilingual proficiency
Organizations
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Chartered Institute of Housing
Member
- PresentThe CIH supports the career development of housing specialists, including by promoting relevant professional standards. Its members work in the private and public sectors in 20 countries.
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Institute of Directors
Member
- PresentThe IoD is a membership organisation that provides professional development and training to advance the knowledge, skills and influence of company directors. It has 20,000 members.
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How can non-executive directors use AI to help fulfil their board roles? [Harvard Business Review article]. As a NED, I find AI invaluable to…
How can non-executive directors use AI to help fulfil their board roles? [Harvard Business Review article]. As a NED, I find AI invaluable to…
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Personal News. Delighted to have been appointed to serve as a Trustee of UK for UNHCR . Having seen time and again the impact for people fleeing…
Personal News. Delighted to have been appointed to serve as a Trustee of UK for UNHCR . Having seen time and again the impact for people fleeing…
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A couple of things I have learnt, as a NED, on the oversight of cyber security risks by boards. Each board is different but there are similarities…
A couple of things I have learnt, as a NED, on the oversight of cyber security risks by boards. Each board is different but there are similarities…
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Clearly, the approach to job application assessment will have to drastically change as unmanageable waves of applications - a lot of them being AI…
Clearly, the approach to job application assessment will have to drastically change as unmanageable waves of applications - a lot of them being AI…
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