Note: An additional train strike was arranged for Wednesday 9 November. This sadly clashed with our original date for this event, and we sadly had no option but to postpone the event. The revised date is now Tuesday 31 January 2023.

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The Eastbournian Society hosts a series of networking events, and the focus for this one is to bring together those working in, or with an interest in, the banking, broking, payments, asset management and wealth sectors.

Our goal is to foster a thriving and connected community of OEs, pupils, parents of current and former pupils, staff, and any other friends and supporters of the College. Our guest speaker for the evening is David Clark:

• Educated at Archbishop Tenison’s Grammar School at the Oval, and London University graduating, with a BSc in Economics and Politics.
• His career has been in banking, specialising in investment banking, and trading in, and managing, treasury and capital markets products for major international banks. (Bankers Trust, Commerzbank and HSBC). He has travelled extensively, lived and worked in Germany, and also has a specialist knowledge of Asian markets.
• Since retiring from CEO positions, he has had a portfolio career of Non-Executive Board positions in banks, broking companies and charities. Among other positions he has been a Senior Advisor to the UK Financial Services Authority (now FCA), President of the global Foreign Exchange Association, and a Visiting Lecturer to the Institute of International Finance in Washington.
• He is currently a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Refinitiv Benchmark Services Ltd, part of the London Stock Exchange Group; a member of the Bank of England Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee; a member of The InterContinental Exchange Oversight Committees. He is also Vice Chair of the Advisory Group to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Markets and Services.
• He has 4 children all of whom went to Eastbourne College.

Registration is from 5:30pm, with the main event beginning at 6:00pm. Our guest will speak at approximately 6:45. The event is free of charge to all attendees. Drinks and nibbles will be provided.