Roland Rudd
Senior
Partner, Finsbury
Roland founded Finsbury in 1994. The company
was bought by WPP in 2001 and is today one of the largest global
financial communications groups. Before founding Finsbury he worked
as a financial journalist at the Financial Times, The Sunday
Correspondent and The Times. He is a former policy
coordinator for Lord Owen.
At Oxford University he read philosophy and
theology; he was President of the Union and is now a visiting
Fellow at the University's Centre of Corporate Reputation and an
honorary fellow at the University's Regent's Park
College.
He is a Trustee of the Royal Opera House;
Chairman of the Tate's Corporate Advisory Group; Non Executive
Director on the Army Board. He is also a member The Prince's
Rainforests Project Steering Group, the Great Ormond Street
Hospital Corporate Partnerships Board and a patron of the NSPCC. He
is a former board member of Britain in Europe and is now the
founding Chairman of Business for New Europe and a member of the
Centre for European Reform's advisory
board.