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Sir James Sassoon is currently the UK Chancellor's and the UK Treasury's Representative for Promotion of the City, a part-time role in which he will continue. He was appointed to this role in December 2005 to champion the interests of the UK's financial and business services firms and markets internationally.
From 2002 he served three years as a member of the Treasury Board and Managing Director of the Treasury's Finance and Industry Directorate. The Directorate was responsible for financial services and for industry policy, including productivity, enterprise and growth and public-private partnerships. He was the Chancellor's Deputy on and chaired the UK Standing Committee on Financial Stability, the Treasury's non-executive director on the board of Partnerships UK and representative on a number of Ministerially chaired committees, the global Financial Stability Forum and the EU Financial Services Committee.
From 1985 - 2002 Sir James Sassoon was at UBS Warburg, latterly as Vice Chairman, Investment Banking with responsibility for the firm's global privatisation business. He advised Government departments on a variety of public-private sector projects as well as acting for governments in Europe, Asia and the Americas over more than ten years. He qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG.
Sir James was awarded a knighthood in recognition for his services to the finance industry and to public service in the Queen's 2008 New Year Honours list.
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