Sir Douglas Flint CBE

Sir Douglas Flint CBE

Chairman of Standard Life Aberdeen

Flint is Chairman of Standard Life Aberdeen plc, one of Europe’s largest investment companies, a position to which he was appointed on 1st January 2019. He is also Chairman of IP Group plc which helps to create, build and support outstanding intellectual property based companies primarily through collaboration with partner universities.

Douglas Flint retired as Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc on 30th September 2017, having been appointed to that role in December 2010. For fifteen years prior to this he was HSBC’s Group Finance Director, joining from KPMG where he was a partner. Between 2005 and 2011 he was also a Non-Executive Director of BP plc. During his HSBC career, Mr Flint was a member of both the Mayor of Beijing’s and the Mayor of Shanghai’s International Business Leaders’ Advisory Councils and served on the International Advisory Board of the China Europe International Business School. He was also up until his retirement from HSBC, Chair of City UK's China Market Advisory Group.

In December 2017 he was appointed by the Chancellor as Special Envoy to China’s Belt and Road Initiative and serves on the Advisory Council of the Belt and Road Forum for International Co-operation.  

In June 2006, Mr Flint was honoured with a CBE and in June 2018 was awarded a Knighthood, both awards in recognition of his services to the finance industry.