Simon Robertson

Sir Simon Robertson is the deputy chairman of HSBC. He is also a former Goldman Sachs Europe president and managing director of Goldman Sachs International and is regarded as one of the UK's best-connected and influential bankers. 
He was knighted in June 2010 and according to the Sunday Times Rich List is worth £130 million. Patrick Hosking, Business big shot: Simon Robertson The Times, 12 September 2007, accessed 16 March 2011. 
 
==Career==
Robertson worked for UK investment bank Kleinwort Benson for 34 years rising up the ranks to become chairman. In 1997 he left to join Goldman Sachs, where he ended up as president of the bank’s European arm. Departing in 2005, he founded Simon Robertson Associates LLP, a small financial advisory company in London.Peter Marsh Knighthood: Simon Robertson, Financial Times, June 11 2010, accessed 16 March 2011.
===HSBC===
Robertson joined the board of HSBC in 2006 as a non-executive director and then a senior non-executive director in 2007. HSBC chairman contenders: Sir Simon Robertson Telegraph, 23 September 2010, accessed 25 February 2015 
He is currently the deputy chairman of the bank. HSBC, Simon Robertson, accessed 25 February 2015 
===Donations to the Conservative Party===
His knighthood in June 2010 came just one month after the Tories took office, and two months after he made them a donation.
Robertson is a member of The Leader's Group, an elite Conservative Party supporter group which enables donors to secure access to leading party members and the prime minister through an annual membership fee of £50,000. Conservative Party, The Leader's Group guests 2014 quarter 1, accessed 25 February 2015 
====Political donations====
Recorded by the Electoral Commission:
Date
Name of donor
Amount
Donated to
Subsidiary (parties only)
15/12/2003
Simon Robertson
£25,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
14/05/2004
Simon Robertson
£50,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
04/04/2005
Simon Robertson
£50,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
07/02/2006
Simon Robertson
£50,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
28/04/2006
Simon Robertson
£25,000.00	
The Rt Hon George Osborne MP
08/02/2007
Simon Robertson
£50,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
19/04/2007
Simon Robertson
£25,000.00
The Rt Hon George Osborne MP
28/11/2007
Simon Robertson
£25,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
10/03/2008
Simon Robertson
£25,000.00
The Rt Hon George Osborne MP
01/08/2008
Simon Robertson
£50,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
26/02/2009
Simon Robertson
£25,000.00
The Rt Hon George Osborne MP
28/07/2009
Simon Robertson
£50,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
14/01/2010
Simon Robertson
£25,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
09/04/2010
Simon Robertson
£5,000.00
Conservative Party
East Hampshire
16/09/2010
Simon Robertson
£50,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
16/02/2012
Simon Robertson
£60,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
04/03/2013
Simon Robertson
£50,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
13/05/2014
Simon Robertson
£25,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
13/08/2014
Simon Robertson
£25,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
21/11/2014
Simon Robertson
£25,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
05/04/2016
Simon Robertson
£50,000
Britain Stronger in EuropeElectoral Commission, Donor Search, accessed 19 May 2016 
 
 Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 25 February 2015 
==Education and early career==
Robertson was educated at Eton. 
He trained with Banque de Neuflize, Schlumberger, Mallet in Paris, Kredietbank in Brussels, Bankhaus Merck Finck in Munich and Munchmeyer & Co in Hamburg before joining Kleinwort, where he joined the corporate finance division in 1968. 
==Affiliations==
*HSBC, on board, 2006
*The Economist, non-executive director
*Royal Academy Trust
*Eden Project, trustee 
===Former===
*Rolls Royce, non-executive chairman
*NewShore Partners Limited, non-executive director
*Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Limited, non-executive director
==Notes==
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