Clara Furse

Clara Furse DBE ( born 1957 in Montreal, Canada) was founded in 2001 the first female managing director of one of the largest and oldest markets in Europe, the London Stock Exchange. She is married and has three children.

Career

Clara Furse was born in Canada, the daughter of Dutch parents, and grew to five languages ​​in Colombia, Denmark and England. After her studies in economics at the London School of Economics ( LSE), she began her career as a trader in the " Heinold Commodities Ltd. " In London. In 1983, Furse joined " Phillips & Drew ." Two years later she became director of the Company and this merged with the " Union Bank of Switzerland" for today's UBS, where she worked as a " director ", " executive director ", " Managing Director " and " Global Head of Futures" 15 years. In 1998, Furse over as CEO of French bank "Credit Lyonnaise Rouse ". For this purpose, it was from 1992 to 1999 deputy chairman of the Futures Exchange London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange ( LIFFE ), today Euro Next. In December 2000, Furse " LIFFE " left and was established in February 2001, the first female director of the London Stock Exchange ( LSE). You should bring the " LSE " forward again after the takeover by the German Börse AG had burst in 2000. In 2005, failed re- negotiations with the German Stock Exchange, so the criticism of Clara Furse increased. Under her leadership, in 2007, joined the LSE and Borsa Italiana SpA means of an exchange of shares with a value of 1.878 billion euros.

In 2005, they reached number 19 of the Fortune magazine in the category: Most powerful women in business. In 2007, she was among the top 100 Most Influential People in The World, a statistic of Time Magazine. In the same year Furse reached in a ranking of the "Wall Street Journal " in the top women of the economy in sixth place.