Robert John Richard Owen

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Mr. Robert Owen has been a senior financial market regulator and investment banking practitioner for the major part of his career.           

After graduating from Oxford University with First Class Honours in 1961, he worked at the UK Foreign Office and Treasury until 1970, serving in London and Washington DC. He then joined the merchant bank Morgan Grenfell & Co. Ltd., where he became a director in 1974. In 1979 he joined Lloyds Bank lnternational Ltd. as Director of Merchant Banking. In 1984 he became Chairman of Lloyds Merchant Bank and Director of Investment Banking of the Lloyds Bank Group.  

In 1988 Mr. Owen was appointed Adviser to the Hong Kong Government. In early 1989, when the new Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) was established, he became its first Executive Chairman. He served in this position until 1992, during which time the new regulatory system was firmly established and a number of further reforms and market development measures were introduced. 

Since 1992 Mr. Owen has held a number of positions such as Member of the Council and Regulatory Board of Lloyds of London (the insurance market) from 1994 – 1997, Deputy Chairman of Nomura Asia Holdings Ltd from 1995 – 2003 and Director of European Capital Co. Ltd from 1993 – 2000 to name a few. He is currently serving as Chairman of the International Securities Consultancy Ltd. (1995-present) and Chairman of Minerva International Education Ltd (2020-present).

Mr Owen is a former Repton pupil (as was his father) and was a Governor of Repton School in the UK in the 1980s and again from 1995 to 2020. He played a leading role in the establishment of Repton Dubai in 2004 – 2006 and has been a Governor of the school since its opening in 2007. In 2013 he initiated the formation of Repton International Schools Ltd (the wholly-owned subsidiary of Repton UK established to manage and develop Repton’s international operations) and was its Chairman until 2020. He also serves as the Governor of Repton Al Barsha and Repton Abu Dhabi since their establishment.