RICHARD FURSLAND, OBE
Chief Executive Officer
BritishAmerican Business and British-American Business Council
Richard Fursland serves concurrently as Chief Executive Officer
of British American Business and the British-American Business
Council (BABC).
He was actively involved in the establishment of BritishAmerican
Business in 2000, from the merger of the British American Chamber of
Commerce (New York/London) and the American Chamber of Commerce
(UK), and then became the first Chief Executive of the merged
organization.
Six years on, British American Business has established itself as
the leading transatlantic business organization, with a broad
portfolio of business services and 700 member companies (including
many of the world’s largest multinationals) in New York and London,
and networks covering 50 other cities throughout North America and
Continental Europe.
Richard was also the first Chief Executive of the
British-American Business Council (BABC), which has similarly
established itself as the largest transatlantic business network,
connecting 23 chapters and 3,000 member companies throughout North
America and the United Kingdom. British American Business is a
member of, and provides the Secretariat for, the BABC.
Richard had two previous substantial careers: in marketing
communications, including an extensive spell as Executive Vice
President and Managing Director for International Business at Grey
Advertising/GCI Group in New York; and in the British Diplomatic
Service, including postings at the British Embassy in Beijing;
British Trade Commission in Hong Kong; UK Mission to the United
Nations in New York; and Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
He is a Director of the European American Business Council, as
well as of British American Business and the BABC. He has a
first-class honors Degree from Cambridge University, and held a
Henry Fellowship at Harvard University.
He has been living and working in New York since 1981, and is
married with one daughter.
