David Craig is co-chair of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), senior adviser to London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) as well as founder and former CEO of Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest providers of data, analytics and technology to financial markets. He was previously a partner at McKinsey and Group head of Strategy for Reuters plc.
He has been a leader in developing the data and infrastructure that markets need to mainstream sustainability and has a wealth of experience in forging partnerships between data, insight and technology providers and financial markets. David was also one of the driving forces behind the deal which transformed the LSEG into a leading data provider and orchestrated the buyout of Thomson Reuters with a private equity consortium led by Blackstone to form Refinitiv.
David is on the World Economic Forum (WEF) Banking Governors Board, and the WEF Digital Disruption and Innovation group. He co-chairs the India-UK Financial Services Partnership (IUKFP) between UK and Indian Banks, the UK HMT and the Indian Ministry of Finance.
At TNFD his mission is to lead the way forward in helping financial firms and companies create a simple framework for managing nature related risks and shifting global financial flows toward nature-positive outcomes.