Financing Sustainable Global Growth
Xavier Rolet joined the LSE Group Board as a Director on 16 March 2009 and became CEO on 20 May 2009.
Prior to joining the London Stock Exchange, Xavier was Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers in France from July 2007 to January 2009. He was appointed a member of the Lehman Brothers’ European Operating Committee in 2003, having joined the firm in February 2000 in New York as deputy co-head of Global Equity Trading.
Xavier started his career working for Robert E. Rubin on the International Arbitrage desk at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York in January 1984. In 1990, he was promoted to co-head of European Equity Sales and Trading at Goldman Sachs International Limited and moved to London. He joined Credit Suisse First Boston in 1994 as global head of European Equities before moving to Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as global head of Risk and Trading, and deputy head of Global Equities in 1997.
Additionally, Xavier is a former chairman of the Strategic Advisory Group of the London Stock Exchange and a former member of Deutsche Börse’s London Equity Market Advisory Committee and Frankfurt Secondary Market Advisory Committee, and a former member of the Board of Euronext Paris (Conseil d'Orientation) and Nasdaq Europe.
Xavier is also a former member of the European Securities Markets Expert Group of the European Commission, the French Government's Conseil Stratégique de l'Attractivité ("Strategic Council for Attractiveness"), a former Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce in France and Chatham House in London.
