Current Lord Mayor - Alderman David Lewis

	Full name	David Lewis
	Born	1947 Hong Kong and brought up in the Far East
	Family	Married to Theresa; son Tom and daughter Suzannah
	Education	Dragon School, St Edward's School Oxford and Jesus College Oxford (MA Jurisprudence)
	Interests	Education, maps, travel, welsh rugby, keeping fit and sheep farming

Business career
1969	Articled Clerk at Norton Rose
1972	Qualified as a Solicitor specialising in corporate finance
1977	Elected a Partner of Norton Rose
1977	Qualified as a Solicitor in Hong Kong
1979-82	Managing Partner of Norton Rose’s Hong Kong office
1983-1997	City of London Solicitors’ Company Law Committee
1989-94	Head of Corporate Finance
1994-99	Head of Professional Resources
1997-2003	Chairman and Senior Partner
1999	Norton Rose first law firm to win Queen’s Award for Export Achievement
2003	Consultant at Norton Rose
Appointments
1988	Hon Fellow of Jesus College Oxford
2001	Alderman of the City of London (Broad Street)
2001	Justice of the Peace
2002	Churchwarden of St Margaret Lothbury
2006/7	Sheriff of the City of London
Livery companies
2006-8	Junior Warden, Solicitors’ Company
2002	Fletchers’ Company
2002	Welsh Livery Guild
Voluntary and charitable involvement
1987 -	Governor, the Dragon School (Chairman 2003-8)
1995 - 2003	Governor, Oxford Brookes University (Court 2006--)
1997 -	Oxford University Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors
1997 - 2007	Trustee, Oxford University Law Foundation
2001 - 3	Trustee, Oxford Institute of Legal Practice
2003 - 6	Chairman, Oxford University Law Faculty Development Council
2003 -	Trustee, Mansion House Scholarship Scheme
2004 -	Almoner and Governor, Christ’s Hospital
2005 -	Chairman, Lord Mayor’s Trust for Charities