Rob Morrison

Rob Morrison is the Chairman of CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, an award winning brokerage, investment banking and private equity group.

Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Hong Kong, CLSA operates in 15 markets, 11 of which are in Asia. CLSA was the first foreign investment bank to be granted a domestic joint venture investment banking licence in China.

In the 2007 Asiamoney Poll, CLSA was ranked as the No.1 broking firm for Asia (ex Australia & Japan).

Mr Morrison joined CLSA in January 2000 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer of CLSA Limited in 2002. In 2006, Mr Morrison became the Chairman of CLSA.

Prior to joining CLSA, Mr Morrison was an Executive Vice President and Head of Equities at Bankers Trust Australia and Chief Executive Officer of Bankers Trust New Zealand.

He is an Advisory Professor at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, and a member of the Asian Advisory Board of The Nature Conservancy, the leading conservation organisation working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

He is also a founding member of the Copenhagen Climate Council, a global collaboration between business leaders, scientists and policy makers to work together for a successful new UN protocol to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

October 2008