Eric Coutts, a Senior Harris Scholar of Downing College Cambridge, spent a year as Assistant Lecturer in Law at the University of Paris II and subsequently qualified as a solicitor with Slaughter and May. He moved to Goldman Sachs in 1993, working in mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring, and in 2007 joined Citigroup, where he was Citi Country Officer and Head of Banking, France. He returned to London in 2014, where he was Chief Executive of Edmond de Rothschild UK until 2019. Mr Coutts was appointed to the Board of Governors in 2004 and became Chairman in July 2018.