- published: 25 Feb 2015
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Stuart Gulliver (born 1959- ) is a British banking business executive. He is widely known as the Group Chief Executive of HSBC, a position he has held since January 1, 2011.
Gulliver was born in England and holds a Masters in Jurisprudence from Oxford University. He officially lives in Hong Kong and has a primary residence in Kensington, London.
He was born in the UK in 1959. His father Philip was a legal executive, while his mother Jean was personal assistant to the senior engineer at a local dockyard. Gulliver went to grammar school in Plymouth, Devon.
An avid boxer while at Oxford, where he studied law and received a Masters degree in Jurisprudence. In a 2011 interview to Financial Times, Gulliver recalls his humble upbringing and his childhood aspiration and said that – “I wanted to be a barrister, but my parents couldn’t afford it.”
In 1980, an HSBC executive serving in India urged him to join HSBC's elite international officer program, as it was called at the time, which paved the way for his banking career. Gulliver rose through the ranks in the bank’s Global Banking and Markets division and held a number of key roles in the Group’s operations worldwide, including postings in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and the United Arab Emirates.