John Crompton

ABOUT

John Crompton is an investment banker, board member, former HM Treasury official, and a published author on public sector finances.

John has spent the past 40 years working across investment banking, capital markets, and the public sector.

Having started his career at HM Treasury, where he worked on Thatcher’s privatisation programmes, John spent 20 years at Morgan Stanley in London, New York, and Hong Kong. At Morgan Stanley, John led the Europe, US and Non-Japan Asia Equity Capital Markets businesses, before becoming deputy UK head of the firm, responsible for building its UK banking footprint. John returned twice to the public sector: first as HM Treasury’s senior corporate finance advisor and after a stint as head of EMEA Equity Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch he returned to be UKFI’s head of Market Investments, managing the taxpayers’ stakes in Lloyds and RBS (now NatWest). John later spent 6 years at HSBC, where he led the global Equity Capital Markets and Corporate Finance groups.

John has since acted as a board member and advisor for a number of companies, and is an active investor in emerging FinTechs. John is also heavily engaged on issues relating to the management of public sector finances; among other areas, this has recently included collaborating with co-authors to publish Public Net Worth: Accounting, Government and Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

In addition to his commercial activities, John is a Foundation Fellow of University College, Oxford and is a mentor at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford. He is also a governor of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and has chaired development and fundraising boards for The Museum of London and the Cambridge Salvation Army Cambridge.