Bernard was one of the co-founders of OSE, and has been on the Board since its foundation in 2015. Bernard has over 40 years of experience in managing companies
and providing corporate finance advice to UK and major international companies. He is Chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and a director of UK Biobank. He was previously Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase and CEO of Evercore Partners International, which he founded as a start-up called Braveheart Financial Services, and where he remains the Chairman Emeritus.
He is a retired member of the Council of the University of Oxford (trustee) and a current member of the University’s Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division Board, Medical Sciences Division Board, and a Director of Oxford University Endowment Management. Bernard is a past Chairman of the Ashmolean Museum, of the Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851, and of Garsington Opera. He remains Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Royal Society, and Chairman of Thomas White Oxford Ltd and of its joint venture with Stanhope plc and Cadillac Fairview. He is Deputy Steward of Oxford University, Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire and an Honorary Fellow of St. John’s College and of New College.
Bernard holds an MA in Chemistry and Doctorate in Civil Law, honoris causa, from the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
