Clara Furse is the Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange. She was appointed in 2001, and was the first female to occupy the position. In 2005 she was ranked 19th in Fortune magazine's Most powerful women in business list. The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ... The 2004 Fortune 500 issue The magazine Fortune was founded by Time Magazine co-founder Henry Luce in 1930 at the outset of the Great Depression. ...

Furse was born in Canada to Dutch parents, and educated at schools in Colombia, Denmark and Britain. She graduated from the London School of Economics in 1979 with a BSc in economics. The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist university and a constituent college of the federal University of London, located on Houghton Street in Central London, off the Aldwych and next to the Royal... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ...

She joined Philips and Drew as a commodity broker in 1983, and in 1988 was appointed as director of the company. Philips and Drew subsequently merged with the Union Bank of Switzerland, to become UBS Phillips & Drew, and later UBS. Furse became the Managing Director of UBS, primarily responsible for the UBS Global Futures and Options business worldwide UBS AG (NYSE: UBS; SWX: [1]; TYO: 8657 ) is a financial services company, headquartered in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland. ...

After leaving UBS in 1998, Furse became Group Chief Executive at Credit Lyonnais Rouse, where she stayed until December 2000. Crédit Lyonnais is a French bank. ...

In 1990 Furse joined the board of directors of LIFFE and was the deputy chairman from 1997 until May 1999. this entry is about LIFFE until the takeover by Euronext The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE, pronounced life as in human life, and never liff-eee) was the name of a futures exchange based in London, prior to its takeover by Euronext in January 2002. ...

Furse was appointed to the board of the London Stock Exchange on 24 Jan 2001, and as Chief Executive on 5 Feb 2001.

Furse's charitable interests include being a Member of the Advisory Council of The Prince's Trust and a Trustee of the RICS Foundation. The Princes Trust is a UK based charity headed by HRH The Prince of Wales. ... The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a professional body representing and regulating property professionals and surveyors of all types. ...

See also

• Deutsche Börse
• Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Deutsche Börse Group LSE: DHE is a marketplace organizer for the trading of shares and other securities. ... The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (outside) The DAX chart (inside) The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (German: FWB® Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse) is a stock exchange located in Frankfurt, Germany. ...

External links

• Clara Furse: A profile from the BBC (Jan 2001)
• London Stock Exchange Press release announcing Furse's appointment as Chief Executive.
• Fortune 50 Most powerful women in business list
• UK stock exchange defends its boss BBC news story (Feb 2003)
• Profile: Stock Exchange boss Clara Furse a profile from thisismoney.co.uk (Dec 2004)
• London School of Economics: World leaders