Mulvaney Capital Management has announced the appointment of Dudley Fishburn as Non-Executive Chairman.

Fishburn has broad experience in corporate governance across the world. He served on the Board of HSBC Bank plc from 2002 to 2009 and is currently a director of Philip Morris International Inc. He also has served on the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and was a Member of Parliament for Kensington from 1988 to 1997. Previously he had been Executive Editor of The Economist for nine years.

Given a longstanding interest in higher education, he chairs the Visiting Committee to the Cambridge University Library and is on the Council of the University of Reading and the International Advisory Board of the Centre for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently Chairman of Henderson’s Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc and of a private IT company, Bluecube Technology Ltd.

Fishburn said on joining: “Mulvaney Capital’s sparkling record is the result of brilliant research, a tested mathematical system and rigorous discipline. Here is a small London company that ranks among the top in the world in its field: the City at its reputational best.”

Paul Mulvaney, the Firm’s Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer, commented: “We are delighted to have someone of Mr Fishburn’s stature joining our Firm. His wealth of experience at a variety of major international institutions will afford us keen insights into the market for our program and will ensure that we continue to maintain the highest standards of governance.”