1968 (Matriculation)
Cambridge University (St. John’s College)

1971
Bachelor of Arts (Distinction and Highest Honors)
Political Science and International Relations
Stanford University

1975
Juris Doctor
Stanford Law School
Thesis: “Chinese Frozen Assets: Impediments to Trade”
Editor: Stanford Law Review
Managing Editor: Stanford Journal of International Studies

1975
Research Fellow
Institute of Comparative Law, Faculty of Jurisprudence
University of Florence, Italy

1976 –1981
Attorney (Specializing in corporate law, with emphasis on international transactions)

• Davis Polk is a global law firm, based on Wall Street. Davis Polk ranks among the world’s finest law firms across the entire range of its practice.
• Client accounts include Morgan Stanley, J. P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency

BLYTH EASTMAN DILLON; PAINEWEBBER

1982-1986
Investment Banker

• Blyth Eastman Dillon and PaineWebber—leading Wall Street brokerage and investment banks—were consolidated and later acquired by UBS.

  

1986 –1992

Chairman/CEO. Merchant banking and fund management, New York, London, Hong Kong.

SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL

1992 –1996
Vice Chairman, SISCO(NA) Ltd., a joint venture with Shanghai International Securities, at that time the largest brokerage and investment bank in mainland China. Merchant banking and fund management.

1996- present

Various advisory, merchant banking, academic, professional, charitable, political and other activities, as more fully set forth elsewhere herein. 

Personal

1949 Born London, England

 

1950 Mombasa, Kenya

               

1954 Limuru, Kenya

                

1959 Kampala, Uganda

      

1962 Oundle School, England

    

1967 Travel, study–Teheran, Iran

                   

1968 Matriculation–Cambridge University

 

Undergraduate–Stanford University  (BA, 1971)

    

1972 Travel, teach–Mexico, Costa Rica

   

Law studies–Stanford Law School (JD, 1975)

 

1975 Research Fellow–University of Florence, Italy

        

1976 Attorney Wall Street, New York

               

1982 Investment banker–Wall Street, New York

1990 Married Elizabeth Lightfoot

 

1991-98 Four children (Graeme, Isabel, Alastair, Honor)

Private Equity Fund
University Teaching
Corporate Advisory
Government
Pro Bono

Nick Clements supports a wide array of organizations including: The Nature Conservancy, Yale Opera, Americans for Indian Opportunity, and the Montana Wilderness Association.

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