David Thorburn (banker)

David Thorburn is a Scottish-born banker who is the chairman of the board at the Coventry Building Society.

In 1999 he completed an advanced management programme at Harvard Business School, United States.

[1][3][4] He stepped down from these posts in January 2015, at a time when the parent National Australia Bank was considering options for exiting the UK.

[2] From July 2015 to March 2018, Thorburn was an independent member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee,[5] stepping down a few months before the end of his three-year term to take up a non-executive directorship at the retail division of Barclays Bank, where he chaired the risk committee.

[6] From May 2016, he also sat on the global governance council at the multinational accounting firm Ernst & Young.