Conran's Design Museum for seven years and a trustee of Whizz-Kidz for six years. In January 2009, Wigley resigned as Chair of Merrill Lynch Europe, Middle East and Africa following the completion of its takeover by Bank of America. Since 2004, Wigley had chaired Merrill Lynch's EMEA Region Executive Committee with responsibility for a business with $6bn of revenue, $3bn of pretax income and 8,000 employees in 23 countries. He sat on Merrill Lynch's Global Operating Committee and Client Coverage Council. During this time, he was a member of the Senior Practitioner Committee of the Financial Services Authority, the FSA's nominated representative on the Market Consultative Panel of the Committee of European Securities Regulators, sat on the boards of LCH.Clearnet plc (Chairing its nomination committee) and Euroclear plc (and its strategy committee), was a member of the Chancellor's "wise men" group representing key financial stakeholders in London, was a member of the chairman's Committee of the London Investment Banking Association, a member of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (and its remuneration committee) and on the EU Advisory Panel of the City of London Corporation. Previous roles at Merrill Lynch included Chairman of European Investment Banking, Global Head of Telecoms, Media and Technology Investment Banking, Head of UK Investment Banking and Head of Corporate Broking. References Living people Merrill (company) people People educated at Exeter School Year of birth missing (living people)