Sir David Brewer CMG JP
Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London
Sir David is best known as the Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2005-2006.
He grew up in Hampstead, went to St. Paul's School, and now lives in Westminster. He commenced his career in 1959 with Sedgwick, and in 1976 he went to Tokyo to open the Sedgwick Group's Japan office and lived there for three years. He set up the Group office in China in 1981 and obtained the first broker's authorisation for Sedgwick in 1993. He opened their representative office in Mumbai in 1986 and has travelled regularly in Asia, and in particular to China, which he has visited over 100 times. He is Non-Executive Vice-Chairman of Marsh Limited, the company which bought Sedgwick.
He is Chairman of the China-Britain Business Council, and a Vice President of the Great Britain-China Centre.
He is Senior Consultant, Asia, with International Financial Services, London, a Board member of the UK India Business Council and a Trustee of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the Securities and Investment institute, of which he is a Board Member. He is a "Think London" International Envoy for London.
In 2006-2007 he was the Centenary President of the Insurance Institute of London, and he is President of the London Cornish Association.
He became an Alderman, for the Ward of Bassishaw, in 1996, and was a Sheriff of the City of London in 2003-4. He had previously been a member of the Court of Common Council from 1992-1996, and he has been a Justice of the Peace in the City of London since 1979.
He is a member of the Court of Assistants of the Merchant Taylors' Company (Master: 2001-2002); also a member of the Court of Assistants of the Blacksmiths' Company; and of the Insurers' Company; an Honorary Liveryman of the most recently formed (No 108) Worshipful Company of Security Professionals; a member of the Parish Clerks' Company; an Honorary Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn; a Treasurer of the Sons of the Clergy; and a Governor of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
He is a member of the London Symphony Orchestra Advisory Council, and a Director of the City of London Sinfonia.
Sir David was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London in April 2008. He is married to Tessa and has two daughters, Olivia and Gabriella. For recreation he enjoys music (especially opera and choral music), mechanical gardening, chocolate and paronomasia.