20 Facts About Xavier Rolet

Xavier Rolet was CEO of CQS until January 2020, and before that, CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group.

Xavier Rolet was included in the 2017 Harvard Business Review's List of the Best 100 CEOs in the World and is a frequent speaker at business events.

Xavier Rolet is the eldest of three children born to military parents.

Xavier Rolet joined the Board of the London Stock Exchange in March 2009 and became CEO in May Rolet is noted for transforming the London Stock Exchange during his time as CEO.

In November 2017, Xavier Rolet announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group.

In November 2018, it was announced that Xavier Rolet would join the Board of Verseon as a non-executive director.

Xavier Rolet was a keynote speaker at the first European Securities and Markets Authority conference that was held in Paris.

Xavier Rolet delivered an address at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Xavier Rolet was a panellist at the Bank of England's Open Forum event.

Xavier Rolet contributed an article, Making capitalism popular again: learning the lessons from Lehman, to the Labour in the City Anthology, which was published in October 2018 to commemorate ten years since the Lehman Bros bankruptcy and launched at the City Corporation by Alistair Darling.

On 21 December 2018 it was announced that Xavier Rolet was appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of CQS, an $18 Bln Alternative Asset Management Company founded in 1999 by Michael Hintze.

Xavier Rolet was a member of Prime Minister David Cameron's Business Advisory Group, and is a member of the Governor of the Bank of England's Financial Services Forum and of the Bank of England's Open Forum.

Xavier Rolet was made a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of France in January 2016.

In 2016, Xavier Rolet was listed by UK-based company Richtopia in the global list of 500 most influential CEOs in the world.

In July 2016, Xavier Rolet was made an Officer of Morocco's Royal Sharifian Order of Al-Alaoui.

Xavier Rolet appeared in the Evening Standard list of London's 1,000 most influential people for several years.

Xavier Rolet was named in the 2017 Harvard Business Review's List of the Best 100 CEOs in the World, was awarded a 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award by Risk magazine and the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award by Futures and Options World.

Xavier Rolet has competed in several editions of the Dakar Rally, finishing 82nd in the 2009 edition with co-pilot Jean-Louis Juchault.

Xavier Rolet is the co-founder of Chene Bleu wine, which is produced at La Verriere in France.

Xavier Rolet renovated the estate and replanted vines during the mid-90s.