António Simões

António will join Legal & General in January 2024 as its Group Chief Executive and is currently on gardening leave from Santander where he has worked as the Regional Head of Europe since September 2020.

Before joining Santander, António spent 13 years at HSBC in a series of executive positions in London and Hong Kong; starting with strategy and M&A and then moving to leading different businesses as UK/European CEO and finally global CEO of private banking. Prior to that, he was a partner at McKinsey & Company’s London office working in financial services across several geographies.

António studied in Lisbon (Nova School of Business and Economics), Milan (Bocconi) and the US (MBA from Columbia University). In 2009, he was appointed a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and a few years later completed a WEF leadership programme at Harvard Kennedy School.
He is a vocal campaigner on youth unemployment issues and has been involved with the Prince’s Trust since 2012. He became a Trustee of Prince’s Trust International in 2018.

In 2012, he was invited to be a founding member of Conselho da Diáspora Portuguesa (World Portuguese Network), a group of Portuguese people living abroad advising the Portuguese presidency.

He was a member of the Practitioner Panel of the Financial Conduct Authority (conduct regulator for UK financial services industry) from July 2013 and was chair of the panel from August 2015 to August 2017. He was member of the Practitioner Panel of the Prudential Regulation Authority (prudential regulator for UK financial services industry) in November 2013.