David Morrison

David Morrison was appointed as the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 24 February 2018. He also serves as the Chairman of the Company’s Audit and Valuation Committee and as a member of the Investment Committee. He sits on the Supervisory Board of JSC Georgia Capital.

Mr Morrison spent most of his career (28 years) at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP where he served as Managing Partner of the firm’s Continental European offices. His practice focused on advising public companies in a transactional context, including capital raisings, IPOs and mergers and acquisitions. Mr Morrison is the author of several publications on securities law-related topics, and was recognised as a leading lawyer in Germany and France. Mr Morrison previously served as the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of BGEO Group PLC from October 2011 until May 2018, and as a Non-Executive Director of Georgia Healthcare Group PLC from September 2015 until their delisting in August 2020, and served as Chairman of the Audit Committee (amongst other Committee roles) for both companies. In 2008, Mr Morrison turned his attention to conservation finance as the Founding CEO of the Caucasus Nature Fund (CNF), a charitable trust dedicated to wilderness protection in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. He now acts as Chair of CNF’s supervisory board, as well as serving on the boards of three other conservation trusts he helped to create. A principal focus of his role for these charities is the investment of a portfolio of over US$ 500 million in endowment capital. For almost two years in 2019-2020, David Morrison served as Georgia’s first Environmental Ombudsman.

Mr Morrison received his undergraduate degree from Yale College and his law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was also a Fulbright scholar at the University of Frankfurt.