Martin Harty
Walkers

Martin Harty is Group Compliance Director for Walkers Global. He has an MA (Oxford University), an LLM (Distinction) in International Taxation (London University), an Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (Distinction) from the Chartered Institute of Taxation and is a member of the Securities and Investment Institute in the UK.  Called to the Bar in London in 1976, he practiced as barrister there until 1986 when he went into the City. He has held senior regulatory and general counsel roles at financial institutions including Citibank and Fidelity. He was a main board director of Credit Lyonnais Capital Markets and Fidelity Brokerage and has also served as a non executive director of financial institutions in Europe and North America and has worked extensively in the areas of capital markets and investment management. 

He has sat on regulatory committees, drafting groups and chaired many conferences as well as sitting as an arbitrator for regulators in the UK and published articles on a range of investment management, legal and regulatory issues.