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Vanni Treves is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

in 1940) is a former Chairman of Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

, former Senior Partner of City

City of London

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law firm Macfarlanes

Macfarlanes

Macfarlanes LLP is a corporate law firm based in London, United Kingdom. In 2010/11 it achieved total revenues of £94.7 million and profits per equity partner of £752,000. It has been described as forming part of a group of London-based law firms called the 'Silver Circle'...

and former Chairman (2001-2009)
of Equitable Life

Equitable Life

The Equitable Life Assurance Society , founded 1762, is a life insurance company in the United Kingdom. The world's oldest mutual insurer, it pioneered age based premiums based on mortality rate laying “the framework for scientific insurance practice and development” and “the basis of modern life...

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Treves is also the current Chairman of Intertek Group, Chairman of the National College for School Leadership

National College for School Leadership

The National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services is a British government-funded non-departmental public body which offers head teachers, school leaders and senior children's services leaders opportunities for professional leadership development.- History :Established in 2000...

, and a Vice Chairman of the NSPCC's

NSPCC

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is a United Kingdom charity campaigning and working in child protection.-History:...

FULL STOP campaign.

Early life and education

Treves' father was killed during the Second World War in 1944 and his mother remarried, hence the family relocated to Swiss Cottage

Swiss Cottage

Swiss Cottage is a district of the London Borough of Camden in London, England. Thedistrict is located north-west of Charing Cross. It is centred on the junction of Avenue Road and Finchley Road and is the location of Swiss Cottage tube station.-Etymology:...

in London

London

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. He won a scholarship to the independent St Paul's School in London

London

before attending the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

to study jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...

. Treves later completed a Fulbright scholarship in the USA at the University of Illinois. He relinquished his dual Italian-British nationality at the age of 36 when he realised that it made him eligible for national service

National service

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in the Italian Army

Italian Army

The Italian Army is the ground defence force of the Italian Armed Forces. It is all-volunteer force of active-duty personnel, numbering 108,355 in 2010. Its best-known combat vehicles are the Dardo infantry fighting vehicle, the Centauro tank destroyer and the Ariete tank, and among its aircraft...

Macfarlanes and beyond

Following his graduation from University College, Oxford

University College, Oxford

.University College , is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2009 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £110m...

, Treves joined Macfarlanes in 1963 and went on to become a specialist in corporate governance. It was this that led to his appointment as a Non-Executive Director of Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency network with 140 offices in 80 countries and over 6,500 staff. It was founded in London in 1970 but now headquartered in New York. The parent company of the agency group was known as Saatchi & Saatchi PLC from 1976 to 1994, was listed on the London...

in 1987. During the 1990s he went on to develop a career, as Philip Inman puts it, as a "serial chairman." In 2001 he took up the chairmanship of Equitable Life

Equitable Life

, determined to resolve its troubles.

Personal life

Treves is married with two sons and a daughter and enjoys "[w]alking, travelling, [and] collecting clocks and watercolours."

Early life and education

Macfarlanes and beyond

Personal life

See also