Robert Leitão

Robert Leitão – Managing Partner / Co-Chairman of the Group Partners Committee / Head of Global Advisory / CEO of NM Rothschild & Sons

Robert Leitão is Managing Partner of Rothschild & Co, responsible for the Group’s strategy, leadership and operations across its global network of more than 50 offices.

He is Co-Chairman of the Rothschild & Co Group Partners Committee, Head of Global Advisory and Chief Executive of NM Rothschild & Sons in the United Kingdom.

Prior to joining Rothschild & Co in 1998, Robert Leitão was a Director and Head of UK M&A at Morgan Grenfell & Co. Limited. He graduated with a degree in Engineering from Imperial College, London, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co (KPMG).

Robert Leitão is also an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of NYSE listed Manchester United plc; a Member of the Advisory Board of Lowy Family Partners, the private investment business and family office of the Lowy family; Chairman of the not-for-profit digital charity box, Pennies Foundation, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.