David Craig

Chief Strategy Officer

David Craig is the Chief Strategy Officer of Thomson Reuters responsible for the corporate-wide global strategy across the Financial, Media, Legal, Scientific, Tax & Accounting and Healthcare businesses. He is also responsible for the Innovation group. Following the merger announcement of Thomson and Reuters in May 2007, David was jointly responsible for the Integration planning for the $17bn Thomson Reuters deal which successfully completed in April 2008.

David was previously a partner at McKinsey specifically advising banks, technology and media companies. He also co-led the global IT Strategy Practice and the Outsourcing and Offshoring Practice. Prior to McKinsey David was a senior partner at AMS (American Management Systems) implementing trading, risk and telecommunications systems. David has published several papers on technology and strategy, including "IT as a competitive weapon" and "the M&A approach to Outsourcing".

David is also a trustee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Foundation provides training to journalists around the world, runs the Institute for Journalism at Oxford University and is the leading provider of news and information in Humanitarian crisis 
(www.alertnet.org).