Biography

SIR GEORGE COX

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, NYSE EURONEXT

Sir George, age 68, has served as a director of NYSE Euronext and its predecessors since April 2002. Prior to that, he was a senior independent director of London International Financial Futures & Options Exchange (LIFFE) (

United Kingdom

) from 1999 until the acquisition of LIFFE by Euronext in 2002. He was director general of the Institute of Directors , an organization representing individual company directors in the United Kingdom , from 1999 to 2004, and director of Enterprise Insight (

United Kingdom

) from 2000 to 2005. Sir George also served as chairman of the Design Council, the United Kingdom ’s national strategic body for design, and served as a senior independent director of Bradford & Bingley (

United Kingdom

). He is also a trustee of VSO, a non-executive director of Shorts Ltd (United Kingdom ), the president of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, the president of Merlin (Medical Emergency Relief International), and a council member of Warwick University and chair of the Warwick Business School Board.