David Eldon

David Gordon Eldon (Chinese: 艾爾敦, born 1945) is former Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. He retired in May 2005, after spending 37 years with HSBC Group. He made a return to banking in 2011 and as of June 2015 holds the positions of non-executive Chairman of HSBC Bank Middle East, HSBC Bank Oman SAOG, and is Chairman of HSBC's Global Commercial Bank Risk Committee. He was a Senior Adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers in Hong Kong and China from September 2005 until 2014.

He commenced a career in banking with an Australian banking group in London in 1964, and joined The British Bank of the Middle East (now HSBC Bank Middle East Limited) in 1968. In January that year he took up his first position in Dubai, remaining in the Middle East undertaking a variety of roles in different countries. He was appointed Manager of Sharjah branch in 1973 and Manager of Ras Al Khaimah branch in 1977.

He took up his first position in Hong Kong in 1979 as Manager Special Projects in the head office of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. He later became a District Manager, with responsibility for the Bank's branches in Mongkok.

Eldon was appointed Deputy Managing Director of The Saudi British Bank (SABB) in 1984 and returned to Hong Kong in 1987, when he took up the position of Senior Manager (International Corporate Accounts). At the end of 1988, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer in Malaysia, and was promoted to General Manager in 1990. He returned to Hong Kong again in 1992 and later became General Manager in The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation's International department.

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