Tom Glocer profile

Tom Glocer joined Reuters Group in New York in 1993 as Vice President and Deputy Counsel, Reuters America.

He was appointed Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Reuters America Holdings in 1995. In 1997 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer, Reuters Latin America, with responsibility for Reuters operations in Central and South America. In February 2000 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer, Reuters Information.

He was appointed to the Reuters Board in June 2000 and became Chief Executive of Reuters Group in July 2001.

Glocer is active in a variety of industry and civic organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of British American Business, the Advisory Board of the Judge Institute of Management at Cambridge University, the European Business Leaders Council, the Corporate Advisory Board of Tate Britain and the Madison Council of the Library of Congress. Glocer is active in several public education initiatives in New York City and London.

Prior to joining Reuters, Tom was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, Paris and Tokyo. He also has business start-up experience in the development of software for educational games.

Tom was born on 8 October 1959. He holds a bachelor's degree in political philosophy from Columbia University and a JD from Yale Law School. E-mail to a friend