Educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford, Simon is also a qualified Chartered Accountant. He has worked in a variety of senior positions for multi national companies in America and the Far East and joined the London Metal Exchange in London from Jardine Fleming Limited in Hong Kong where he was Chief Operating Officer.  Simon Heale was Chief Executive of the London Metal Exchange from July 2001 to November 2006. Simon is now a non-Executive Director of The Morgan Crucible Company Ltd, Kazakhmys plc, Marex Financial, PZ Cussons and Panmure Gordon & Co Ltd. In January 2007, Simon was appointed Chief Executive of CHINA NOW, putting together a nationwide festival that will showcase contemporary China through hundreds of diverse events in the run up to the Beijing Olympic games. The CHINA NOW festival started on Chinese New Year 2008.