James Dancer (Chief Executive)

James Dancer began his career in corporate finance with a major international financial institution before joining the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1999.  In the diplomatic service he held positions in London and Belgrade and was involved in initiatives as diverse as Yugoslav defence and intelligence reform and sanctions against the former Milosevic regime. 

 

He returned to the private sector and in 2006 founded Anglo Swiss Capital, a principal investment and advisory company with offices in London and Geneva and of which he is Managing Partner.  He joined ADRg Ambassadors LLP as Chief Executive in 2012 to bring together these backgrounds in foreign affairs and corporate finance.

In his early private sector career he worked for UBS Warburg in London from 1997, advising public European industrial, aerospace and defence companies on merger and acquisition strategies. 

 

James was in the diplomatic service between 1999 and 2003.  From 1999 he served in London on the Serbia and Kosovo desk on the implementation of financial and other measures against the former Milosevic regime in Yugoslavia.  He was then posted to Belgrade in the newly-reopened British Embassy with a brief on domestic politics and finance, where he covered Kosovo from a Belgrade perspective and addressed finance and financial crime in Serbia and Montenegro.  He led local discussions with the National Bank of Yugoslavia on the restructuring of around US$4.5 billion of loans through the Paris Club of sovereign lenders, for which the UK was lead nation.