A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY SIR PATRICK BIJOU

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY SIR PATRICK BIJOU, SENIOR REDEMPTION JUDGE OF THE ICJ-ICC UN DEPUTY SECRETARY- GENERAL

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His Excellency Sir Patrick Bijou was born in Georgetown Guyana South America. He came to Britain at the age of 5 when his father obtained a scholarship to study and has remained in the UK ever since. Having been brought up in London he spent part of his education in England.

 Due to the scarcity of MBAs in the UK, his father paid for further education in the USA and Sir Patrick attended Camden College where he obtained his degree in Business Studies and later his MBA in Economic and International banking. Having studied and lived in New York for some 12 years he then secured his first job at Wells Fargo Bank on Wall Street and later went on to the trading floor specialising in derivates and the debt markets.

He then excelled as a bond trader and took up opportunities at various banks including Deutsche and Merrill Lynch on Wall Street. On his return to England, Sir Patrick established himself in the specialist area of debt capital markets, private placements and structured products.

He became responsible for the setup of MTN & Private Placement Desk and dealer function within Lloyds Bank PLC and was the first trader for Lloyd’s treasury for increasing significantly the portion of self-led deals from 4% to 32% in 2002.

Sir Patrick went on to excel as an investment banker and throughout his illustrious career was awarded many accolades such as Multiple Recipient, Wells Fargo “Valley of the Stars” award. Recipient, Wells Fargo “Circle of Stars” award, and Member of Wells Fargo Millionaire Club and Champion Circle, and became the notable banker he is today.

He further went on to manage “The Tigger Fund” and became Hedge Fund Manager for Blackstone. His expertise was so profound that he was eventually headhunted by the United Nation for a position within the International Court of Justice Redemption Department for his expertise in finance and has been elected into a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes.

He currently sits as a Senior Judge in the upper chamber of the ICJ-ICC. He manages to fit all this in as well as current roles as Fund Manager for ProCapital and UN Ambassador, philanthropist, and renowned author. Sir Patrick is a Global Ambassador for the International Rights and Welfare Association (IRAWA), Ambassador of the Royal Diplomatic Club, and President of the Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club.

In May 2021, he was appointed Ambassador by The Academy of Universal Global Peace USA as a member of the governing board/trustees and has also been awarded The Human Excellency Award.

One of his biggest career achievements is the creation of a line of credit for international supply chains as well as SMEs, for the public sector and government funding. He also created the financial phenomena that is Contract For Difference (CFD) a concept regarded as pioneering that today all banks and trading institutions now adopt. CFD has changed the way trading is implemented across capital markets by the use of clever leverage ratios.

He has written journals and books about CFD and how to become wealthy by executing his strategies and concepts for trading, asset management, and wealth creation. It became the distinguishing feature of his PhD thesis. Ref: Impact of Quantitative Easing Measures on Interest Rates, Financial Markets, and Economic Activity: A Case Study of USA to the Department of Finance and Commercial Law of the Haworth College of Business. As featured in a recent article in the Ibtimes.

His Excellency was finally knighthood for his services to Banking and Philanthropy.