David Gallagher is founding partner and Chairman of the board of Asset. In its first years he devised various original debt to equity conversion mechanisms, in which Chile was a pioneer worldwide. He has been advisor in the financing of large projects and on important mergers and acquisitions, mainly in the mining sector in Chile, Argentina and Peru. In 1974 he joined the British investment bank Morgan Grenfell, where he was in charge of the Latin-American division and, later, director of Morgan Grenfell International. During that period he also advised some of the largest mining projects in Latin-America, such as the development of the iron and steel project Açominas in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

He has been president of the British Chilean Chamber of Commerce. He is on the Board of the Chilean Public Studies Centre (CEP), member of its executive committee and director of Cencosud. He is also a director of the Chilean Counsel of International Relations, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venecia. He is Board member of the Arts and Culture National Counsel in representation of  Foreing  Affairs Minister and he is the President of the  Government Comission  for foreing investment legislation DL600. He writes a regular column for El Mercurio newspaper, periodically and reviews for the Times Literary Supplement (TLS).

David is the author of “Modern Latin American Literature”, Oxford, 1973, “Improvisaciones” Santiago, 1992 and “Otras Improvisaciones”, Santiago, 2004. He holds a B.A. (1965) and a M.A. (1968) in Modern Languages from Oxford University, where he was lecturer of Latin-American Literature and Fellow of St. Antony’s College, between 1968 and 1974. He is bilingual in English and Spanish, and speaks French, Russian, Italian and Portuguese.