# Professor Roy Smith discusses Jes Staley's new role as CEO of Barclays

1 Faculty News October 13, 2015 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://www.wsj.com/articles/barclays-to-announce-new-ceo-jes-staley-source-says-1444685799) -- "'Jes has had a long career in banking doing a lot more than the securities business,' said [Roy Smith](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/roy-smith), a professor at New York University and a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker. 'But that’s a tough part of Barclays’s business for it to get right. Jes’s experience at the top levels of J.P. Morgan can only help."'

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