Bio

Prior experience includes Chief Executive of M&G and Director of Prudential Group plc; Global Chief Investment Officer, Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Director of Aberdeen Asset Management; Chief Executive (joint) and Director of Edinburgh Fund Managers PLC. Member of HM Treasury Asset Management Taskforce, the HMT/DIT Financial Services Trade Advisory Group and the Working Group for Productive Finance. Member of the Sustainable Markets Initiative Joint Task Force of Asset Owners and Asset Managers. Regular speaker at conferences around the world on a wide variety of business, investment, pensions, economic and market related topics. Also a strong advocate of the need for diversity in the workplace generally and in the board room in particular. European Chief Investment Officer award (Funds Europe100, 2012). 100 Women in Hedge Funds European Industry Leadership Award (2014). FN100 Influential Women in European Finance. Fortune Most Powerful Women International Appointed a Dame (DBE) in 2021 and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 2014. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. (FRSE). Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Sainsbury Management Fellow. An experienced non-executive director and chair with a variety of public companies and not for profit organisations, including the UK insurance company, esure; the CERN & Society Foundation; and the University of Edinburgh. Vice Chair of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Insurance and Asset Management. (2014-2016) Member of the UK Digital Skills Taskforce (2013-2014) Member of Independent Advisory Group for Sir John Kingman’s Review of the FRC (2018) Chair of the Financial Conduct Authority Practitioner Panel (2016 - 2018)