Leadership Council

Our Leadership Council brings together a cross-sectoral group of the most senior leaders from the industry.

The Leadership Council approves our strategy and its members lead on major programmes of work.

They work alongside the Board of Directors to ensure that we achieve our objectives and meet the demands of our members. These meetings are regularly attended by Government Ministers, senior regulators, Ambassadors and other leading stakeholders.

TheCityUK Leadership Council

Lady Mayor of The City of London *

 

City of London Corporation

Anne Richards DBE

Chair

Leadership Council

Denise Gibson

UK Managing Partner

A&O Shearman

George Marcotte

Senior Managing Director & Chief Strategy Officer UKI&A

Accenture

Aster Crawshaw

Senior Partner

Addleshaw Goddard LLP

Chris Townsend

Member of the Board of Management

Allianz SE

Chris Rash

Chief Executive Officer

American International Group UK Limited

Eric Bramoullé

CEO

Amundi UK

Julie Page

Chief Executive Officer, EMEA

Aon EMEA

Juan Blasco

Chair

Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME)

Baroness Kay Swinburne

Chair

Association of British Insurers (ABI)

George Culmer

Chairman

Aviva

Edward Poulton

Managing Partner, London

Baker McKenzie

Fernando Vicario

UK Country Head

Bank of America

Nigel Higgins

Chairman

Barclays Bank plc

Sandra Boss

UK Chair

BlackRock

Constantin Cotzias

Director

Bloomberg Europe

Emmanuelle Bury

UK Country Head

BNP Paribas

Helen Oldfield

EMEA General Counsel

BNY

Dean Frankle

Managing Director & Partner

Boston Consulting Group

Tiina Lee

Chief Executive Officer, Citi UK

Citigroup

Christopher Hayward

Chairman of Policy and Resources Committee

City of London Corporation

Adrian Cartwright

Global Senior Partner

Clifford Chance

Keith Grose

UK Chief Executive Officer

Coinbase

Atul Sodhi

Senior Country Officer

Credit Agricole CIB

John Devine

Chairman of the Board

Credit Suisse International (a UBS Group company)

Suresh Kanwar

Managing Partner, Financial Services

Deloitte LLP

Vathany Vijayaratna

Chief Executive Officer, UK & Ireland

Deutsche Bank

Sandra Wallace CBE

Deputy Managing Partner and Managing Director International Practice Groups

DLA Piper UK LLP

Robert Hingley

Chairman

Euroclear UK & International

Martina Keane

UK and Ireland Financial Services Leader

EY

Peter Horrell

Chairman, Fidelity Holdings (UK) Ltd

Fidelity International

Mark Hoban

Chair

Financial Services Skills Commission

Georgia Dawson

Senior Partner

Freshfields

Paul Sykes

Chairman

Guernsey Finance

James Palmer CBE

Partner

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Sharon Lewis

Partner, Sector Group Leader & Head of Financial Institutions and Insurance

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

David Shalders

Group Chief Operating Officer

Howden Group

Brendan Nelson

Group Chair

HSBC Holdings

Chris Rhodes

President

ICE Futures Europe

Rupert Rossander

General Counsel, EMEA

Invesco

Bill Simpson

Chief Executive Officer

Jane Street Financial Ltd

Anna Dunn

UK CEO & EMEA CFO

J.P. Morgan

Joe Moynihan

CEO

Jersey Finance

Jon Holt

UK Chief Executive & Senior Partner

KPMG

António Simões

Group Chief Executive Officer

Legal & General Group plc

Paul Lewis

Firmwide Managing Partner

Linklaters LLP

Sir Charles Roxburgh KCB

Chair

Lloyd’s

Sir Robin Budenberg

Chairman

Lloyds Banking Group

EJ Hentenaar

Chief Executive

Lockton International

Don Robert

Chairman

London Stock Exchange Group

Sir Edward Braham

Chair

M&G Plc

Lisa Quest

Chief Executive Officer, UK

Marsh

Kapil Chandra

Senior Partner

McKinsey & Company

TS Anil

Group Chief Executive Officer

Monzo Bank

Clare Woodman

CEO and Head of EMEA

Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc

John Zecca

Executive Vice President, Chief Legal, Risk & Regulatory Officer

Nasdaq

Nigel Smith

UK CEO

Ninety One

Sir Tom Scholar

Non-Executive Chair

Nomura International

Farmida Bi CBE

Chair, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Kester Scrope

Chief Executive

Odgers Berndtson

Sir Nicholas Lyons

Chair of the Group Board

Phoenix Group

Darren Ketteringham

UK Leader of Financial Services & Partner

PwC

Jordan Sinclair

President, UK

Robinhood

Bruce Carnegie-Brown

Chairman

Rothesay Life

Robert Leitão

Managing Partner

Rothschild & Co

Sir Tom Scholar

Chair

Santander UK

Charlotte Stalin

Partner, Head of Financial Institutions Sector Group

Simmons & Simmons

Roland Turnill

Senior Partner

Slaughter and May

Thierry d’Argent

CEO, SG London Branch & Chief Country Officer, UK & Ireland

Société Générale

Mark FitzPatrick

Chief Executive Officer

St. James’s Place

Maria Ramos

Group Chair

Standard Chartered Bank

Raman Bhatia

Group Chief Executive Officer

Starling Bank

Michael Eldridge

UK Country Head

State Street

Barnabas Reynolds

Partner

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Omar Ali CBE

Chair

TheCityUK Board

Tim Fassam

Chair

TheCityUK Public Affairs Group

Ann Prendergast

Chair

The Investment Association

Bob Wigley

Chairman

UK Finance

Andreas Utermann

Chairman

Vontobel

Evgeny Gaevoy

Founder and CEO

Wintermute

Zar Amrolia

Chairman

XTX Markets

*President

 

 

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IFN UK Forum 2026

We are delighted to support the IFN UK Forum 2026, Europe’s longest running Islamic finance conference, which will take place on Monday 7 September in London at the Mansion House

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TheCityUK National Conference 2026

Our National Conference 2026 will take place at the Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel on Thursday 19 November 2026.

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