Board of Directors

TheCityUK Board of Directors is at the heart of our organisation and brings together a cross-sectoral group of the most senior leaders from the industry. It oversees our strategic objectives, ensures the delivery of our work programme and provides key messages and governance for the recommendations from our work.

TheCityUK Board of Directors

Name Position Company
Omar Ali* Global Financial Services Leader EY
Julie Page Chief Executive Officer, Europe, Middle East and Africa Aon
Hannah Gurga Director General Association of British Insurers
Adam Farkas Chief Executive Officer Association of Financial Markets Europe (AFME)
Katharine Braddick Group Head of Strategic Policy and Advisor to the Group Chief Executive Officer Barclays
Sarah Melvin Head of UK BlackRock
Christopher Hayward Chairman of Policy and Resources Committee City of London Corporation
Sir William Russell Alderman City of London Corporation
Georgia Dawson Senior Partner Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Ian Stuart Chief Executive Officer HSBC UK
Chris Rhodes President ICE Futures Europe
Andrew Kail Chief Executive Officer Institutional Retirement Legal & General Group plc
Farmida Bi CBE Chair, Europe, Middle East and Asia Norton Rose Fulbright
Galina Dimitrova Director, Investment & Capital Markets The Investment Association
Miles Celic OBE Chief Executive Officer TheCityUK
David Postings Chief Executive UK Finance
Susan Allen OBE Chief Executive Officer Yorkshire Building Society
*Chair    

News

Blog

Guest blog: Guernsey - the catalyst fuelling Britain’s economic future

Blog

Foreign investment: a closer look at global trends

Blog

A closer look at the enabling role of financial and related professional services

Blog

Strategic Investment Opportunities Unit: Unlocking investment in partnership with government

Events

TheCityUK National Conference 2025

Our National Conference 2025 will take place at the Queens Hotel in Leeds on Thursday 27 November. This year's conference will be an opportunity to look at the role of our industry in enabling inclusive growth across the UK.

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TheCityUK Annual Conference 2025

Watch all of the sessions from our Annual Conference 2025, which brought together senior leaders from across the financial and related professional services industry with political and regulatory stakeholders to discuss how to maintain the industry’s competitiveness and its pivotal role in driving economic growth across the UK economy.

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