I have worked for over 25 years at Charles Stanley, an investment management and stockbroking firm based in Cornhill Ward in the City. I am the fourth generation of my family to work in the business and to be involved in the civic City.

As a senior compliance officer and the policy representative to industry trade associations, the Investment Association (IA) and The Investment & Savings Alliance (TISA), I focus on regulatory policy development in London and Brussels. This brings me into contact with other trade associations, as well as with the FCA, HM Treasury and the European Commission. Current work has a significant focus on green finance – for a number of years I have chaired TISA’s Responsible & Sustainable Investment Committee, looking to develop green investment standards, and I am a member of a number of IA working groups focused on the same.

I am aged 51 and am:

• a graduate of Oxford University and London Business School – and a Boxing Blue
• President of the Lime Street & Cornhill Ward Club
• a member of the City of London Club in Cornhill Ward
• a churchwarden at St Michael Cornhill, where two generations of my family have been married
• independent of any political party
• a member of the City Corporation’s Investment Committee, which oversees the authority’s property and investment portfolios
• a trustee of the City of London Academies Trust, responsible for ten inner London academies, and a member of the City’s Education Board
• Chair of Governors at City of London Shoreditch Park and the new City Junior School, opening in September 2022
• a governor at two independent City schools, the City of London School for Girls and City of London Freemen’s
• a Liveryman in two Livery Companies, the Worshipful Company of Gardeners and the Fletchers. I am a member of the governing Court of the Gardeners, where I chair the Communications Committee
• a governor of Capel Manor College in Enfield, London’s premier horticultural college, and a trustee of two educational foundations: United Westminster & Greycoat Foundation, and Central Foundation Schools of London, which runs two voluntary-aided comprehensive secondaries: one for boys in Old Street, and one for girls in Bow