Panel members

Background 

Clare Woodman is Head of EMEA and CEO of Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc. She is a member of both the global operating and management committees and chair of Morgan Stanley Europe SE. Clare was previously Global Chief Operating Officer for Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities Group. She joined Morgan Stanley in 2002 from Clifford Chance.

Clare is a Trustee of the Morgan Stanley International Foundation, overseeing the firm’s longstanding partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital, and she is an active sponsor of the firm’s Women's Business Alliance.

Clare is a member of TheCityUK Advisory Council.

Clare studied at the London Business School where she obtained her MBA.

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Mark is a corporate partner at Latham & Watkins who has a particular specialism in capital markets.

His areas of practice include public and private securities offerings of all types, along with mergers, acquisitions and general corporate work across a number of sectors. He regularly advises a range of corporate and investment bank clients.  He advised Lord Hill on the UK Listing Review in March 2021 and in October 2021 was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be the independent Chair of the UK Secondary Capital Raising Review, which reported to the Chancellor in July 2022.  He is a member of the Capital Markets Industry Taskforce (CMIT), the Digitisation Taskforce and also of the LSE's Primary Markets Group, an advisory group to the LSE on capital markets matters.

Sandy Boss is Chair of BlackRock U.K. and a member of the firm’s Global Operating Committee. Previously, she was the Chief Operating Officer for BlackRock’s Global Client Business. She joined the firm in 2020 as the Global Head of BlackRock Investment Stewardship, in which role she was a member of the Global Executive Committee.

Sandy was an external member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee from 2014 to 2020. She was also Senior Independent Director and Risk Committee Chair for the Bank’s Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)/Chaps Board. During this period, she served on the Boards of two listed companies (one FTSE 350, the other Nasdaq).

Sandy spent the first 20 years of her career at McKinsey. As a Senior Partner, she led the firm's Corporate and Investment Banking, and Credit and Counterparty Risk Management practices among other leadership roles in both the US and Europe.

Sandy received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA from Stanford University.
 

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Philippe d’Orgeval was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Amundi UK in January 2021.

In 1995, Philippe started his career at Rothschild Gestion as a Portfolio Manager and Buy-Side Analyst for four years before joining Pargesa in 1999 as a Portfolio Manager and Analyst. In 2001 he joined AXA IM as Head of Fund Research and in 2003 was appointed CIO of AXA Multimanager Ltd in London. In 2006, he joined the global risk department and became Chief Risk Officer in 2010. Philippe was then promoted to Head of AXA IM UK in 2016.

Philippe holds postgraduate degrees in Finance and Economics from ESSEC and the University of Orléans, respectively. He has a Master’s in Finance from the University of Paris IX Dauphine. He is also a CFA charterholder.

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Michael is Non-Executive Chair of London Stock Exchange plc. His other Non-Executive directorships include Chair of Morgan Sindall Group plc and Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee of Royal Mail plc. Michael spent some 28 years in investment banking working for firms including Robert Fleming, UBS and Merrill Lynch. He retired from Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2016 where he was Co-Head of Investment Banking for the UK and Ireland, having previously been Co-Head of Corporate Broking. During his career in investment banking, Michael has advised the boards of many leading UK PLCs on a wide range of strategic, financing and governance matters.

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Steven Fine is Chief Executive of the investment bank Peel Hunt. He joined the firm in 2006 and led the management and staff buy-out from KBC bank in 2010. Steven subsequently led the successful IPO for Peel Hunt listing on the Alternative Investment Market in September 2021. Prior to that he was the founder member of D. E. Shaw Securities International, which later became the core of KBC Financial Products. At KBC he managed the Japanese and Asian Equity, Convertible and Derivatives operations in Tokyo.

Steven is a Non-Executive Director for the Quoted Companies Alliance, a membership organisation that champions the interests of medium and small-sized quoted companies. He has been a judge for the Non-Executive Director Awards for over 15 years. Steven has an accountancy degree and also holds a certificate in corporate governance from INSEAD.

Robyn Grew was appointed CEO of Man Group in September 2023. 

Robyn has worked in the investment industry since 1994. She began her career at Fidelity, followed by a move to LIFFE, (now ‘ICE Futures Europe’). She has held senior positions at Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital and GLG which saw her based for periods of time in New York, London and Tokyo. Robyn joined Man Group in 2010, following Man’s acquisition of GLG, and has since served in various roles as General Counsel, Head of ESG, Group COO and President of Man Group. 

Robyn is a qualified barrister and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI).

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Richard joined the Boards of the Capeview Azri Funds in July 2021. Prior to his current role, Richard was the CEO of CapeView Capital LLP from 2017-2020 and was a Senior Advisor and Consultant during 2021.

Prior to joining CapeView as COO/CCO in 2011, Richard held similar positions at Montrica (2006 to 2011), OCH Johnson Capital (2005 to 2006) and ABN AMRO (1999 to 2005) where he was also Global Head of Asset Management Compliance for 18 months and Kemper / Zurich / Scudder (1995 to 1999) where he was the Finance Director and Head of Compliance in London. Richard trained with Deloitte Haskins & Sells before joining James Capel in 1987, where he was Head of Compliance / Company Secretary. He joined Solomon Brothers Asset Management in 1993 where he was Compliance Officer and Business Unit Manager. Richard is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds a BSc Hons in Management and Chemical Sciences from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

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Alasdair Haynes is a financial services innovator and disrupter. He is the founder and CEO of Aquis Exchange PLC, a stock exchange challenger.  Prior to establishing Aquis, Alasdair was CEO of Chi-X Europe (now Cboe), which was the first successful entity to break up the monopoly of the national exchanges, and before that CEO of ITG International (now Virtu), where he introduced the concept of dark pools into Europe.  Alasdair began his 30 plus-year career in the City with Morgan Grenfell and has held senior positions at a number of investment banks, including HSBC and UBS.  In addition to running Aquis, Alasdair is the Chairman of the CityUK’s new business council.

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David Livingstone was named Citi's first Chief Client Officer in September 2023. In this capacity, David is responsible for driving the delivery of Citi's coverage and capabilities to clients and enhancing the client experience globally. David is a member of Citi's Executive Management Team, which he joined in 2019.

Previously, David served for almost five years as Chief Executive Officer of Citi's activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Under his leadership, Citi grew all of its businesses in the region, including expanding the Commercial Bank. He also helped Citi to navigate the pandemic and led the firm's response to the war in Ukraine and the resulting sanctions against Russia. From 2016 to 2019, David was Citi Country Officer for Australia and New Zealand and a member of Citi's Asia Pacific Executive Management Team.

David joined Citi in 2016 from Credit Suisse, where he was Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking and Capital Markets Division and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for the EMEA region. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Australia from 2010 to 2013. David joined Credit Suisse in 2007 from HSBC, where he was Head of EMEA Investment Banking Advisory. Prior to that, he worked at the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. for over 16 years in a variety of senior roles in the investment banking division.

David holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Economics from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and a Master of Arts degree in Law from Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.

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Hannah Meakin is a partner in the financial services practice at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP and based in London. Her focus has been on the wholesale part of the practice and she has become a specialist in market infrastructure, commodities derivatives and Fintech.

Hannah advises on all aspects of compliance with key UK and European financial services legislation such as MiFID II and MiFIR, EMIR, CSDR, MAR, BMR and REMIT, as well as the PRA and FCA rules. She has particular expertise in brokerage, exchange trading, clearing, settlement, custody, client money, wholesale conduct and outsourcing.

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Cécile Nagel is the Global Head of Corporate Trust, BNY.  BNY Corporate Trust is the premier corporate trust provider with market leadership positions in a range of products including straight debt, catastrophe bonds, asset backed securities and loans servicing $14.1 trillion (as of June 2024) in debt across conventional to the most complex transactions. Cécile also holds the Head of Overseas Branch Function (SMF19) for BNY’s London Branch under the UK Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR).

Previously, Cécile led the EMEA business for BNY Pershing, which provides leading custody, clearing, settlement and trading solutions provider to wealth managers and other financial institutions. 

Prior to BNY Pershing, Cécile was Chief Executive Officer of EuroCCP (now Cboe Clear). Under her leadership, EuroCCP consolidated its position as the leading pan-European cash equities central counterparty, providing clearing services to 47 trading venues across Europe. Cécile also oversaw the launch of equity derivatives clearing service and EuroCCP’s acquisition by Cboe Global Markets in July 2020. 

Cécile held several senior roles with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), including head of LSE Markets Global Product Development and Exchange Traded Products and group head of Strategic Planning. She also led Equities and Commodities at LCH, LSEG’s multi-asset clearinghouse. Earlier in her career, Cécile was with Oliver Wyman, a financial services strategy consulting firm, and the Financial Services Authority. 

Cécile holds a master’s degree in Management & Finance from ESCP Business School and is a CFA charter holder.