This Year's List of the City's Most Influential Power
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POWER STUART ROSE ANDREW TYRIE, MP 100 Chairman, 91 Chairman, Treasury Britain Stronger in Europe Select Committee New entry Last year: 84 CHERYL POTTER BILL WINTERS 99 Partner, Head of 90 Group CEO, Consumer, Permira Standard Chartered New entry New entry LADY BARBARA MICHAEL AND 98 JUDGE 89 YOEL ZAOUI Chairperson, Pension Founders, Zaoui & Co Protection Fund; Chair of the Last year: 83 Institute of Directors; Chair of the Energy Institute, UCL CAROLYN Last year: 98 88 FAIRBAIRN Director General, CBI PETER CRUDDAS New entry 97 Founder and CEO, CMC Markets JAMES LUPTON New entry 87 Chairman, Greenhill Europe JEFFREY Last year: 81 96 MOUNTEVANS Lord Mayor of London SIR GEORGE New entry 86 IACOBESCU Chairman and CEO, 88 SIMON COLLINS Canary Wharf Group 95 UK Chairman and Last year: 73 CAROLYN FAIRBAIRN Senior Partner, KPMG DIRECTOR-GENERAL, CBI Last year: 93 IAIN ANDERSON Executive Chairman, 85 Carolyn Fairbairn’s appointment as director-general of the Confederation of British Cicero Group PAUL PESTER Industry (CBI) marks the first time a female has held the post, but that’s not what 94 CEO, TSB Last year: 96 is munching the column inches. Her new job comes at a shaky time for British Last year: 92 business thanks to the looming EU referendum. The UK business lobby is firmly pro THIS YEAR’S LIST OF THE CITY’S MOST INFLUENTIAL ALEX WILMOT- EU membership, claiming that Britain exiting the bloc would cost us £100bn and JOHN MCDONNELL 84 SITWELL 950,000 jobs by 2020. “Leaving the European Union would be a real blow for living POWER BROKERS MAY HAVE SOME FAMILIAR Shadow Chancellor Presidet for EMEA, Bank of standards, jobs and growth,” the new DG added. 93 Fairbairn, a former journalist and McKinsey management consultant, of the Exchequer America Merill Lynch Economist FACES, BUT IN UNCERTAIN TIMES, THE TWO TOP is already a fan of Europe. She and her husband own the beautiful Crillon le Brave SPOTS MIGHT NOT BE WHOM YOU’D EXPECT New entry Last year: 80 hotel in Provence – the ideal place to rest an overwrought brain. FRANCES MURPHY KURT BJÖRKLUND 92 Partner, Morgan 83 AND TOM LISTER Lewis; Chief of Corporate Co-managing partners, Practice, Slaughter & May Permira Last year: 85 Last year: 79 STEPHANIE DARREN WESTLAKE CLARE WOODMAN 82 FLANDERS 81 Cofounder and CEO, 78 COO, Morgan PROFILES BY CATHY ADAMS Managing Director and Chief Crowdcube Stanley International Market Strategist for the Last year: 94 Last year: 99 UK and Europe, JP Morgan PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH •• Chase & Co CRAIG DAVID HARDING THE CBI IS FIRMLY PRO EU Last year: 70 80 DONALDSON 77 Founder and CEO, by Niklas Halle’n/Afp/Getty Images MEMBERSHIP, CLAIMING THAT CEO, Metro Bank Winton Capital Management ICON KEY Last year: 78 Last year: 74 NEW ENTRY BRITAIN EXITING THE BLOC DAVID BLUMER PAUL MARSHALL SAME AS 2015 Head of EMEA, Co-founder, WOULD COST US £100BN UP FROM 2015 79 76 BlackRock Chairman, CIO, Marshall Wace DOWN FROM 2015 AND 950,000 JOBS BY 2020 New entry Last year: 72 070 squaremile.com squaremile.com 071 POWER •• MARK MIKE 56 KLEINMAN 53 WELLS SINCE LEAVING A RATHER TRADITIONAL City Editor, Sky News Group CEO, Prudential FINANCE JOB IN THE CITY, SHE’S NOW A Last year: 58 New entry REGULAR PUNDIT AND WAS COVER STAR OF ZANNY MINTON BILL 55 BEDDOES 52 SMITH OUR SISTER MAGAZINE, HEDGE, LAST YEAR Editor-in-Chief, CEO, Lazard Asset The Economist Management UK Last year: 76 Last year: 55 GILES ANDREWS KATHLEEN BACON SIR JON MICHAEL LIONEL 75 Co-founder, 67 Managing Director, 57 CUNLIFFE 54 HINTZE 51 BARBER Executive Chairman, Zopa HarbourVest Deputy Governor for Financial Founder, CEO and Senior Editor, New entry Last year: 66 Stability, Bank of England Investment Officer, CQS Financial Times Last year: 59 Last year: 57 Last year: 54 ROBERT PESTON JOHN ARMITAGE 74 Political Editor, ITV 66 Cofounder and CIO, Last year: 44 Egerton Capital Last year: 95 JOANNA SHIELDS 73 Minister for Internet ANDERS BOUVIN Safety and Security, UK 65 CEO, Governmet; Non-executive Handelsbanken UK Director of the London Stock Last year: 65 Exchange Last year: 71 NIGEL WILSON 64 Group CEO, L&G ROBERT CHOTE New entry 72 Chairman of the Office for Budget SIR ALAN PARKER Responsibility 63 Chairman, Brunswick Last year: 69 Last year: 63 GEMMA JAMES C COWLES 71 GODFREY 62 CEO for EMEA, Citi Founder and CEO, Moo.la New entry New entry OLIVER HOLBOURN KAMAL AHMED 61 Head of Capital 70 Economics Editor, BBC Markets, UKFI New entry New entry ROLLY VAN IAN WACE RAPPARD Co-founder, CEO 71 69 60 Co-founder, Co-chairman, and Chief Risk Officer, CVC Capital Partners Marshall Wace GEMMA GODFREY Last year: 67 Last year: 51 FOUNDER, MOO.LA JAYNE-ANNE ANTHONY HABGOOD You’ll probably recognise Gemma Godfrey, even if you didn’t know her name. Since 68 GADHIA 59 Chairman, RELX leaving a rather traditional finance job in the City – she was head of investment CEO, Virgin Money Group; Chairman, Court of the strategy for Brooks Macdonald from 2012 to 2015 – she’s now a regular pundit Last year: 75 Bank of England (BBC, CNBC, TEDx), and was cover star of our sister magazine, HEDGE, last year. A former number one on City AM’s Fintech Powerlist, Godfrey has launched an online PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH Last year: 60 venture called Moo.la, which is a robo-advisor, or algorithm-based online portfolio ICON KEY manager, targeted at the gap between ultra-high-net-worths and those without the MARTIN GILBERT NEW ENTRY funds to use a wealth manager at all. To translate all the fintech jargon: she’s one by David Harrison by David Co-founder and SAME AS 2015 58 to watch in this increasingly important space. CEO, Aberdeen Asset UP FROM 2015 Management DOWN FROM 2015 Last year: 45 squaremile.com 073 POWER ROLAND RUDD BEN BROADBENT PETER MARTYR 50 Founder and 39 Deputy Governor, 33 Global CEO, Chairman, Finsbury; Monetary Policy Committee, Norton Rose Fulbright Chairman, Business for Bank of England Last year: 34 New Europe; Treasurer, Last year: 39 Britain Stronger in Europe ANDREW BAILEY Last year: 53 MARTIN SORRELL 32 Incoming, 38 Founder and CEO, Head of FCA LORD TIM WPP Group Last year: 33 49 CLEMENT-JONES Last year: 38 London Managing Partner, PIERRE DLA Piper International ANDREA ORCEL LAGRANGE TIDJANE 31 Last year: 52 President of Chairman of Man Asia and THIAM 37 Investment Bank, UBS Managing Director JIN CHEN CEO, CREDIT SUISSE Last year: 37 of Man GLG 48 Managing Director Last year: 32 and CEO, ICBC UK ‘Asia pivot’ has SIMON ROBEY long been a phrase New entry Co-founder and IAN POWELL bandied about in the 36 Partner, Robey Warshaw Chairman and halls of the White 30 HELENA MORRISSEY House, but now it’s reached26 Cabot Square. Not even a year into the New entry Senior Partner, PwC 47 CEO, Newton job as CEO of Credit Suisse, Tidjane Thiam is rebalancing towards Last year: 31 the East. Including, gasp, investment in China. Other jobs on his Investment Management; ICON KEY Chair, Investment Association 12-month ledger have included tackling a major restructuring, SIR JEREMY speaking out against tax avoidance in light of the Panama Papers NEW ENTRY Last year: 49 HEYWOOD and convincing the bank to slash his bonus. So a quite year for the SAME AS 2015 29 Cabinet Secretary, Ivory Coast-born banker then. UP FROM 2015 ANTHONY BROWNE Head of the Civil Service DOWN FROM 2015 46 CEO, British Last year: 30 Bankers’ Association Last year: 47 CRISPIN ODEY NIGEL LIZ BINGHAM ALEX SNOW 28 Founder, SAMIR DESAI 43 BOARDMAN 41 Partner, 35 CEO, Odey Asset Management 45 Co-founder and Partner, Slaughter & May Ernst & Young Landsdowne Partners Last year: 29 CEO, Funding Circle Last year: 42 Last year: 40 Last year: 35 New entry JAMES LORD ROTHSCHILD ALISTAIR DARLING PETER HORRELL 27 BARDRICK ARPAD BUSSON 42 Founder and 40 Fomer Chancellor, 34 Managing Director Country Officer 44 Executive Chairman, Chairman, RIT Capital Board Member, for the UK, Fidelity Worldwide for UK, Gottex Fund Management Partners Morgan Stanley Investment Citigroup Last year: 43 Last year: 41 New entry New entry Last year: 27 PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH NEIL WOODFORD (Thiam) FOUNDER & CEO, REX/Shutterstock (Woodford) Getty Images; via Dawson/Bloomberg by Simon WOODFORD INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT You know you’ve made it when your name becomes common parlance for being the best at something. Such is the case with Neil Woodford, Britain’s ‘star fund manager’, 20who blows out the candles on his eponymous firm’s second birthday cake next month. Woodford Investment Management’s flagship equity income fund is doing predictably well – soaring 18.7% since launch to end February – although his Woodford Patient Capital Trust, which invests mainly in early-stage British companies, fell on some harder times at the end of last year. The famous fund manager trumpets greater transparency in the industry and recently stopped charging research fees. 074 squaremile.com POWER ICON KEY JES STALEY MICHAEL SHERWOOD NEW ENTRY 7 Group CEO, Barclays 4 Vice Chairman, SAME AS 2015 New entry Goldman Sachs; Co-CEO, UP FROM 2015 Goldman Sachs International DOWN FROM 2015 DANIEL PINTO Last year: 4 6 Corporate and Investment Bank CEO, MARK CARNEY JPMorgan Chase & Co 3 Governor, STUART Last year: 6 Bank of England 15 GULLIVER Last year: 2 JES STALEY Group Chairman, HSBC CHARLOTTE Last year: 9 5 HOGG BORIS JOHNSON CEO, BARCLAYS COO, Bank of England 2 MP MARK BOLEAT Last year: 5 Last year: 23 No doubt alarm bells began to ring Chairman, Policy when James Edward ‘Jes’ Staley was 14 appointed chief executive at Barclays and Resources Committee, last autumn.