Awards & Recognition
★Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) 2023 for services to financial sector
★Honorary degree from Durham University (2021)
★Featured on Fortune's Most Powerful Women International list multiple years
Notable Facts
→First woman to lead a major UK bank (NatWest Group CEO 2019-2023)
→30+ year career at NatWest/RBS rising from graduate trainee to CEO
→Led government-commissioned Rose Review on female entrepreneurship
→Appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2023
→Currently senior advisor to Charterhouse Capital Partners and Chair of FNZ UK
→Resigned from NatWest in July 2023 following Nigel Farage banking controversy