Helena morrissey newton biography

Baroness Helena Morrissey was Lead Non-Executive Director at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from July 2020. She transferred to Lead Non-Executive Director of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in September 2020 and remained in the role until June 2022.

Helena has over 3 decades’ experience in the financial services sector. This includes 15 years as CEO of Newton Investment Management, during which time the firm’s assets under management grew from £20 billion to £50 billion.  She was also Chair of the Investment Association from 2014 to 2017, the UK investment industry’s trade body.

Helena is well known for her work on inclusion and diversity. In 2010, she founded the 30% Club, a business-led campaign for better gender-balanced boards. There are now 18, 30% Clubs throughout the world.

Helena’s roles include:

• Chair, The Diversity Project
• Advisory Board member, Edelman
• Fellow (Governor), Eton College
• Chair Designate, AJ Bell

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Helena Morrissey Biography

Helena Morrissey is the Head of Personal Investing at Legal & General Investment Management. She is responsible for LGIM’s Personal Investing business. Helena joined LGIM in 2017 from Newton where she held the title of CEO for fifteen years before becoming non-executive Chairman. During her tenure Newton’s assets under management grew from £20 billion to £50 billion and under her leadership the firm developed a number of market-leading strategies in absolute return equity income and global equities. Prior to becoming CEO she was a Head of Fixed Income at Newton. She started her career as a global fixed income analyst at Schroders in New York.
Helena founded the 30% Club in 2010 a cross-business initiative aimed at achieving better gender-balanced boards through voluntary business-led change. The proportion of women on UK company boards more than doubled over the following five years and there are now eleven 30% Clubs throughout the world. Helena was Chair of the Investment Association from 2014 – May 2017 and is a member of the Financial Services Trade and Investment Board. Helena was recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the ‘World’s 50 Greatest Leaders’ in 2015 and as the Financial Times ‘Person of the Year’ in 2017 at its Boldness in Busin