Council
The IRSG Council sets the high level strategy for the IRSG.
Membership of the Council seeks to reflect the international, cross-sectoral nature of the City of London.
Members are invited to participate in a personal capacity and comprise senior representatives from the broad range of financial and related professional services sectors.
The following government departments and regulatory bodies sit as observers on the IRSG Council:
- Bank of England
- Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
- HM Treasury
Membership of the IRSG Council
| Farmida Bi (Chair) | Norton Rose Fulbright |
| Chris Hayward (Deputy Chair) | City of London Corporation |
| Jon Whitehouse (Deputy Chair) | Barclays |
| Kuangyi Wei | Accenture |
| Giles French | AFB |
| Adam Farkas | AFME |
| Meriam Fakhfakh | AIG |
| Bob Penn | Allen & Overy LLP |
| Frank Carson | AVIVA |
| Joanna Cound | Blackrock |
| Joe McHale | Bloomberg LP |
| Anne Marie Verstraeten | BNP Paribas (UK) |
| Ben Pott | BNY Mellon |
| Virginie Saade | Citadel Securites |
| Stephen Bartlett | Citigroup |
| Nick Collier | City of London Corporation |
| Damian Nussbaum | City of London Corporation |
| Caroline Meinertz | Clifford Chance LLP |
| Hubert Reynier | Credit Agricole CIB |
| David Strachan | Deloitte |
| Koen Holdtgrefe | Deutsche Bank |
| Michael McKee | DLA Piper |
| Chris Elms | Euroclear |
| Christopher Woolard | EY |
| James Smethurst | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP |
| Marc Rothemund | Goldman Sachs |
| James Chew | HSBC Bank plc |
| Janine Hirt | Innovate Finance |
| Rupert Rossander | Invesco |
| Richard Kaye | J.P. Morgan |
| Michael Kent | Linklaters |
| Benedict Brogan | Lloyds Banking Group |
| Cameron Murray | Lloyd’s of London |
| Kirstina Combe | London Metal Exchange |
| Jennifer Cosco | London Stock Exchange Group |
| Miranda Morad | MarketAxess Europe |
| Ben Wilson | Mastercard |
| Catherine Davidson | Morgan Stanley |
| Branimira Radoslavova | M&G plc |
| Andreas Gustafsson | Nasdaq |
| Chris Barlow | Nomura |
| Conor MacManus | PwC |
| Charlotte Stalin | Simmons & Simmons |
| Jan Putnis | Slaughter & May |
| Demetrio Salorio | Société Générale |
| Tracey McDermott | Standard Chartered |
| Sven Kasper | State Street |
| Miles Celic | TheCityUK |
| John Godfrey | TheCityUK |
| Jack Knight | The Investment Association |
| Simon Jowers | UBS |
| Sarah Boon | UK Finance |
| Shirley Girling | Willis Towers Watson |
| Observers | |
| Phil Evans | Bank of England |
| Cherryl Ng | FCA |
| Richard Knox | HM Treasury |