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Lesley Knox, Chairman of Grosvenor Group Limited:Women In Business

2014-03-21
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【Speaker】Lesley Knox, Chairman of Grosvenor Group Limited

【Topic】Women In Business

【Organizer】School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University 

【Time】Friday, 21st March, 19:00 - 21:00

【Venue】Room508, Weilun Building, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

【Guest Profile】

 

Lesley Knox studied law at Cambridge University and qualified as a lawyer first in England and then New York. She went on to a career in merchant banking at Kleinwort Benson where she became a director in 1986. She became Head of Institutional Asset Management in 1991 and was subsequently a Group Director.

In 1999, Lesley co-founded British Linen Advisers (a specialist corporate finance adviser) and remained as a director until 2002. She is Chairman of Grosvenor Group Limited and was until March 2012 Chairman of the Alliance Trust plc. She is a Non-Executive director of SABMiller Plc and Centrica Plc and is Chairman of the V&AatDundee, formed to build a new design centre in the city to provide a showcase for the best in international design. She is also a trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland.