Alison Carnwath

British businesswoman (born 1953)

Dame Alison Jane Carnwath (born January 1953) is a British businesswoman, and former chairman of Land Securities.2

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Born Jan 1953.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of Reading3

Alison Jane Carnwath was born in January 1953. She received a bachelor's degree in economics and German from the University of Reading in 1975.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson.5

Executive

Carnwath began her career with Peat Marwick Mitchell, now KPMG, where she qualified and practiced as a chartered accountant from 1975 to 1980.

She then moved into corporate finance. She worked from 1980 to 1982 at Lloyds Bank International, and from 1982 to 1993 at J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co in London and New York. In 1993 she became a senior partner at the financial advisory firm Phoenix Partnership. The firm was taken over by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) in late 1997; she continued working for DLJ until 2000.

Non-executive

Carnwath has held several board roles. These have included Vitec Group plc (as chair), Welsh Water, Friends Provident plc, Gallaher Group, MF Global Inc (as chair), Barclays, Man Group plc, Land Securities Group plc (as chair), UK private equity firm Livingbridge (as chair), Zurich Insurance, Paccar, BASF, and BP (she resigned from BP 'for personal and professional reasons' in January 2021).

She is also a senior advisor to Evercore Partners.

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Awards

  • Date not recordedDame Commander of the Order of the British Empire6

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