Dame Alison Carnwath, DBE

Chairman, Land Securities

Alison Carnwarth holds the somewhat lonely position of being the only female chairman of a FTSE 100 company, and one of the few women chairing listed companies the world over. Beginning her career as a trainee accountant at KPMG in 1975, Carnwath now sits on the board of Land Securities, the largest commercial property company in the UK. In 1988 she became a director at the investment bank Schroders, a position so untouched by her gender that they had to install female loos especially. Becoming chariman of Land Securities in 2008 is considered by Carnwath to be her proudest achievement, and in 2014, she was awarded a DBE in the New Year’s Honours list.

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