Nigel Wilson

Chief Executive, Legal & General

Nigel Wilson became Legal & General’s group chief executive in 2012 having joined as its chief financial officer in 2009. He has overseen a period of stability at the financial services company despite the drop in annuity sales resulting from retirees’ new freedom on how to spend their pension pots. In the past he worked at McKinsey & Co, Dixons Group and Stanhope Properties, and has held the position of deputy chief executive and chief financial officer of United Business Media plc. He attended the University of Essex, where he received a degree in economics, and went on to study for a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Kennedy Scholar. In 2014 the left-leaning advocate of long-term investment was named City AM’s Business Personality of the Year. 

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