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
| Kay Swinburne (Chair) | KPMG |
| Catherine McGuinness (Deputy Chair) | City of London Corporation |
| Jon Whitehouse (Deputy Chair) | Barclays |
| Kuangyi Wei | Accenture |
| Adam Farkas | AFME |
| Meriam Fakhfakh | AIG |
| Sean McGovern | AXA XL |
| 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 |
| Simon Turek | CME Group |
| Hubert Reynier | Credit Agricole CIB |
| David Strachan | Deloitte |
| Koen Holdtgrefe | Deutsche Bank |
| Michael McKee | DLA Piper |
| Andrew Douglas | DTCC |
| Christopher Woolard | EY |
| James Smethurst | Freshfields |
| Martine Doyon | Goldman Sachs |
| James Chew | HSBC |
| Janine Hirt | Innovate Finance |
| Rupert Rossander | Invesco |
| Pauline Hawkes-Bunyan | Investment Association |
| Richard Kaye | JP 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 |
| Catherine Davidson | Morgan Stanley |
| Branimira Radoslavova | M&G plc |
| Andreas Gustafsson | Nasdaq |
| Chris Barlow | Nomura |
| Tim Fassam | PIMFA |
| Duncan McNab | PwC |
| Sheila Nicoll | Schroders |
| Charlotte Stalin | Simmons & Simmons |
| Jan Putnis | Slaughter & May |
| Demetrio Salorio | Société Générale |
| Tracey McDermott | Standard Chartered |
| Sven Kasper | State Street |
| Miles Celic | TheCityUK |
| Simon Jowers | UBS |
| Sarah Boon | UK Finance |
| Shirley Girling | Willis Towers Watson |
| Ed Bridge | Zurich |
| Observers | |
| Phil Evans | Bank of England |
| Richard Fox | FCA |
| Richard Knox | HM Treasury |