Carolyn fairbairn biography
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Carolyn Fairbairn
Biographical Information
Joined the board of Lloyds Banking Group "on 1 June 2012. A non-executive director of The Vitec Group plc and a member of its Audit, Nominations and Remuneration Committees. She served as a non-executive director of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) between 2008 and 2011 and was Chair of the FSA’s Risk Committee from 2010 - 2011. Until April 2011, she was Director of Group Development and Strategy at ITV plc, having also spent eight years at the BBC including fem years as Director of Strategy and a member of its Executive Board. She has also been a partner at McKinsey & Co. and a policy adviser in the Prime Minister’s Policy enhet. Carolyn began her career as an Economist at the World Bank. In January 2012, she was appointed a trustee of Marie Curie Cancer Care." [1]
"Until the end of 2020, Dame Carolyn Fairbairn was the Director-General Confederation of British Industry. An economist bygd training, her career spans lead
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Carolyn Fairbairn
British businesswoman
Dame Carolyn Julie FairbairnDBE (born 13 December 1960[1]) is a British businesswoman, former director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, and a former non-executive director of the Competition and Markets Authority, Lloyds Banking Group, BAE Systems, and the UK Statistics Authority. She has been the Chair of the Royal Mencap Society since March 2022.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Fairbairn attended Bryanston School as a sixth-form scholar.[3] She graduated with a BA in economics (double first) from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, then an MA in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by an MBA from INSEAD in France.[4]
Career
[edit]She began her career as an economist at the World Bank. In 1985, she became a business and financial journalist, writing for The Economist magazine.[5]
In 1988, she joined McKinsey & Compan
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Dame Carolyn Fairbairn
“Caius and my years there taught me how to argue, how to stand my ground, the importance of facts, and why you should question most things you assume are true.”
Dame Carolyn Fairbairn (1980 Economics), Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
I was only the second year of women at Caius so we were still quite a novelty. Q staircase by the Porters Lodge, where I spent my first year, was designated an all female staircase – all the better to keep an eye on us.
I chose to read Economics without really knowing what it was, and always thought I would change to Law. But it was a fascinating time for economics – a fierce battle of ideas between Keynes and Friedman, with Cambridge at the heart of it – and I got hooked. I had an inspirational Director of Studies – economic historian Dr Iain Macpherson – who was both challenging and encouraging to his very first female economists. There were two of us, and we became firm friends. His su