Expert resume of Dame Elizabeth Corley

Dame Elizabeth Corley is chair of the Impact Investing Institute and is also a non-executive director of FTSE and S&P100 companies.  Elizabeth has extensive experience in the financial services industry having been CEO of Allianz Global Investors, initially for Europe then globally, from 2005 to 2016.  She continued to act as an advisor to the company until the end of 2019.   Elizabeth is active in representing the investment industry and developing standards within it.  Her other activities include being a director of the Green Finance Institute; a trustee of the British Museum; and a member of the 300 Group of investors and of C200, an international community of leading business women.  She is a published novelist of crime fiction.

Elizabeth has extensive experience in the financial services industry having been CEO of Allianz Global Investors, initially for Europe then globally, from 2005 to 2016. She continued to act as an advisor to the company until the end of 2019. Elizabeth was previously at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (formerly Mercury Asset Management), Coopers & Lybrand and Sun Alliance. Elizabeth is active in representing the investment industry and developing standards within it.

She is a non-executive director of Pearson plc, BAE Systems plc and Morgan Stanley Inc.

Elizabeth is chair of the board of the Impact Investing Institute; a director of the Green Finance Institute; serves on the investment committee of the Leverhulme Trust; is a member of the CFA Future of Finance Advisory Council, AQR Asset Management Institute, the Committee of 200, an international community of leading business women and the 300 Club, a global, independent group of leading investment professionals.

As well as being a trustee of the British Museum, Elizabeth is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is also a published author of crime thrillers. She was awarded a CBE in January 2015 and a DBE in June 2019 for services to the economy and financial services.

In 2016 Elizabeth received an honorary doctorate from the London Institute of Banking and Finance (formerly the IFS University College) and in June 2019 she was made an honorary fellow of the London Business School.