Ep 101 Caroline Wagstaff CEO The LMG: Always a campaigning body

Todays’ guest is a formidable professional with whom I have been
sparring on and off for the last 16 years. But most of the time
that sparring would have gone on behind the scenes and not while
notebooks were open, or indeed, the microphones switched on.
That’s because Caroline Wagstaff, who has just been confirmed in
post as the permanent CEO of cross-industry body the London
Market Group (LMG), has spent her career working on the media
relations and strategies of top players in the industry. In this
interview we run through what the LMG is all about and what its
top priorities are. We talk about lobbying government departments
and regulators and selling the benefits of the London Market to
brokers, customers and future talent from around the world. There
is also a lot of detail around the recent success the LMG has had
in getting the UK Government to give regulators an obligation to
consider the impact of regulatory activity on the globally
competitive position of the market. Caroline says that a big part
of this job is about corralling all the hugely varied and often
disparate parts of the market together under common banners. This
job needs a very strong character to bring all the different
players together. Listen to this and I think you’ll see straight
away why the LMG board felt Caroline was going to be a good fit
for the role. I always enjoy spending time with Caroline because
she is so direct and there is no ambiguity – I think you will
too. NOTES I refer to The LMG 5-point plan early in the podcast
and I think I should have introduced it a bit better, so here it
is in all its glory:
https://lmg.london/news/lmg-launches-5-point-plan-to-help-seize-new-global-trade-opportunities/


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