Elanor R. Hardwick

She was born in London in 1973. She holds an MA (Cantab) from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She commenced her career in 1995 at the UK Government’s Department of Trade and Industry, focusing on the Communications and Information Industries policy, and subsequently held roles as a strategy consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Tech, Media and Telco practice and with the Institutional Equity Division of Morgan Stanley. Since 2005, she has held various roles, including Global Head of Professional Publishing and Global Head of Strategy, Investment Advisory at Thomson Reuters (now Refinitiv). Afterwards, she joined the team founding fintech startup Credit Benchmark, becoming its CEO (2011-2016). Then, she served as Head of Innovation at Deutsche Bank (2016-2018) and as Chief Digital Officer at UBS (2019-2020). Furthermore, she has served as a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of specialty (re)insurer Axis Capital since 2018 and since 2019 as a member of the Audit Committee. She has been a Member of the Board of Directors of the Bank since July 2020.