Sharmila Nebhrajani

Sharmila joined Coutts as a non-executive director in 2021.

Sharmila read Medicine at the University of Oxford, graduating with first class honours in Physiological Sciences. Rather than pursuing further clinical studies, she began an international consulting career in finance and strategy, specialising in telecoms, infrastructure and technology whilst qualifying as a Chartered Accountant. She had a 14 year career at the BBC including 9 years as Chief Operating Officer at BBC Future Media & Technology, the division that built the BBC iPlayer. She was most recently Chief Executive of Wilton Park, a not-for-profit agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office convening international policy dialogues on topics such as global health, regional and national security, climate change and artificial intelligence. She now sits on a range of boards including Severn Trent plc, ITV plc and National Savings & Investments. Sharmila is a World Fellow at the University of Yale and was made an OBE in 2014 for services to medical research.