Andrew Bailey began his term as Governor on 16 March 2020.   In July 2025 he became the Chair of the Financial Stability Board.

Andrew served as Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) from 1 July 2016 until taking up the role of Governor. As CEO of the FCA, Andrew Bailey was also a member of the Prudential Regulation Committee, the Financial Policy Committee, and the Board of the Financial Conduct Authority.

Andrew previously held the role of Deputy Governor, Prudential Regulation and CEO of the PRA from 1 April 2013. While retaining his role as Executive Director of the Bank, Andrew joined the Financial Services Authority in April 2011 as Deputy Head of the Prudential Business Unit and Director of UK Banks and Building Societies. In July 2012, Andrew became Managing Director of the Prudential Business Unit, with responsibility for the prudential supervision of banks, investment banks and insurance companies. Andrew was appointed as a voting member of the interim Financial Policy Committee at its June 2012 meeting.

Previously, Andrew worked at the Bank in a number of areas, most recently as Executive Director for Banking Services and Chief Cashier, as well as Head of the Bank’s Special Resolution Unit (SRU). Previous roles include Governor’s Private Secretary, and Head of the International Economic Analysis Division in Monetary Analysis.

Benedetto Vigna was appointed Chief Executive Officer in September 2021. Since then, he has helped strengthen Ferrari’s leadership across racing, sports cars, and lifestyle, while setting out the company’s industrial plans in 2022 and 2025. These outlined Ferrari’s path to decarbonisation by 2030 and the development of Maranello’s manufacturing infrastructure, including the new e-building for the next generation of sports cars.

Before joining Ferrari, Vigna spent more than 25 years at STMicroelectronics, where he led the Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group and served on the Executive Committee. He joined ST in 1995 and founded its MEMS activities, helping establish the company’s leadership in motion-sensing technologies and expanding into connectivity, imaging, and power solutions.

He has filed more than 200 patents, published widely, served on several international boards, and graduated in Subnuclear Physics from the University of Pisa.

Baroness Catherine Ashton served as the European Union’s first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy between 2009 and 2014. Previously she was EU Commissioner for Trade, served as a Minister in the Departments of Education and Justice, and was Leader of the House of Lords and President of HM Queen’s Privy Council.

Baroness Ashton is a Distinguished Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars and chair of the advisory board of the Institute for Global Negotiation in Zurich. She was Chancellor of the University of Warwick. She is the author of the book “And then What?” She is a Nobel Prize nominee and received many awards, most recently the Order of the Garter, bestowed by HM King in June 2023. In 2025 she chaired the House of Lords inquiry into UK engagement with Space and sits on the European Affairs Committee.

Jean-Paul Agon joined L’Oréal in 1978 after graduating from HEC Paris international business school. He has spent his entire career at L’Oréal, where he successively led several of its brands, countries, and geographical zones, notably Asia-Pacific and North America.

He was appointed CEO of L’Oréal in 2006, and Chairman and CEO from 2011 to May 2021. He has served as Chairman of the Board of L’Oréal since then.

Jean-Paul is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of HEC Paris (since 2022), co-Chairman of the France China Committee, a member of the European Round Table for Industry, a Director of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) and Chairman of the Society of Friends of the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art. He is a commander of the French Legion of Honour.

Dr. Leslie Vinjamuri is President and CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Professor of Practice in International Relations and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London. She was previously Director of the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House, and Dean of the Queen Elizabeth Academy for Leadership in International Affairs at Chatham House, co-director of the Centre on International Studies and Diplomacy and Professor of International Relations (tenured) at SOAS, University of London. She co-chaired the Lloyd George Study Group on International Order and is currently co-chairing a Study Group on US250, Mapping the Global Future, with John Ikenberry and Charles A. Kupchan.

She is a frequent contributor to the international broadcast media, with publications on geopolitics, international order, diplomacy and human rights.

She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and vice chair of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.

Larry Kramer became President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science on 1 April 2024, after serving from 2012 to 2024 as President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where he led major strategic shifts on democracy, economics, climate change, and racial justice.

Earlier, he spent much of his career in academia, including as Dean of Stanford Law School, where he led significant educational reform, and in senior faculty roles at NYU, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan. He clerked for Judge Henry J. Friendly and Justice William J. Brennan Jr., and holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Chicago Law School.

A scholar of constitutional law and legal history, he is the author of numerous works, including The People Themselves. He also serves on several nonprofit boards.

Eloïc Peyrache has been Professor of Economics at HEC Paris since 2003 and has held a series of senior leadership roles there, including Associate Dean, Dean of Programs, and, since 2021, General Director and Dean. He also founded HEC Paris’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and led its equal opportunity policy.

A graduate of École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, he holds a master’s degree in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from Toulouse School of Economics, where he also earned his PhD, following visiting doctoral study at Northwestern University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

He also serves on several corporate and nonprofit boards and is President of a foundation supporting social mobility in education.

Bharat N. Anand is the Richard R. West Dean of NYU Stern and Professor of Business Administration, beginning his tenure on August 1, 2025. He joined from Harvard University, where he served for 27 years, most recently as Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

An expert in digital strategy, media, corporate strategy, and organizational change, Anand has written more than 60 articles and case studies and advised organizations worldwide. His book The Content Trap was widely acclaimed for its insights on strategy and digital transformation.

At Harvard, he helped launch Harvard Business School Online as its first faculty chair and later led university-wide teaching and learning priorities as Vice Provost. His work included overseeing major digital learning initiatives, supporting Harvard’s transition to remote teaching during the pandemic, and helping guide the university’s approach to generative AI in education.

He holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

Professor Micheal Cox helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre in 2004 and expand it into IDEAS, a foreign policy centre based at the LSE which aims to bring the academic and policy words together, in 2008. In a 2014 international survey, IDEAS was ranked 2nd in the world amongst the best university affiliated Think Tanks.