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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE CEO OF NATWEST GROUP, ALISON ROSE

In 2019 Alison Rose became the first woman to lead one of the UK’s top banks. Prior to her current role Alison was Deputy CEO of Natwest Holdings and CEO of the Commercial Private Banking business. Alison has worked at RBS for 27 years and has held a variety of positions. She was invited by the UK Government to lead a review of the barriers to women starting a business and launched The Rose Review in March 2019. In conversation with Patrick Jenkins, FT Deputy Editor, Alison discussed the change she drove at RBS, the challenges of rising to a CEO position, and shared her top leadership tips.

22 September 2020
 

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Patrick Jenkins
Deputy Editor, Financial Times 

Patrick Jenkins is Deputy Editor at the Financial Times. He was formerly Financial Editor and Assistant Editor at the Financial Times since 2014. In that role, he shaped the FT’s overall financial coverage, with a focus on financial services and investment, working closely with the editors of Markets, Lex, FT Money, FTfm and the financial services team, contributing to leader writing and comment, while continuing to write for the Inside Finance column.

Previously, Mr Jenkins was Banking Editor from 2009 until 2014, leading the 10-strong global financial services reporting team. Prior to this he was Companies Editor, and before that Editor of International Company News. Prior to taking up this post, Mr Jenkins spent four years in Germany as Frankfurt Correspondent for the FT. He joined the FT Group in 1996 editing the newsletter FT world insurance report, before becoming a UK companies reporter in 2000.


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Alison Rose
CEO NatWest Group 

Alison is Chief Executive of NatWest Group having worked at RBS for more than 27 years. She joined NatWest as a graduate, and was most recently Deputy CEO of NatWest Holdings and CEO of RBS’ Commercial & Private Banking business. Alison is also a Non-Executive Director of Great Portland Estates plc, Trustee of BITC and Chair of the Scottish BITC Advisory Board and sits on the board of the Coutts Charitable Foundation.

 

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