Chairman

Sir Nigel Wilson

Sir Nigel is the Chairman of CWG. He joined in July 2024 as the successor to Sir George Iacobescu CBE. Sir Nigel most recently held the role of Chief Executive of Legal and General from 2012 to 2024, having joined the company in 2009 as its Chief Financial Officer. Legal and General was voted Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2022 and 2023 and Sir Nigel was voted Britain’s Most Admired Leader in 2017. Legal & General managed $1.5 trillion.

Sir Nigel was knighted for services to the Financial Services Industry, Regional Development and Sport in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List.

Sir Nigel has served on the Business Councils of successive Prime Ministers he was also a member of the Government’s Levelling Up Advisory Council, the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy Implementation Board and is a member of the Science and Innovation Council.

He was the Chair of the Investment Association’s review of Executive Pay (2016-2017), and the government’s review of Mission Led Business (2016-2017). Sir Nigel was also a member of the Government’s Patient Capital Review Industry Panel (2017-2018) and a Commissioner in the Resolution Foundation’s Intergenerational Commission (2017-2018). He has also chaired the Bank of England’s Climate Financial Risk Forum, Innovation Working Group.

Qualifications includes a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a Kennedy Scholar and a recipient of the Alfred P Sloan research scholarship. Sir Nigel also worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Sir Nigel received a 1st Class Honours Degree and an MA in Economics from the University of Essex. He was also awarded Doctor of Civil Law from Newcastle University and a Doctor of Business Administration from Sunderland University in recognition of his work in Levelling Up, Regional Growth and University Commercialisation.