Education

Eton College 1979-83

Oxford University 1984-87 (Oriel College Modern History)

Insead MBA 1990-91

Career

Lazard Brothers 1992-96

Goldman Sachs International 1996-2007 (Managing Director 2000)

Credit Suisse 2007-2016 (Head of UK Investment Banking. Led the rescue recapitalisation of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group on behalf of HM Treasury in 2008)

South Molton Street Capital 2017-2024 (Financial advisory)

Co-operative Bank in Manchester 2021-2024 (Director representing Silverpoint, Goldentree and other US shareholders)

Sole Protector Trustee of major family fortune across Wyoming, Jersey and Singapore

Other

Contested the Heywood and Middleton constituency in the British General Election of 1997 as a junior banker at Goldman Sachs and was defeated

Joined the House of Lords as Lord Altrincham in June 2021 (the Altrincham title was given to my grandfather Sir Edward Grigg MP by the Prime Minister in 1945, the name taken from the parliamentary constituency in Manchester that he represented through the Second World War)

Policy focus on financial services and the Financial Services Bill, and on mental health particularly teenage and young adult mental health services

Member of the Integration of Primary and Community Care select committee health enquiry 2023. Member of the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee 2024. Member of the House of Lords Finance Bill Sub Committee 2023-24

Family

Married to Rachel Kelly www.rachel-kelly.net who writes about mental health, with five children, one living in Los Angeles