Name
Michelle Scrimgeour
Job Title
Legal & General Investment Management
Company
Legal & General Investment Management
Speaker Bio
Michelle was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) in July 2019. Michelle has spent her career at major global firms and has extensive asset management experience across investments, distribution, product, operations and risk.
Before joining LGIM, Michelle was Chief Executive Officer, EMEA, at Columbia Threadneedle Investments and a member of the Executive Leadership Team of Ameriprise Financial. Prior to that, she was Chief Risk Officer at M&G Investments and a Director of M&G Group Limited, whom she joined in 2012 from BlackRock.
Michelle held a number of senior leadership positions at BlackRock, and previously at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and Mercury Asset Management, including Chief Operating Officer, International Fixed Income; Global Head of Fixed Income Product and Head of Alternative Investments.
Michelle is Deputy Chair of the Investment Association, Chair of the Asset Management Taskforce Technology Working Group and a member of the FCA’s Practitioner Panel, she Co-Chaired the COP26 Business Leaders Group. Michelle holds a BA (Hons) in French from the University of Sheffield.
Before joining LGIM, Michelle was Chief Executive Officer, EMEA, at Columbia Threadneedle Investments and a member of the Executive Leadership Team of Ameriprise Financial. Prior to that, she was Chief Risk Officer at M&G Investments and a Director of M&G Group Limited, whom she joined in 2012 from BlackRock.
Michelle held a number of senior leadership positions at BlackRock, and previously at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and Mercury Asset Management, including Chief Operating Officer, International Fixed Income; Global Head of Fixed Income Product and Head of Alternative Investments.
Michelle is Deputy Chair of the Investment Association, Chair of the Asset Management Taskforce Technology Working Group and a member of the FCA’s Practitioner Panel, she Co-Chaired the COP26 Business Leaders Group. Michelle holds a BA (Hons) in French from the University of Sheffield.