Georgina Philippou Board Member (lay) Georgina started her working life as a researcher in a major accountancy firm before moving on to become an investment analyst for an institutional client stock broker and then a major investment bank. Georgina’s career in financial services regulation began in 1992 when she joined the Securities and Investments Board (one of the FCA’s predecessor organisations) specialising in investigations, particularly of unauthorised business. She rose to FCA Acting Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight in 2014 and she has extensive enforcement experience across all areas of financial services, including dispute resolution through settlement and mediation, involving a range of financial services firms. She chaired the International Organisation of Securities Commissions' (IOSCO) Committee on Enforcement and the Exchange of Information and its Screening Group, which assesses applications to sign the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU) between 2008 and 2016. Her committees delivered IOSCO’s Credible Deterrence report and the new Enhanced MMoU. Georgina became the FCA’s Chief Operating Officer in November 2015 and held the position for five years. As COO Georgina chaired the FCA’s Executive Diversity Committee, its Executive Operations Committee and the Public Sector Equality Duty working group. She led the organisation’s move to cloud based technology and the operational response to the covid pandemic. She became the FCA’s Senior Adviser on the Public Sector Equality Duty in January 2021 and helped drive the FCA’s proposals for greater DEI across the financial services industry. During this time, she was a member of the City of London Social Mobility Task Force, helped with the creation of Progress Together, the new financial services social mobility membership body, and instigated the DEI Pledges of the UK Regulators’ Network. Georgina retired from regulation in 2022, after almost thirty years. She is now building a portfolio career around financial services, diversity and inclusion and volunteering at her local Magistrate’s court. She is a member of the Financial Reporting Council’s independent Tribunal, she is on the International Monetary Fund Expert Panel, she is Vice Chair of Ad Centrum, Armstrong Wolfe’s D&I initiative and she is Executive Sponsor of The Diversity Project’s Disability work stream. Georgina is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. Georgina is passionate about the arts and she chaired the Stratford Arts Trust, which delivered an inclusive and accessible arts programme to East London and beyond, between 2019 and 2021.
