Elizabeth Corley

Dame Elizabeth Corley exemplifies The Convener, a leader whose influence flows from gathering disparate actors around a shared table. After a distinguished executive career culminating as CEO of Allianz Global Investors, she chose not to retreat but to broker. She chaired the UK government-backed taskforce on social impact investing and then helped establish the Impact Investing Institute, an organisation explicitly designed to connect asset owners, managers, regulators and policymakers behind mainstreaming impact capital. Her chairing of the Schroders board reinforces the pattern, she operates at the junction points of finance rather than in a single silo. Her style is consensus-building and credibility-lending, using her standing in mainstream asset management to make impact investing legible to sceptical institutions. Corley leads by assembling coalitions and translating between worlds, the defining Convener signature.