Talking with… M&G's Anne Richards

Continuing Square Mile’s series of informal interviews

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M&G chief executive Anne Richards talks diversity and ESG, combining M&G and Prudential, allotments and atomic doughnuts with Richard Romer-Lee.

How did you get into the industry? By mistake. My first degree was in electronics and engineering and I was heading towards a career in academia, with my first job as a research fellow at CERN, the European organisation for nuclear research near Geneva. I worked on the Large Electron Positron Collider - which is essentially a big atomic doughnut. It was an amazing time but I wasn't sure I could spend my life looking for a particle that might take 30 years to find! I eventually wound up studying for an MBA at Insead in France, where I discovered and fell in love with financial markets. ...

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