British Nigel Wilson was born on November 17, 1956. He earned his economics degree from the University of Warwick. Nigel holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has held a number of senior positions in companies he worked for before becoming the CEO of insurance company Legal & General Group. He became the CEO on June 30, 2012, succeeding Tim Breedon. In 2009, Nigel joined Legal & General as Group Financial Officer and played a leading role in charting the insurance company through the financial crisis.
Prior to Legal & General, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. where his clients included BP, Citibank, Cadbury’s, Santander, Kingfisher, Courtaulds, Whitbread and Globe Investment Trust. Nigel was Managing Director at Stanhope Properties, Head of Corporate Finance and Group Commercial Director at Dixons Group and Chief Executive, Corporate at Guinness Peat Aviation.
In 1996, he was appointed Group Finance Director of Viridian Group, the Irish energy firm, helping to build the company’s Viridian Capital portfolio. This work would propel him to become Managing Director of Viridian Capital in 2000.
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