Bruce Carnegie-Brown

Bruce Neil Carnegie-Brown (born December 1959) has been Chairman of the insurance market Lloyd’s of London since June 2017, and is vice chairman of Banco Santander. He is also chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club, Cuvva Ltd, and is chair of the Leadership Council of TheCityUK. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Greater London in 2015.

Early life and education
Bruce Carnegie-Brown was born on 27 December 1959 in Freetown, British Sierra Leone. His father was an engineer and tobacco executive, and the family relocated often, including to Libya, Jordan, Tanzania and Malaysia. He attended Cheltenham College, in 1973 and leaving in 1977. In 1977, he won a scholarship to study English Language and Literature at Exeter College, Oxford matriculating in 1978 and graduating with a First Class Honours degree in 1981.

Career
After leaving university, Carnegie-Brown spent four years at Bank of America as an investment banker, before joining JP Morgan, where he worked for 18 years, including three years in Tokyo as chairman and head of their Asia-Pacific investment banking business from 1997 to 2000. He was a member of the Global Investment Banking Management Committee from 1997 to 2000 and a member of the Global Markets Management Committee from 2001 to 2003. From 2003 to 2006 he worked for insurance broker Marsh & McLennan as CEO of its UK, European and Middle East businesses.

Carnegie-Brown was later hired in 2006 as a managing partner at 3i Quoted Private Equity, leading an activist investment team. He left the position in 2009 before the company was acquired by its parent company, 3i.

Carnegie-Brown has since held numerous positions as chairman and non-executive director for multiple companies, including Close Brothers Group (non-executive director, 2006 to 2014); Catlin Group (non-executive director, 2010 to 2014); Aon UK (chairman, 2012 to 2015); JLT Group (non-executive director, 2016 to 2017); Moneysupermarket.com Group (chairman, May 2014 to May 2019) and Santander UK (non-executive director, 2012 to 2021).

He has been chairman of Lloyd's since June 2017, and a vice-chairman of Banco Santander since February 2015. From 2017 to 2020, he was president of the Chartered Management Institute. He was a trustee of Historic Royal Palaces from January 2015 until October 2019 and was a trustee of the Shakespeare's Globe Trust from 2006 to 2014. Carnegie-Brown was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Greater London in 2015.

In 2019, Carnegie-Brown was appointed chairman of InsurTech start-up Cuvva Ltd.

In October 2021 he became chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club. In July 2022, the club announced that a disciplinary panel had imposed a six-month suspension of his membership of the club, suspended for a period of two years, following a hot mic incident.

In April 2022, Carnegie-Brown was appointed chair of the Leadership Council of TheCityUK, an advocacy group promoting financial and related professional services industries of the United Kingdom.

Personal life
Bruce lives in Putney, London, and is married to Jane and has four children. His brother, Ian Carnegie-Brown, is an investment banker at UBS.