Lesley Knox

Lesley Knox （Chairman） is a Trustee of the Grosvenor Estate， Chairman of Alliance Trust PLC and the Senior Non-Executive Director of Hays plc. She qualified as a solicitor and then spent 15 years with Kleinwort Benson （1981 - 1996）， first as a corporate finance director and then as Chief Executive of the institutional asset management business. She moved to the British Linen Bank （1997 - 1999）， latterly as Governor， and then was a founder director of British Linen Advisers （2000-2003）. She has held a variety of non-executive directorships with international and British corporates， and is involved with arts and charitable organisations.