Lesley Knox
Trustee
Lesley Knox is a Trustee of the Grosvenor Estates and Non-Executive Chairman of Grosvenor Group. Lesley has held a variety of non-executive directorships with international and British corporates, and is currently a director of SABMiller plc and Centrica plc. In 1987 she was a finalist for Business Woman of the Year and has been involved with arts and charitable organisations, she is currently Chairman of the V&A at Dundee. Lesley studied law at Cambridge; qualified as a solicitor in England with Slaughter and May, and in the US with Shearman & Stirling; 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).