Scotland’s Global Investment Summit Dinner

Monday 6 October 2025
8:00pm - 10:00pm

Agenda & Attendee List

Agenda

Dinner at the Signet Library

Time: 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Attendance: 150–170 guests

Agenda:

  • Guests seated at 8:00 PM

  • Welcome address by the Lord Mayor

  • Keynote speech from Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England

  • Two-course dinner showcasing the best of Scottish cuisine

  • Closing remarks by Sandy Begbie, CEO of Scottish Financial Enterprise

  • Networking opportunities available throughout the evening

Attendee List

Abdulaziz Alghifaili - International Office Director UK & Ireland, MISA

Abdulla Almheiri – Principal Sovereign Partnerships, Mubadala Investment Company

Adam Morrison – UK Country Manager, Ocean Winds

Adrian Gillespie – Chief Executive, Scottish Enterprise

Adrian Pilz – Head, European Equities, Kuwait Investment Office

Aine Mishra – Head of Strategic Development, TauRx

Al Denholm – Chief Executive, Scottish National Investment Bank

Alan Shanks – Partner, Addleshaw Goddard

Alanoud Al Thani – Counselor for Economic Affairs, Embassy of the State of Qatar in London

Alasdair Campbell – Director, InfraRed Capital Partners

Alistair Ross – Head of Public Policy, Association of British Insurers

Ana Stewart – Investment Partner, Eos

Anastatia Nishnianidze – Trade & Investment Director, City of London Corporation

Andrew Bailey – Governor, Bank of England

Andrew Wilson – Executive Director - Communications, Marketing & Responsible Banking, Santander UK plc

Andy Bamford – CEO, NSSIF

Angus Macpherson – Chairman, Noble & Co

Anthony Marlowe – Head of Communications and Public Affairs, Rothesay

Ashok Gupta – UK Chair, Mercer Ltd

Austin Hay – Managing Director, ADC Energy

Benoit Hudon – CEO, Mercer Ltd

Bob Crozier – Managing Director, Senior Tech Lead M&A, HSBC Global Services (UK) Ltd

Bruce Pritchard – CEO, Liminal Bio Sciences

Callum Munro – UK Government

Campbell Martin – Market Advisor, City of London Corporation

Carl Sizer – Chief Markets Officer, PwC

Caroline Stevenson – Partner, Burness Paull LLP

Carolyn Jameson – Senior Independent Director, Scottish National Investment Bank

Cecile Retaureau – Head of Private Markets, Phoenix Group

Chira Barua – Chief Executive, Scottish Widows and Group Director, Insurance, Pensions & Investments, Lloyds Banking Group

Chris Barton – Local & International Growth Director, DBT

Chris Shields – Executive Director, Capco

Christopher Beatty – Director, Morgan Stanley

Claire Mack – CEO, Scottish Renewables

Colin Hudson – Managing Director, National Wealth Fund

Dame Susan Rice – Chair, Forth Green Freeport

Dan Cooper – Partner, EY

Dan Cooper – UK Head of Banking, EY

Daniel Cannizzaro – Founding Partner, Global Growth Partners

Daniel Grosvenor – UK Energy, Resources and Industrials Leader, Deloitte

David Cheskin – Photographer, Chris Watt Photography

David Lindsay – Chief Investment Officer, Stafford Capital Partners Limited

David Martin – UK Government Relations, Barclays

David Scalley – Managing Director, AJT Engineering Limited

David Semaya – Executive Chairman & Representative Director, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd.

Debbie Crosbie – Group CEO, Nationwide Building Society

Douglas Hansen-Luke – Executive Chairman, Future Planet Capital

Dr Deborah O’Neil OBE – Chief Executive Officer, NovaBiotics Ltd

Dr Glenn Corr – COO & CBO, TauRx Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Dr John Tang – Growth Partner, Intrepid Growth Partners

Dr. Naji Alshammasi – GM of Assets and Liabilities Management, GOSI

Dr. Samran Alrashidi – First Secretary, Saudi Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in London

Eddie McAvinchey – Director - Scotland, National Wealth Fund

Emma Griffin – Chair, UK Financial Institutions Group, Rothschild

Ewan Hunter – CEO, The Hunter Foundation

Fraser McPhail – Senior Director, Debt Finance, OakNorth Bank

Fraser Wilson – Partner - Head of FS Regions, PwC

Geoff Aberdein – Managing Partner, True North

Gillian Murray – Executive Director, Scotland Team Lead, J.P. Morgan Private Bank

Grant Macrae – Master, Royal Company of Merchants

Gregg McClymont – Executive Director - Public Affairs, IFM

Gregor Irwin – Director-General Economy, Scottish Government

Hamish Patrick – Partner, Shepherd and Wedderburn

Hannah Gurga – Director General, ABI

Haoyu Wang – UK CEO, Ming Yang UK Renewable Energy Company Limited

His Excellency Ibrahim Al-Mubarak – Assistant Minister of Investment, MISA

Ian McCubbin – Chairman, Roslin CT

Indranil Nath – Chair IoD Japan Business Group, Institute of Directors

Jack Knight – Deputy CEO, The Investment Association

Jackie Leiper – Chair Scottish Executive Committee LBG, Lloyds Banking Group

Jane Martin – Managing Director of Innovation and Investment, Scottish Enterprise

Jason Stockwood – Minister of State for Investment of the United Kingdom, HM Treasury

Jason Windsor – Chief Executive, Aberdeen Group

Jeremy Grant - Business Columnist, The Scotsman

Jessica Hill – Director, Future Planet Capital

John Godfrey – Managing Director, Public Affairs, Policy and Research, TheCityUK

John Maciver – Partner, Pinsent Masons LLP

Jonathan Lipkin – Director, Policy, Strategy & Innovation, The Investment Association

Jonathan Peake – Chief Investment Officer, Hampden Bank

Judith Cruickshank – MD, Commercial Mid Market, Royal Bank of Scotland

Juergen Maier – Chair of GBE, Great British Energy

Kalle Juhani – Owner, KES Group Oy

Kalle Salminen – Executive Chairman, KES Group Oy

Kate Forbes – Deputy First Minister, Scottish Government

Katharine Braddick – Group Head of Strategic Policy and Advisor to the Group CEO, Barclays

Katherine Rowlingson – Assistant Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor of London, City of London Corporation

Kathryn Porter – US Consul General for Scotland

Katie Clinton – Partner, KPMG LLP

Kay Abdilahi – Assistant Director of Media (Financial Services), City of London Corporation

Keith Anderson – CEO, Scottish Power

Kerstin Mathias – Director, International Affairs, UK Finance

Kevin Johnson – Partner, Deloitte

Lida Sun – Business Director, Private Credit, Alberta Investment Management Corporation

Lin Wu – General Secretary of CCCUK, China Chamber of Commerce in the UK (CCCUK)

Lisa Dimon – Assistant Director - Global Trade Promotion, City of London Corporation

Lolita Jackson MBE – Executive Director of Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Development Capital LLP

Lorna Kelly – Strategic Development Director, Maven Capital

Louisa Knox – Solicitor and Partner, Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Lucy Rigby – Economic Secretary to the Treasury, HM Treasury

Maggie McGinlay – Chief Executive, Energy Transition Zone Ltd

Marc Murray – Vice President, Investcorp

Mark Cook – Chair, Life Sciences Scotland

Mark Thornton – UK Government

Martin Mclaren – Partner, Maven Capital

Martin Pibworth – CEO, SSE

Martin Roughead – CEO, Haventus

Mary Gunn – NED, Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust

Masatoshi Tsubo – Chief Representative, Sumitomo Life Insurance

Matthew Hurn OBE – Chief Financial Officer, Mubadala Investment

Melissa Lockett – Investment Director, Investment & Place Partnerships, Legal & General

Michael Li – MISA

Michael Moore – Chief Executive, British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association

Mikael Down – Head of EMEA Sustainable Finance, Morgan Stanley

Mike Tumilty – Global Chief Operating Officer, Aegon Asset Management

Mikheil Nibladze – Managing Director, Cerberus Frontiers

Mishal Alrammah – Associated Companies Director, GOSI

Mohammed Sufayran – MISA

Murray Whittaker – Director Of Projects, Whittaker

Nick McGruer – Head (Devolved Nations Offices), FCA

Nicola Anderson – Chief Executive, Fintech Scotland

Nikhil Rathi – Chief Executive, FCA

Niranjan Sirdeshpande – Global Head of Investment - Catalyst Fund, M&G Investments

Pasi Vana Vanttinen – Group CSO & CFO, Valo Hotel & Work Group

Paul Little – Principal & Chief Executive, City of Glasgow College

Paul Thwaite – Chief Executive, NatWest Group

Paul Valente – NatWest Venture Capital

Peter Branner – Chief Investment Officer, Aberdeen

Peter Coleman – CEO, Roslin CT

Peter Cunningham – Managing Director, UK Head of Services, Citi

Peter Lawson – Chair, Burness Paull

Philip Milne – Partner - Strategy & Transactions, EY

Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak – Regius Chair of Medicine/Chief Scientist (Health), University of Glasgow/Scottish Government

Professor Sir Peter Mathieson – Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh

Rahul Ahluwalia – Director, Office for Investment: Financial Services

Rhys Phillips – Principal Private Secretary to the Governor, Bank of England

Richard Lochhead – Minister for Business and Employment, Scottish Government

Roland Inglis – Partner / Head of Scotland/North England, Capco

Roman Regelman – Group President, FNZ

Ross Anderson – Associate Director - UK & Europe, Bahrain Economic Development Board

Ross Liston – CEO, M&G

Roy Leckie – Executive Director, Walter Scott & Partners Limited

Sandy Boss – Chair, BlackRock UK, BlackRock

Sara Palmer – Head of Investment, Innovate UK Business Connect

Sarah Alhudaithi – Senior Investment Lead, General Organization for Social Insurance - KSA

Sarah Moore – CEO, Peterson Energy Logistics

Scott Irvine – Managing Director, Rabobank

Scott Walker – Co-Head BlackRock Edinburgh, BlackRock

Sherry Coutu CBE – Serial Entrepreneur, NED, Interactive Investor, Phoenix, Pearson, Raspberry Pi

Stephen Dainton – President of Barclays Bank PLC, Barclays

Stephen Flaherty – CTO, Barclays

Stuart Black – Chief Executive, Highland and Islands Enterprise

Sue Dawe – Head of FS Scotland, EY

Takahiro Nakayama – Chief Investment Officer, Nomura Asset Management

The RH. Darren Jones – Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, Cabinet Office

The Rt Hon. The Lord Mayor Alastair King – Lord Mayor, COLC

Tim Reid – Chief Executive, UK Export Finance

Tim Stedman – CEO, Storegga

Veronica Humble – Chief Investment Officer, NatWest Cushon

Vidur Bahree – Group Investment Director, Royal London

Wayne Johnson – CEO, Encompass Corporation

Wenjian Fang – CEO, Bank of China UK

Will Dowson – Agent for Scotland, Bank of England