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