Sarah Pritchard
Deputy Chief Executive, FCA

Sarah Pritchard
Deputy Chief Executive, FCA

Sarah co-leads the FCA's combined Supervision, Policy and Competition (SPC) division and is responsible for its international function, leading the organisation’s international priorities in support of the FCA strategy. Additionally, Sarah provides executive sponsorship for the FCA's Edinburgh office.

Prior to joining the FCA, Sarah was the Director of the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), a multi-agency partnership housed in the National Crime Agency, created in late 2018 to deliver UK system leadership on economic crime. Before then, she was General Counsel/Legal Director for the National Crime Agency as well as leading the NCA's transformational people programme.

Her career has involved stints in investigative, operational and legal roles in a range of government departments and in the private sector. Within the private sector, she has led global financial crime compliance and reputational risk teams at HSBC and qualified as a commercial litigator with Dechert LLP.

Sarah is currently covering the Consumers and Competition, Executive Director’s role alongside David Geale, Managing Director, PSR. Specifically, Sarah is covering consumer finance, insurance, cross-cutting policy and strategy, and competition directorates (plus sustainable finance Executive Director oversight), while David is covering retail banking, and payments and digital assets directorates.