Dame Alison Rose DBE
Non-Executive Director
Alison joined the FNZ Group Board in November 2025.
She has over 30 years’ experience in financial services and served as Chief Executive of NatWest Group until 2023. Prior to this, she was Deputy Chief Executive Officer of NatWest Group and Chief Executive Officer of the commercial and private banking business. She held a number of senior roles across the group, including Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for the Global Investment Bank, Global Head of Portfolio Management, and Head of Leveraged Finance for the UK and Europe.
Alison has previously served on the Prime Minister’s Business Council, the Government’s Energy Efficiency Taskforce and the Net Zero Council, and is a founding member of GFANZ as well as a member of the SMI Council for Climate. She was invited by the UK Government to lead a review of the barriers to women starting businesses and launched the Rose Review in March 2019, which she then updated annually to report on progress in female entrepreneurship.
She was appointed Dame Commander (DBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to the financial services sector. Alison was formerly Chair of BITC’s Scotland Leadership Board and was appointed Vice Chair of BITC in December 2022. In October 2025, she was appointed Chair of Mishcon de Reya.