Barbara Ridpath is director of St Paul's Institute, a department of

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that focuses on the relationship between finance, economics and the common good. Ridpath is married to the writer,

Michael Ridpath Michael Ridpath is an English author of thrillers involving the world of high finance. He was born in Devon in 1961 and grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at Millfield School and Merton College, Oxford, and spent eight years working as a ...

Education

Ridpath gained an AB degree at

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before going on to receive a master's degree in international affairs at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

Business career

Prior to her position at St Paul's Institute, Ridpath was chief executive of the

International Centre for Financial Regulation The International Centre for Financial Regulation (ICFR) (2009–12) was a UK-based non-partisan organisation focused entirely on financial regulation that operated between 2009 and 2012. History IFCR was the product of a collaboration between a n ...

. Previous to her work at the ICFR, she was executive managing director and head of ratings services, Europe, for

Standard & Poor's S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. S&P is co ...

, from 2004 to 2008, where she was responsible for Standard & Poor's rating activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Before that she was managing director and chief credit officer, Europel based in Standard & Poor's London office, where she was responsible for the development and application of ratings policy in Europe including its global consistency. Ridpath joined S&P in 1983 after three years as an economist at the

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. She worked in S&P's European network from 1986, holding a broad range of positions. Ridpath spearheaded S&P's move into international securitisation whilst based in London in the late 1980s, and ran S&P-ADEF in Paris from 1990 to 1993. From 1993 to 1998 Ridpath was a senior credit officer at

JPMorgan JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational finance corporation headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is the largest bank in the United States, and the world's largest bank by mar ...

Europe, rejoining S&P in 1998. She is currently also a non-executive director of the National Australia Group Europe, and a member of Council of

Chatham House The Royal Institute of International Affairs, also known as Chatham House, is a British think tank based in London, England. Its stated mission is "to help governments and societies build a sustainably secure, prosperous, and just world". It ...

, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

References

External links

ICFR website
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