Carol Galley is a businesswoman who, as a director of

Mercury Asset Management Mercury Asset Management plc was a leading British investment management business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History The Company was established in 1969 when S. G. Warburg & Co., the ...

, was regarded as the most powerful woman in the

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in the 1990s. She was educated at Gosforth Grammar School in

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and at the

University of Leicester The University of Leicester ( ) is a public university, public research university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park, Leicester, Victoria Park. The university's predecessor, Univ ...

. She no longer actively makes fund management decisions. She featured on the 2006

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with a personal wealth of £80 million.2006 Sunday Times Rich List

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Alumni of the University of Leicester Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Businesspeople from Newcastle upon Tyne People educated at Gosforth Academy {{UK-business-bio-stub