Sir Peter Kenneth Estlin (born July 1961) was the 691st

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and is a British businessman.

Biography

Born in 1961 in Portsmouth, he attended Sarisbury Green Primary School and later King Edward's School, Witley, a foundation school set up by the City of London in 1553. He read Economics and Accounting at the

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and joined Deloitte Haskins & Sells to train as a Chartered Accountant, becoming a partner with Coopers & Lybrand in 1993. He was

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for Salomon Brothers Asia, and then for Citi's Investment and Corporate Banking divisions in New York and London. He joined

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bank in 2008 and was appointed Acting Group

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in August 2013. Estlin has publicly advocated for the

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. He is an alderman of the

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where he represents the ward of Coleman Street. Having served as a

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of the

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for 2016–17, he was elected as the Lord Mayor of London on 1 October 2018 and took office at the Silent Ceremony on 9 November 2018. His mayoral theme was Shaping Tomorrow's City Today, promoting the sheer scale of innovation taking place in the UK, alongside championing digital skills, particularly to create a more inclusive society. Sir Peter is currently Chairman of Vanquis Banking Group as well as an independent non-executive director of Rothschild & Co. He is also involved with several not-for-profit organisations associated with skills and apprentices. Sir Peter was appointed Knight of the Order of Saint John and an honorary bencher of

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in 2018. As Chancellor of City University of London, he was awarded and honorary doctorate of science in 2019. In 2020, he was

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in the

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for services to international business, inclusion and skills. and later that year awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by his alma mater, the University of Bristol.

Honours

2020:

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* 2018: Knight of the Most Venerable Order of St John

Arms

*Crest: An oak tree in base and a sword between two roses in chief *Helm: That of a

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*Motto: ''Mentes inflamma''
( ''Eng'': ''To set minds alight'') *Orders: Behind the

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, the badge of St John and suspended below, by a

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, the

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of a

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References

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