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Bruce Carnegie-Brown

British insurance broker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ56065103 ↗
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Bruce Neil Carnegie-Brown (born 27 December 1959) is chairman of Rothesay Ltd, Ebury Partners Ltd, Gresham House Ltd and Cuvva Ltd. He was Chair of the insurance market Lloyd's of London, from 2017-2025 and Vice Chairman of Banco Santander (2015-2024). He was also chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club (2021-2024) and chair of the Leadership Council of TheCityUK (2022-2025). He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Greater London in 2015.

Early life and education

Bruce Carnegie-Brown was born on 27 December 1959 in Freetown, British Sierra Leone. His father was an engineer and tobacco executive, and the family relocated often, including to Libya, Jordan, Tanzania and Malaysia. He attended Cheltenham College, in 1973 and leaving in 1977. In 1977, he won a scholarship to study English Language and Literature at Exeter College, Oxford matriculating in 1978 and graduating with a First Class Honours degree in 1981.

Career

After leaving university, Carnegie-Brown spent four years at Bank of America as an investment banker, before joining JP Morgan, where he worked for 18 years, including three years in Tokyo as chairman and head of the Asia-Pacific investment banking business from 1997 to 2000. He was a member of the Global Investment Banking Management Committee from 1997 to 2000 and a member of the Global Markets Management Committee from 2001 to 2003.

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