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

St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in London and is the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London and is a Grad ...

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

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.

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 ...

. 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 con ...

, from 2004-2008, 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, Europe 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 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.

References

External links

ICFR website
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