CISI awards six honorary fellowships

The fellows are Farmida Bi, Stella Cox, Karina Robinson, Alastair King, Professor Sir John Kay and Professor Russell Napier. 

CISI chair, Michael Cole-Fontayn said all fellows showed a “commitment to professionalism, life-long learning and the CISI community.” 

Bi is chair of global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and advises on transactions in conventional/Islamic finance for sovereigns and corporates. 

She is also chair of the International Regulatory Strategy Group Council, Barbican Centre Trust and Patchwork Foundation. 

Cox has worked within the Islamic financial marketplace for more than 30 years and was a member of the Islamic Finance Task Force convened by the UK government which led to the UK sovereign Sukuk issuance in 2014. 

She is managing director of DDCAP Group which provides intermediary services and technology solutions to Islamic financial market institutions. 

Robinson is the chief executive of Redcliffe Advisory, which advises chairs and chief executives.

She is also the co-founder of the Inclusion Initiative, a London School of Economics institution which is tasked with creating diverse and inclusive cultures in firms. 

King, subject to election, is set to become the next Lord Mayor of London in November 2024. 

He is on the board of five London-based financial services companies, four of which he chairs. 

Kay is an economist who used to write a regular column for the Financial Times and is interested in the relationship between economics and business.

He has written a number of books including ‘The British Tax System’ with co-author and former BoE governor Mervyn King.

Napier has been an adviser to investment institutions on asset allocation for almost thirty years. 

He launched the Practical History of Financial Markets course at the Edinburgh Business School and has also opened a financial history library called ‘The Library of Mistakes’ in Edinburgh.

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