The Wolfson Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of C. Allegra Berman to the Board of Trustees.
Allegra is Global Co-Head of HSBC’s Securities Services and Global Head of Institutional Sales in HSBC’s Markets & Securities Services division. With some USD10 trillion of assets under custody, HSBC has one of the largest Securities Services platforms across the financial industry. Previously, Allegra was Head of the Financial Institutions Group, EMEA and Global Head of the Public Sector Group. Prior to joining HSBC in 2013, Allegra spent 12 years at UBS, where she co-led UBS’s EMEA Debt Capital Markets business, was Global Head of Public Sector Fixed Income and Vice Chair of Global Capital Markets.
Allegra was a Non-Executive Director of HSBC Asset Management UK (2016 – 2018) and a Board Member of the International Capital Market Association (2011 – 2013). Allegra has won numerous industry awards including “Most influential woman in European Investment Banking” in 2011 and has been recognised in the annual “Top 100 women in European Finance” awards every year since 2008.
Allegra serves on the Board of Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Previously, she was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery (2011 – 2019) where she was Chair of both the Gallery’s Investment Committee and its Finance Committee. Allegra has an MA in Modern Languages from Magdalen College, Oxford, where she is also a Trustee of its Development Board.
The Board of Trustees of the Wolfson Foundation consists of up to 12 trustees, with academic or professional members and family members in an 8:4 ratio. Trustees are advised by expert grant panels and nomination, risk and investment committees, and also rely on a wider network of advisors and reviewers.
