Claire Davies

Group Secretary, The Co-operative Group

Claire Davies has nearly 30 years’ experience in legal, compliance and company secretarial roles, principally in the banking and insurance sectors. She is a qualified solicitor and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, with a broad background gained in private practice, in house and professional services. She is currently Company Secretary at the Co operative Group having joined in March 2014 to lead their Governance Reform Project. Prior to that, she spent 5 years at Lloyds Banking Group at the height of the banking crisis, as Deputy then Company Secretary. She spent a number of years Legal & General Group ending up as Company Secretary having held a variety of senior legal and compliance roles, including Compliance Policy Director.  She also spent 4 years in Ernst & Young’s Financial Services Risk & Regulatory Practice, where, as a Director, she was responsible for delivering a number of large regulatory reform projects.