About Louis Taylor

Louis Taylor is CEO of the British Business Bank. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive of UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK’s export credit agency, for seven years. He also held roles as a Director General in the Department for International Trade, and a member of its Executive Committee and Management Board. Before joining UKEF, Louis Taylor held a range of senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank, including from 2013 to 2015 as Chief Operating Officer of Group Treasury, based in London. Before that, he spent three years as the bank’s CEO for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, based in Ho Chi Minh City. During this time he was also Vice Chairman of the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (Eurocham). He joined Standard Chartered in London in 2004, working in Group Corporate Development, which undertakes the bank’s acquisitions, divestments and other inorganic growth initiatives. His earlier career included eight years working for JP Morgan in debt capital markets and mergers and acquisitions, and five years in corporate development and strategy with two industrial companies, Cookson Group plc and BTR plc. Louis Taylor is a trustee of the charity Sightsavers, which prevents sight loss and avoidable blindness, and promotes equal rights for the disabled. He is also a former chair of trustees of the charity Music in Prisons, which runs music education projects to help rehabilitate offenders, and a former chair of governors of the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has an MA in Law from the University of Cambridge. Experienced CEO with a strong record in Financial and Industrial PLCs, and Government. An inspiring, strategic leader in a range of developed and developing markets, with deep Board Level experience in: Banking, Capital Markets, Credit Risk, M&A and Regulated Industries. Louis Taylor is dedicated to helping smaller businesses across the UK achieve their ambitions by accessing the right finance as CEO of the British Business Bank. This effort enables the creation of a more diverse finance market for smaller businesses and reduces barriers and imbalances in access to finance throughout the UK. The British Business Bank's equity programmes invest in high-growth, groundbreaking UK businesses, and they support UK debt markets, helping firms innovate both their products and processes. They are developing an investment vehicle to catalyse pension fund investment, aiming to unlock billions of pounds of domestic investment for high-growth businesses and capture the full potential of the UK's world-class breakthrough technology companies. In addition to his duties as CEO of the British Business Bank, Louis serves as Chair of their commercial subsidiaries, British Patient Capital and British Business Investments, as well as their investment committees. Louis Taylor is also a trustee of the charity Sightsavers, which works to prevent sight loss and avoidable blindness and promotes equal rights for those with disabilities.