Barbara Ridpath has worked in finance and economics in the USA, France and the UK. She started at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and spent most of her career in credit analysis at Standard & Poor’s, rising to head the Ratings Group for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with a short stint at J. P. Morgan. More recently she has run a think tank on financial regulation and been Director of the St Paul’s Institute at St Paul’s Cathedral. She chairs the Ethical Investment Advisory Group of the Church of England and sits on the ethical advisory committee of the Fondation Notre Dame in Paris. She is currently a non-executive director of Paragon Banking Group and ORX. Barbara has an A.B. degree cum laude in Economics from Smith College and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University.
