...and here’s the woman behind UK’s masterplan
BANKING guru Katharine Braddick will play a central role in the UK’s bid to strike a Brexit deal for the City.
As director general of financial services at the Treasury since 2016, she is the top civil servant working on the ‘memorandum of understanding’ being drawn up.
Braddick, who is thought to be in her 40s, lives in Chiswick, West London, and was educated at Warwick University, where she studied history; and Cambridge, where she took a masters degree in languages.
She cut her teeth in finance at the Association of British Insurers trade body.
Braddick spent more than a decade as head of banking policy at the former City watchdog the Financial Services Authority, before moving to the Bank of England, and then the Treasury in 2014.
She will work closely with Eurosceptic MP John Glen, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister, who will spearhead the talks with City trade bodies.
Glen, who read modern history at Oxford, worked for consulting giant Accenture and in the oil and gas industry before being elected Conservative MP for Salisbury in the 2010 General Election.