Keith Jones

Keith Jones was appointed as a senior independent director at Smith & Williamson in January 2017. Keith has extensive experience in the financial services sector. He was chief executive of Aviva Global Investors, an executive director and partner of James Capel & Co and Lazards. Keith has previously been a Board Director of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and Chair of the ABI Investment Committee. He was also a board director of NPI and chief executive officer of NPI Asset Management and, more recently, an adviser to Lloyds Bank plc.

Keith is an experienced non-executive director, having acted as chairman for Execution Noble and as a non-executive director of F&C Asset Management PLC, Just Retirement Holdings, Chairman of Haitong Securities and a senior adviser to Permira. Presently he is Chairman of Pemberton Asset Management Holdings. He has an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and an MSc (Econ) in Econometrics and Economics from London University.