How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crises, and how does your legal strategy align with the broader business strategy to ensure the organisation’s resilience? 

Our legal strategy is integrated into our overall risk management, governance and control framework, allowing early identification of potential risks. We ensure that legal decisions support both immediate business priorities and responses and long-term growth objectives and we focus on open communication with stakeholders, regulators and clients.

We also adapt our legal approach to shifting regulatory landscapes, market volatility and geopolitical risks. Through anticipation and scenario planning, we prepare for potential legal challenges, ensuring the organisation can navigate potential crisis effectively and be focused on sustainable growth.

Do you have a cause, business-related or otherwise, that you are passionate about? 

Fostering long-term thinking within our organisations is key to building more resilient and successful organisations. While delivering current objectives and financial trajectories is important, true value is created when we align our actions with a broader purpose that benefits not just our organisations but also the people within them, our stakeholders and the societies in which we operate.

By focusing on the sustainability in the future of what we do on a day-to-day basis, we build a vision, and we define who we want to be as organisations, the impact we aspire to have and how we can contribute positively, and we ensure that our actions today lead to a future where our organisations thrive while having a meaningful and positive impact.