Stock Exchange's boss JULIA HOGGETT admits she is privileged By John-Paul Ford Rojas Updated: 21:50, 8 June 2024 e-mail View comments Buoyant: Julia Hoggett, standing on top of the London Stock Exchange She is diminutive, dapper and softly spoken, but Julia Hoggett, boss of the London Stock Exchange, pulls no punches in the battle between global stock exchanges to attract multi-billion pound company listings. 'You should assume we're going after everything. We fight for everything,' she says.
The London market has been losing out to rivals, particularly Wall Street, as companies have defected or chosen to list elsewhere. The next few months could prove a turning point. A blockbuster float by Chinese retailer Shein is on the cards.
There is speculation diamond firm De Beers and Boots the chemist may follow. If London can attract these firms, maybe it can start to regain former glories. Hoggett, who is leading the City's fightback, is a champion of diversity.
As the first lesbian boss at the exchange, she is nothing like the blue-blooded alpha males who have traditionally run the Square Mile. But she is also the daughter of Baroness Hale – once Britain's most senior judge – and that background shows how there is still so much more to do, she admits. She says: 'Because I'm female, I'm a mother and I'm openly gay, I often get rolled out as a sort of big proof that we've cracked it.
'I'm proof we haven't cracked it because I come from a very privileged background.' Hoggett, a .
