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Full Title:
Category: Honorary Bencher
Bench Call Date: 14.2.2023
Bio:

Alderman Nicholas Lyons was elected as the next Lord Mayor of the City of London on 29 September 2022. He took office as the 694th Lord Mayor on 11 November 2022. He previously served as Sheriff of the City of London in 2021-22.

Nicholas was born in Ireland and was educated in Canterbury, attending the King’s School and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read history.

 

After time as a political research assistant in London and with the Directorate General for External Relations at the EEC Commission in Brussels, he joined Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York in London in 1982 where he worked for 12 years, then at Salomon Brothers from 1994-95 and then moved with a team to Lehman Brothers where he worked from 1995-03. He held a series of global leadership roles at Lehman Brothers, retiring in 2003 to begin a plural career, sitting on the boards of many financial institutions and numerous charities. His City career has spanned over 40 years.