Inga Beale
4 Extra Debut. From Aretha Franklin to The Waterboys. Lloyd's of London CEO Inga Beale shares her music choices with Kirsty Young. From 2016.
Kirsty Young鈥檚 castaway is the business woman, Inga Beale.
She has been the CEO of Lloyd鈥檚 of London since January 2014 and was the first woman to hold the post in the 325 years since the insurer was founded in 1688.
She is the middle child of a Norwegian mother and an English father and grew up in Newbury, Berkshire. Her career in insurance began in London in the early 1980s, but she tired of the predominantly male culture of the industry and left the City in 1989 to go travelling for a year. On her return she worked for the Prudential and then for GE Solutions, the insurance arm of General Electrics, where the work took her abroad.
She left GE in 2006 to turn around a failing Swiss company, before joining the Zurich Insurance Group. Her last role before joining Lloyd鈥檚 as CEO in 2014 was as chief executive of Canopius, a privately held Lloyd鈥檚 insurer.
In 2015, she topped a power list of the world鈥檚 leading 100 LGBT executives. She is openly bisexual after coming out in 2008 and has been married to her husband since 2013.
DISC ONE: Respect - Aretha Franklin
DISC TWO: Ain鈥檛 Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
DISC THREE: Edvard Grieg鈥檚 Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46 - Performer: Ulster Orchestra, conductor: Vernon Handley
DISC FOUR: Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley & The Wailers
DISC FIVE: A Man is in Love - The Waterboys
DISC SIX: Don鈥檛 Stop Me Now - Members of the cast of We Will Rock You
DISC SEVEN: Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba
DISC EIGHT: Sweet About Me - Gabriella Cilmi
BOOK CHOICE: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
LUXURY CHOICE: Daily supply of warm, sweet, milky tea
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in May 2016.
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