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Shirine Khoury-Haq is the chief executive officer of the Co-op Group 鈥� the first female chief executive in its 180-year history and the first from an ethnic minority background.

Shirine was born in Beirut to a Palestinian father and a Turkish mother. Her father was a geophysicist who worked in the oil industry and his work took the family around the world. By the time Shirine was 12 she had lived on every continent except Antarctica, regularly having to adapt to very different schools and classmates.

She studied for a Bachelor of Commerce in accounting and economics at the Australian National University in Canberra, while taking on a number of jobs to pay her way. In 1996 she joined the McDonald鈥檚 Corporation as a finance and operations manager and then joined IBM as an associate partner.

In 2014 she was appointed chief operating officer for Lloyd鈥檚 of London and five years later she joined the Co-op as chief financial officer. She became the Group鈥檚 CEO in August 2022.

Shirine lives in Cheshire with her husband and two daughters.

DISC ONE: Jamaica Farewell - Harry Belafonte
DISC TWO: Ya Talien Eljabal - Rola Azar
DISC THREE: Better Together - Jack Johnson
DISC FOUR: Fight the Power - Public Enemy
DISC FIVE: Nuthin鈥� But A 鈥淕鈥� Thang - Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg
DISC SIX: Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
DISC SEVEN: How Great Thou Art - Susan Boyle
DISC EIGHT: Stuck in a Moment You Can鈥檛 Get Out Of - U2

BOOK CHOICE: The Quran
LUXURY ITEM: A photo frame
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: How Great Thou Art - Susan Boyle

Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley