Peter Harrison

In 2017 Harrison was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bath. He is a member of the CFA advisory council and sits on the CityUK advisory board. He is also a member of the Diversity Project and part of the Embankment Project for Inclusive Capitalism. He is involved in improving diversity and inclusion, and was ranked ninth in the 2018 Financial Times 50 Male Champions of Women in Business - part of the FT's annual HERoes. He is also an OUTstanding Top 50 Ally Executive. Harrison was included in Debrett's 500 most influential people, and was shortlisted for Advocate of the Year at the Women in Finance awards.

Harrison began his career at Schroders as a graduate in 1988, before moving to Newton Investment Management in 1991. Prior to returning to Schroders in 2013 as global head of equities, Harrison worked in a number of senior roles at JPMorgan, Deutsche Asset Management and latterly chairman and CEO of RWC Partners. He became head of investment at Schroders in 2014 and then CEO in 2016, when he succeeded Michael Dobson, who had been CEO for 15 years and became the chairman. Dobson's move from CEO to chairman was widely criticised, for example in The Independent, "City in uproar as Schroders tycoons flout the rules on good governance".

Peter Harrison (born May 1966) is a British businessman, and the chief executive (CEO) of Schroders, a British multinational investment management company.

Peter Harrison was born in May 1966. He studied at the University of Bath, graduating in 1988 with a degree in business administration.