Louise Botting

Elizabeth Louise Botting CBE is a British company director and former broadcaster. She was presenter of BBC Radio 4s Money Box programme between 1977 and 1992. After her broadcasting career, she became one of the first female directors of a FTSE100 company, through her appointment to the board of CGNU . She has also held nonexecutive directorships of other companies such as Trinity Mirror, London Weekend Television and Camelot Group. In 1974, she founded the private wealth management firm Douglas Deakin Young, serving as its managing director and then chairman until the firm was sold to Duncan Lawrie in 2005. Over the years, she has had an extensive portfolio of business interests.

Botting was born into a middleclass family, attending the local grammar school, Sutton Coldfield High School for Girls and went on to the London School of Economics.

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