Reputed digital business magazine, The Silicon Leaders is pleased to feature Chris Hayward, the Policy Chairman at The City of London Corporation.

He has a singular experience and dedicated passion for the cause of ensuring that the industry is kept on the growth path. With a sense of commitment to growth development and ensuring that the UK financial services are sound, Chris is now shaping the future of this crucial sector. His style of leadership is marked by a deep understanding of the challenges rather than the opportunities in the industry. Chris’s focus on collaborative partnership and strategic partnership is ushering in titanic developments in inclusive finance, digital technology, and high-growth sector investment because it bears witness to his understanding of the industry needs and ability to trigger great change. The City of London Corporation under Chris is a major driver of financial and professional services. The Corporation is committed to the support of UK growth, business development, and economic activity for the benefit of the greater economy. Jointly and through various schemes, the City of London Corporation is working to promote the UK as a global leading financial centre, fostering innovation and sustainable business performance across the sector.

In his role as the UK’s ambassador for professional and financial services, the Lord Mayor and Chris regularly meet with business leaders, policymakers, and financial officials from all over the world to promote Britain as a place to do business. They discuss how to enhance connections between the rest of the world and the UK, and how to better shape the future of policy for financial services.

Within the City of London Corporation, the aspiration is to be a world-class organisation, something that Chris carries with him wherever he works and in whatever venture. He globe-hopped for over 30 years before joining the City of London Corporation, establishing his property management business, creating a B2B facilitation business, and helping to develop London’s second busiest airport, Gatwick, which now deals with over 30 million passengers each year.

Chris has felt the thrill of being in charge of small and large organizations, and that is why he has set out to empower businesses of every sort, from giant multinationals to Square Mile SMEs.

Chris believes heritage and culture are of monumental significance to the Corporation of the City of London. Since he was a boy, Chris has been drawn to politics, and over the past thirty years has consistently sought leadership roles that can be of good to society, whether in politics, education, or charity work.

He ran for Policy Chairman because he was interested in doing something for the businesses and people of the Square Mile. He was voted into office during the pandemic and discovered that there was business to be done in assisting the city in recovering.