Recovering from dinner at No.11 Downing Street and a night out at the well-known Ronnie Scott's jazz club, Standard Life's John Lawson turns up for an early morning interview looking remarkably bright-eyed and bushy-tailed despite admitting to ‘feeling a bit fogged'.
Given his activity the previous evening, my first question is how do you to top dinner with the chancellor? But no, “He wasn’t there,” says Lawson, “we were just using his house, although it was a bit weird seeing all the toys out in the back garden from where the Prime Minister and his family live there.” Financial services is not the career John Lawson had first considered, so how exactly does a computer science graduate from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh end up as the head of pensions policy at a company like Standard life? “Well I just sort of fell into it,” says Lawson. “I was...
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