Mr Louis Taylor
CEO
British Business Bank
Louis Taylor CBE is Chief Executive Officer of the British Business Bank, the UK’s government-owned economic development bank. He has extensive international and domestic experience across the public and private sectors. Before joining the Bank, Louis served for seven years as Chief Executive of UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK’s export credit agency, and sat on the Executive Committee and Management Board of the Department for International Trade.
Earlier in his career, Louis held senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank, including Chief Operating Officer of Group Treasury in London and CEO for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and previously worked in investment banking at JP Morgan as well as corporate development roles at Cookson Group and BTR plc.
Louis is a Trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee of the charity Sightsavers. He is also a former Chair of Trustees of the Irene Taylor Trust (Music in Prisons) and former Chair of Governors of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne. He holds an MA in Law from the University of Cambridge. In January 2025 he was awarded a CBE for services to business and trade.
AGF Finance Summit: Strategic resilience: capital, capability and the UK–Europe Aerospace & Defence Agenda
Hall 4 – AGN Theatre; As geopolitical tensions rise and technology accelerates, the UK and Europe face a new challenge: financing, building and sustaining the industrial capabilities that underpin security and competitiveness. As the sector shifts from
