Big Interview: Dame Sue Langley
Proudly boosting a background in insurance, the first Lady Mayor of the City of London Dame Sue Langley talks to Jonathan Swift about combatting mis-information, improving business confidence and using her ‘soft power’ to encourage more young people and overseas investment into EC3.
Just like buses, you wait for one Lord Mayor of the City of London from an insurance background to come along … and then you get two in relatively quick succession.
Last year Dame Susan Langley became
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