Appointed in November 2004. Fields is co-founder and partner of Leaders’ Quest, an international organisation which works with leaders in the developing and developed worlds.

Fields is a Non-executive Director of Savills and is a Governor of King’s College, London. Previously, Fields was Chief Financial Officer of the London Stock Exchange and Chief Operating Officer and Partner of Vesta Group, an international venture capital firm investing in early stage technology businesses in Europe.

She has advised the European Union on financial sector reform, and was a member of the NASDAQ Technology Council for many years. She served on the DTI’s Board of Directors for 6 years and chaired the Investment Committee advising on all government subsidies to business. Fields was awarded an OBE in 2007 for services to international business.