Larissa Joy OBE

Chair , Social Business Trust

Larissa Joy OBE Larissa is a Chair of Social Business Trust; Non-Executive Director of international law firm Charles Russell Speechlys; Non-executive Director of Saxton Bampfylde, Chair of the Employee Ownership Trust of architecture practice Hawkins Brown; Chairman of The Foundling Museum and Non-executive Director of Helpforce CIC. Her previous roles include Vice Chairman of WPP's Ogilvy Group UK; European COO Weber Shandwick; Partner of emerging markets private equity firm, Actis LLP; Founding Trustee of V Inspired, NED of London & Quadrant and Chairman of the House of Illustration. She read law at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, completed her solicitor's finals at the College of Law, London and studied at London Business School, where she completed her MBA. She has three children. She has played clarinet in the Lawyers Music Symphony Orchestra for over 20 years.