A banking executive working to boost diversity in the Square Mile has been granted the Freedom of the City of London as part of an initiative to mark the centenary of women in the UK winning the right to vote.

Over the course of 2018, the City of London has awarded 100 women with the Freedom of the City, a centuries-old honour originally linked to London’s livery companies. This year’s initiative comes 100 years on from the suffragette movement that secured women’s rights to vote.