Fran Boait

Fran joined Positive Money in 2012 and she has led the UK team and the international expansion of the organization in Europe and the US. Committed to wider financial reform, she is also a Director of Finance Watch, a Senior Fellow at the Finance Innovation Lab, and an Advisor to Transparency Taskforce. Fran was also recognised as one of the most ‘Inspirational Women in the City’ 2017 by Brummell Magazine.

She became the Executive Director in 2013. Under Fran’s leadership Positive Money has grown from a small pressure group to an international NGO and think tank. Committed to the wider new economy movement, she has served as a Director of the Board of Finance Watch, a Board member for CommonWealth, on the Advisory Panel of the Economic Change Unit, she is a Senior Fellow at the Finance Innovation Lab, and an Advisor to Transparency Taskforce. Fran has an MSci and PhD from Cambridge University in Geophysics. Fran has also worked at various international organisations including the UN, Greenpeace, and BP.