Linda Crow (College, 1988-1990)

Linda Crow, a former pupil in College who left King's in 1990, visited King's on Thursday, 29^th April 2010 and became the sixth, and first female, member of the Barnabas Group.

After addressing pupils in College Hall, she recorded her memories of the school for the oral archive and took part in an Lower Sixth Economics Lesson. Tim Hickson (Hon OV 62-02) joined Linda for her oral archive recording. In a school report, Tim Hickson had said of Linda: " I have no doubt that whatever she does, she will succeed – she is just that sort of person".

Linda went on from King's to Christ's College Cambridge to study Natural Science with the ambition to join the Space programme but from university she went into the City in order to support her husband through his PHD. She has worked for a number of large City banks – most recently as a Managing Director for Citigroup where she was described as "the most senior female trader in the City". Linda has recently joined UBS - a global firm focusing on international wealth management and the Swiss banking business alongside its global expertise in investment banking and asset management.