Olivia Dickson is a Founder Partner at Collington Capital with a background in financial services and social impact. She was a Managing Director at JP Morgan and served as a NED on various boards. Olivia is a Board member of the Impact Investing Institute. She holds a degree in Mathematics from Oxford and an MSc from London Business School. Olivia’s motivation is to continue the legacy of impact-led work initiated by her great-grandmother over 100 years ago.
Olivia is a Founder Partner of Collington Capital and a Board Member and Chair of the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee of the Impact Investing Institute and, until recently, a Trustee Director and Chair of the Governance and Nominations Committee of ShareAction. Previously Olivia led the Impact Investing Institute’s work on impact management, measurement and reporting, and was a member of the G7 2021 Impact Taskforce and the 2017 Steering Group and then Taskforce on ‘Creating a Culture of Social Impact Investing in the UK’.
In her early career, Olivia was a Managing Director of JP Morgan leading its European derivatives brokerage business and a Senior Adviser to the Financial Services Authority. Later Olivia served as a non-executive Director and member or Chair of many Board Committees, including for Virgin Money, Investec, Aon, Canada Life, Royal London and the Financial Reporting Council. Olivia also served as a member of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Services Authority and the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator. Olivia read mathematics at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and was later awarded an MSc from the London Business School.
The Harriet Collington Foundation, at the heart of Collington Capital, has been established to further the legacy of Olivia’s great grandmother Harriet Collington, her sister Catherine Arnott, and successive generations of Collington women who were pioneers in their respective fields
This line of Collington women continues with Olivia, who brings her deep knowledge of financial services, her skills and experience and her networks, to address the specific problem of enabling impact-led enterprises to access impact capital and deliver a more socially equitable world.
In this way, Olivia continues the work begun by Harriet over 100 years ago and ensures that each generation of Collington women has found a way, in a manner appropriate to their time, to use their skills and experience for the benefit of wider society.
