Mark Harding joined Barclays as group general counsel in May last year, stepping into the shoes of Howard Trust, who left the group to take up the top legal job at Schroders.

While he joined the bank from Clifford Chance (CC), it is not his first foray into the world of corporate counsel. Prior to joining CC in 2000, Harding had a four-year stint as general counsel at investment bank UBS Warburg.