After reading Modern History at Oxford, Marie worked for 12 years as a Management Consultant, principally advising government on major change programmes. Seeking a bit less travel, she joined the financial services regulator in 1999 and led its work on financial capability, financial inclusion and on the fair treatment of customers.
In 2012, she made a career change and started to work in schools, first as a volunteer at a MLD Primary school in Ware, then as a Learning Support Assistant in Harlow. She worked at Howe Green House as a Teaching Assistant from 2013-16 and loved every minute of it, leaving to undertake a Primary PGCE at the University of Cambridge.
Marie returned to regulation in 2019 and is, once again, leading the regulator’s work on financial inclusion. She’s previously been a governor at Little Hallingbury School and is a former Joint Chair of Governors at Hockerill Anglo-European College.
Marie has twins. Her son attended Howe Green House and Hockerill, and is now at the University of Exeter; and her daughter attended Little Hallingbury School and Stephen Perse, Cambridge and is now at the University of St Andrews. The whole family has developed strong roots in the local community of Broad Oak and the Hallingburys.