STEP names Emma Lovell as CEO

Lovell is an experienced CEO across financial services

Sahar Nazir
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STEP, the professional body for trust and estate practitioners, has appointed Emma Lovell as its CEO.

Lovell is an experienced CEO who has worked across professional services, financial services, regulatory and membership bodies. From April 2020 to the end of 2025, she was CEO of the Lending Standards Board, the UK's primary voluntary regulatory body for the financial services sector, and prior to that was CEO of R3 (Association of Business Recovery Professionals), the UK's membership association for insolvency, restructuring and turnaround professionals. Lovell was a commissioner for the Institute of Directors, helping to develop the UK's first voluntary Code of Conduct for company d...

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