Career
Corley started her career immediately after leaving school around 1975. She joined Sun Alliance Life & Pensions where she spent ten years, eventually being appointed to deputy head of broker sales. In 1985, she joined Coopers & Lybrand Management Consultants, where she was a consultant and then partner.
In 1993, she joined Mercury Asset Management, which later became Merrill Lynch Investment Management, serving as managing director and head of distribution for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
She became Global Chief Executive Officer of Allianz Global Investors in 2011. In 2014, she was appointed to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s stakeholder group.
On 1 May 2014 she was appointed as an independent non-executive director of Pearson plc, the British multinational education and publishing company. In June 2014, Elizabeth was asked to chair a panel of market practitioners to contribute to the Fair and Effective Markets Review, a joint review initiated by the Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority into the way wholesale FICC markets operate.
Since April 2011, Corley has been a non-executive director on the Financial Reporting Council.
Additionally, Elizabeth is an Advisory Council member for the AQR Institute of Asset Management at London Business School. Corley has a post graduate diploma in management studies, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute. She lives in London and travels regularly between Allianz’ offices in Europe, the United States and Asia.
Corley is also known as a crime fiction writer
Her series of Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Fenwick spans currently across five books 1. Requiem Mass (1998) 2.
Fatal Legacy (2000) 3. Grave Doubts (2006) 4.
Innocent Blood (2008) 5.
Dead of Winter (2013).