Alastair John Naisbitt King

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Florence Walker
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(m. 2024)​
Alderman
Alastair King
MStJ DL
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Alastair King in 2023
Sheriff of London
In office
28 September 2022 –28 September 2023
Parents
  • Jack Naisbitt King MBE (father)
  • Ruth née Lewis (mother)
Relatives Alexander Armstrong,
Giles Coren (brothers-in-law)
Residence(s) London EC4;
Strathdon, Aberdeenshire
Education Oundle School
Alma mater
Profession
Awards Order of St John (UK) ribbon -vector.svg MStJ
Website www.naisbittking.com
Lord Mayor Nicholas Lyons and Sheriff Alastair King with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at Edinburgh in 2023 First Minister and London blokes- FiSGAD meeting - 52646721860.jpg
Lord Mayor Nicholas Lyons and Sheriff Alastair King with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at Edinburgh in 2023

Alderman Alastair John Naisbitt King MStJ DL (born 5 November 1968), is a British financier and asset manager, who chairs Naisbitt King Asset Management Ltd. [1]

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An elected Alderman of the City of London since 2016, [2] King was commissioned a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London in 2022 [3] and was the Aldermanic Sheriff of London for 2022/23. [4] King was elected to serve as the 696th Lord Mayor of London from 8 November 2024.

Background and education

Born in 1968 at Cambridge to an academic father, Jack Naisbitt King MBE [5] (eldest son of John King by his wife Grace, daughter of James Naisbitt), [6] and artist mother, Ruth née Lewis, [7] he celebrates his Scottish ancestry. [8] [9]

After attending Oundle School, King read Law at the University of Kent (BA) before pursuing further studies in Finance at London Business School (MSc).

Career

Qualifying as a solicitor in 1995, King practised with Baker McKenzie in the City and in Asia, where he started investing in emerging markets. Appointed a senior executive at Spark Ventures (formerly NewMedia Spark plc), then managing director of Galahad Capital plc, he was CEO of Eredene Capital plc from 2005 to 2013 and Chairman of Glendevon King Asset Management from 2005 to 2016. [10] In 2016 he founded FCA-regulated Naisbitt King Asset Management Limited, [11] specialising in managing segregated portfolios of investment grade fixed income securities.

King is also Chairman of Common Earth, [12] an environmental foundation, since January 2019.

Public life

Civic service

Elected in 1999 as a Common Councillor for the Ward of Queenhithe, in 2006 he was promoted Deputy [13] and since 2016 King serves as the Ward's City Alderman. [14] Aldermanic Sheriff of London for 2022/23, [15] he has been elected as the 696th Lord Mayor of London taking office on 8 November 2024. [16]

Charity

Master of the Worshipful Company of Masons for 2023/24, [17] King also serves as Senior Warden of the Company of Entrepreneurs and Third Warden of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. [18] He is also a Liveryman of the Vintners’, Painter-Stainers’, Broderers’, Horners’, Feltmakers’, Coachmakers’ and Arbitrators’ Companies.

Vice-Chairman of Breast Cancer Haven and Chairman of the British Liver Trust, [19] King is also a Trustee of the Lord Mayor's Appeal [20] and of Morden College. [21]

Honours and appointments

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MStJ insignia

Personal life

On 13 April 2024 at the Guild Church of St Lawrence Jewry, King married Florence Walker, younger daughter of Angus Walker, Chairman of Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust. [23] Known familiarly as Floxxie, she is a journalist as well as pursuing PhD studies in epidemiology at Edinburgh University [24] and serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the British Army Reserve. [25] Her brothers-in-law are restaurant critic Giles Coren and Pointless host Alexander Armstrong.

The couple divide their time between homes in the City of London and Aberdeenshire.

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  2. ↑ www.alastairking.net
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  4. ↑ "City of London elects Sheriffs of London for 2022/23". City of London. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
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  6. ↑ www.nesbittnisbet.org.uk
  7. ↑ www.ruthkingceramics.com
  8. ↑ www.courtofthelordlyon.scot
  9. ↑ www.pressandjournal.co.uk
  10. ↑ "Mr Alderman and Sheriff Alastair King". King Edward’s Witley. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "About Us". Naisbitt King. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  12. ↑ www.common.earth
  13. ↑ www.queenhitheward.org
  14. ↑ "Alastair John Naisbitt King DL (Alderman)". City of London. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  15. ↑ "City elects Sheriffs of London for 2022/23". The Lord Mayor’s Appeal. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  16. ↑ "Fund boss Alastair King chosen as next Lord Mayor". Financial News London. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  17. ↑ "Masons' Co. Court of Assistants". The Worshipful Company of Masons. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  18. ↑ "Election of City Sheriffs 2022/23". The Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  19. ↑ "British Liver Trust appoints new Chairman of Trustees". The British Liver Trust. 2 March 2023.
  20. ↑ "Trustees". The Lord Mayor’s Appeal. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  21. ↑ www.mordencollege.org.uk
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