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Shirine Khoury-Haq
Co-op Group
Shirine is Group CEO at Co-op and has been a Director on the Co-op Board since joining in 2019. Shirine joined the Co-op in August 2019 as Chief Financial Officer and later also became Chief Executive Officer Life Services, leading Co-op Funeralcare, Insurance and Legal Services. She became Group CEO in 2022.
Before joining the Co-op, Shirine was Chief Operating Officer for the Lloyd’s insurance market, which comprised of more than 50 leading insurance companies operating in over 200 countries. She also led the digital modernisation programme for the wider London insurance industry.
In addition to holding senior positions at IBM, McDonalds and insurer, Catlin Group, Shirine has worked in a number of regulated sectors in the UK and overseas including retail, IT, pharmaceuticals and consumer goods.
Shirine was previously a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Persimmon Plc and a Non-Executive Director at the Post Office.
About Co-op Group
Co-op Group is one of the world’s largest consumer co-operatives. It was founded in 1844 based on co-operative values and comprises of food retail, funeral, insurance, and legal services businesses. Those values remain today. Co-op is owned by and run for its 6.3 million members, existing to deliver its vision ‘Co-operating to create more value for our member owners every day’ and to meet member’s needs and champion the causes that matter to them.
With 55,000 colleagues, 2,300 food stores and more than 800 funeral homes and an annual turnover of over £11billion, Co-op also supplies products to 6,000 other outlets, including those run by independent co-operatives, or through its wholesale business, Nisa Retail Limited.