Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has boosted its leadership team with the hiring of Aviva Investors’ Camille Blackburn as chief compliance officer (CCO).

She will join LGIM in January 2020, replacing the retiring Teresa Poy. Ms Blackburn will be responsible for overseeing the company’s global compliance framework, enhancing its risk management capabilities.

Prior to joining Aviva Investors, Ms Blackburn was a deputy head, policy and risk, at the Central Bank of Ireland. Between January 2014 and December 2015, she was a principal advisor to the Australian Treasury for the Australian Financial System Inquiry and Capability Review of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Other positions she has held include acting as chair Investment Association’s Brexit Committee.

Her appointment is one of a series of senior female hires by LGIM to management positions this year, with the new CCO set to report to chief risk officer Margaret Ammon, who joins the company from M&G in February 2020.

Ms Blackburn’s arrival also follows the appointment of Michelle Scrimgeour, who joined LGIM from Columbia Threadneedle as chief executive officer in February, and the naming of Sonja Laud as chief investment officer.  

Ms Scrimgeour believed that Ms Blackburn would provide valuable experience to the firm and enhance its ability to keep up with an evolving risk and compliance framework.

She explained: “With Camille’s appointment as CCO, alongside Margaret’s as CRO, we will add two high calibre leaders for these critical functions. Their appointments will not only enrich the combined experience of our leadership team, but also ensure that LGIM’s risk and compliance framework stays in-step with the demands of an increasingly complex regulatory and risk management landscape.”