A qualified barrister at law, during her career Dorner worked in a range of roles in the United Kingdom and internationally.
As well as being chairman of Control Risks, she is a non-executive director of Rolls-Royce and AXA[2][3][4] Dorner attended Whitley Bay Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford where she received an MA in jurisprudence in 1976.
[8] At the helm of HSBC during 2013's money laundering scandal, she's said "One of the things that I am trying to get through to our entire bank is I would rather you walked away from a piece of business that has a question mark next to it than do it in order to boost your bottom line.
[13] This appointment created the first all-female leadership team at a major British bank, with Jayne-Anne Gadhia acting as chief executive officer.
[15] Dorner is to step down after the company's April 2023 AGM, and will be replaced by former Land Securities executive Robert Noel.