[2] After graduating from LSE in 1968, she joined HM Treasury, where she worked on a range of macroeconomic, monetary, and financial issues.
She was permanent secretary at the Welsh Office from 1996 to 1999, where she oversaw the setting up of the National Assembly for Wales.
[2] From 2003 to 2008 she was a deputy governor at the Bank of England, serving on its Monetary Policy Committee, where she was "one of the more moderate, centrist figures".
[3] In December 2008, she became an independent non-executive director of HSBC Holdings,[5] where she is also a member of the audit and risk committees.
[7] Lomax is on the Board of the Royal National Theatre and of De Montfort University in Leicester.