Ruth Martin, Managing Director, Securities & Investment Institute

Ruth Martin joined the SII as Director of Qualifications in 2002 and became Managing Director in 2004. She is responsible for all the main products and services such as qualifications, publishing and membership.

Ruth Martin's career has focussed on the way in which "best professional practice" can be implemented through education and training.

Ruth's first career was in the UK executive Civil Service at the Department of Employment where she held a range of managerial and policy posts related to the links between employment and training. She has been leading the development of SII's strategy in the Middle East and India. This has included developing new qualification and partnerships in the Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Dubai, Bahrain and Kuwait.

She has an MA from the Department of Organisational Psychology, Birbeck College University of London, is a chartered member of the UK Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the UK's Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Prior to joining the SII she was Director of Professional Development at the Market Research Society.

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