Lifetime achievement award: Dennis McLaughlin

Things that are interesting; things that are new. These twin attractions are how Dennis McLaughlin explains the unique, high-wire career that took him from a maths professorship at Princeton, to McKinsey, Citi and Merrill Lynch, then to a trio of chief risk officer roles at LSEG, Fnality and – since January – the World Bank. He seems to mean it. In the course of this interview, McLaughlin uses the word “interesting” almost three-dozen times – first, when explaining how he came to study mathematics at university. “It was interesting, and that’s a theme. I do what I find interesting. It’s…