Karina Robinson

Karina Robinson FCSI (Hon) is the CEO of Redcliffe Advisory Ltd., which provides Chairman/CEO Advisory services.
Karina connects the worlds of Finance, Deep Tech and Defence, and has a reputation as a benign disruptor. She has also been around a very, very long time, which explains this excessively long biography.
She sits as Non-Executive Director on the Board of Atlanti, an Anglo-Swiss Fund Management firm.
In the quantum ecosphere, Karina is Senior Advisor to Multiverse Computing, Europe’s largest quantum & AI software firm, winner of Europe’s Future Unicorn Award 2024.
She is the Founder of The City Quantum and AI Summit, a unique event in the heart of the City of London, now celebrating its Sixth Anniversary of bringing together the international quantum ecosphere, the Global City and Defence. She was involved in brainstorming NATO’s Quantum Strategy.
She is is an Advisor to both MissionLink, which supports national security, and The Entrepreneurs Network, the think tank for the UK’s entrepreneurs.
She recently joined the Global India Business Corridor (CIBC) as Executive Advisor to the Board, with the aim of deepening trade and investment between the UK and India.
In the City, she was Chair of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal Advisory Board, Past Master of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers, and is an Honorary Fellow of the CISI.
Karina ran Robinson Hambro with City legend Rupert Hambro CBE for over a decade.
At the London School of Economics, she is an Emeritus Governor and Co-Director of The Inclusion Initiative.
The first half of her career was spent as a journalist at The Banker magazine and Bloomberg/TV. She began her career at merchant bank Morgan Grenfell as the Spanish Equity Analyst. She was educated in Madrid, at the Hotchkiss School in the US and at the London School of Economics.