Elizabeth Corley

Elizabeth Corley is an English author and financial executive from West Sussex, England, best known for the DCI Andrew Fenwick series of novels. While juggling the demands of running a major global investment company and a writing career is likely to overwhelm almost any other person, she has been so successful at it, that she has managed to attain success and respect in both fields. As a crime fiction writer, she was at one time the vice chairperson and committee member of the Crime Writers Association where she still maintains an active membership. Growing up, she was always a headstrong and spirited girl with something of a rebellious streak. As such, when she quit university to find a job selling shoes, her parents were disappointed though not much surprised. But she soon made a compromise with her parents to take a temporary office job with Sun Alliance, a company with whom both of them worked. It was not long before she was climbing the ranks at the company after attaining professional qualifications through correspondence and nighttime classes. She would go on to work for Coopers & Lybrand, and Mercury Asset Management, before she took up her current role of CEO at AllianzGI. Together with her family comprising of her husband and stepdaughter, she spends most of her time between France, Germany, and London. When she is not running AllianzGI or writing her crime novels, she loves to spend time with her family, traveling, cooking, gardening, and going to the opera.