Sharmin Takin is the Head of Legal at the UK Debt Management Office, an executive agency of HM Treasury responsible for debt and cash management for the UK Government. She previously held in-house roles at J.P. Morgan (as Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel) and GE Capital (as the first Treasury Counsel for the EMEA region). Sharmin started her career at the law firms Slaughter and May and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in London and New York. She is dual qualified and holds degrees from Cambridge University and Columbia Law School. She is also a Trustee at East End Citizens Advice Bureaux, a charity serving the Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets communities.