Alain Dromer, chief executive of Aviva Investors is to become the next Investment Committee chairman of the ABI.

Dromer will replace Keith Skeoch, chief executive of Standard Life Investments, on 15 September, and will join the ABI board.

Dromer has been chief executive of Aviva Investors since September 2007. He said: “As the Financial Services Sector emerges from one of the biggest financial crises in memory