Christiana Stewart-Lockhart

Director General, EISA

Christiana is Director General of the EIS Association, the trade body for the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and the Seed EIS ecosystem. The EIS and SEIS are government schemes that have resulted in £34billion of private investment into 60,000 UK growth businesses. The EIS Association has more than 400 members including entrepreneurs, advisers and investors using the schemes. Christiana previously spent more than a decade working in Westminster and holds a BA in Politics from the University of York. She was included in the 2025 Women in Trade Associations powerlist, is a member of TISA’s Financial Education Council, and sits on the Advisory Board for the APPG for Entrepreneurship.