The ‘reformed economist’: who is the new chief tasked with saving the CBI?

Rain Newton-Smith will have to decide how to reform, and try to rehabilitate, the CBI Photograph: handout/Handout

She’s the woman with the unenviable task of assuming the leadership of Britain’s largest business group after a misconduct scandal.

Rain Newton-Smith has been appointed director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Her predecessor, Tony Danker, was sacked after an independent investigation into his workplace conduct.