Knight became Chief Executive of APCIMS (the Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers) in September 1997. She stayed in this role until 2006. Knight was appointed as a
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to the financial services industry in the 2007 New Year's honours list. In April 2007 she became the Chief Executive of the
British Bankers' Association. After a verdict against the BBA at the
High Court in April 2011, some BBA members criticized Knight's handling of the case and called for her to step down as Chief Executive. On 1 April 2012 Knight resigned as chief executive of the BBA but said she would remain until a replacement was found. She stepped down in September of that year. In May 2012 it was announced that Knight had been appointed chief executive of trade body Energy UK, effective the end of July. She stepped down from this position in 2014 to focus on her non-executive portfolio career. As of 2021, Knight's portfolio of directorships includes
Tullett Prebon,
Provident Financial,
Taylor Wimpey,
Arbuthnot Latham & Co and Froggatt Trustee Ltd in the UK,
Encore Capital Group in the US, and Astana Financial Services Authority in Kazakhstan. She is also an advisor to Goodacre UK and Oxera Consulting. She has previously served as a non-executive director of
Brewin Dolphin,
Office of Tax Simplification,
Transport for London, Financial Skills Partnership,
Scottish Widows,
Logica, the
Port of London Authority,
Lloyds TSB and
South East Water. ==References==