Alderman Vincent Keaveny

Vincent Thomas KeavenyKStJ (born July 1965, Dublin) is a commercial lawyer serving as the 693rd Lord Mayor of London.

Biography

Educated at St Michael's College, University College Dublin, and Trinity College Dublin, Keaveny has, since 1989, lived and worked in England, where he qualified to practise as a solicitor in 1992. He has been a partner in DLA Piper since 2015.

Keaveny has served as alderman for the ward of Farringdon Within since 2013, and served as a Sheriff of the City of London in 2018–19. He is a liveryman of the City of London Solicitors' Company, the Worshipful Company of Woolmen, the Distillers, the Spectacle Makers, the Stationers and Newspaper Makers, the Framework Knitters, the Upholders, and the Security Professionals.

In 2018 Keaveny was award the UCD Alumni Award in Law.

Keaveny was elected as the Lord Mayor of London in 2021, and took office on 13 November 2021.