Lex Greensill finds grist for the mill in lockdown life

The globetrotting farmer turned supply-chain financier is seeing out the pandemic in his northern English home - with a new string to his bow.

Lex Greensill in lockdown at home. Life may have slowed down in rural Cheshire, but the opposite is true in supply-chain finance.

Hans van LeeuwenJournalist

May 3, 2020 – 2.19pm

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Financial Review Rich Lister Lex Greensill made his fortune running his eponymous supply-chain finance empire – so he’s practically written the rule book on acting as an intermediary between buyers and sellers.

Locked down at home in a village in northern England, he’s found a new and unexpected way to play the go-between: as the local miller.

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Hans van LeeuwenJournalistHans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.