The International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC) have recruited Lawrence Churchill, Yvonne Sonsino and Andrew Oxlade to its Trustee Board.

Lawrence Churchill will take on the role of ILC Chair in February 2025

A full list of ILC trustees is available on our website: https://ilcuk.org.uk/our-people/governance/

Nigel Waterson, Chair of ILC welcomed the new trustees

“ILC has grown in size and influence since I joined the ILC Board. We work with politicians and policymakers across the world and punch well above our weight.

It has been an honour to serve as ILC’s Chair but in passing on the baton to Lawrence Churchill, I know ILC is in safe hands.”

I wish him, the other members of the Board and the ILC staff team every success in the future.”

Incoming ILC Chair, Lawrence Churchill said:

“I am honoured to become the ILC-UK’s next Chair. How society adapts to take advantage of longer lives is one of the biggest challenges – and opportunities – of the twenty-first century. I look forward to collaborating with the many experts who share our passion on new solutions for better lives enabled by greater longevity.’

New trustee, Yvonne Sonsino of Mercer said:

“I have been working closely with ILC for over a decade and have been really impressed with the quality and breadth of their research in the field of longevity and demographic change. Joining them as a new trustee in 2024 is an exciting opportunity to further my involvement with this important topic. Demographic transition, along with technology and climate transitions, needs a multi-disciplinary approach from Governments, organisations and individuals to succeed.”

Andrew Oxlade from Fidelity Personal investing added:

“I’ve long admired the ILC’s work. It has been a constant and persistent force for progress, keeping longevity high on the agenda in media and with policymakers. Its research continues to ask the questions that we all must answer if society is to successfully adapt to the realities of longer lifespans. I’m excited and honoured to be able to support their work as a trustee.”

Lyndsey Gorely, Head of Operations at ILC added

”Our trustees were delighted that for the second year in a row we had a very strong list of interested candidates. Our open recruitment process attracted around 50 people who wanted to join our board and the selection panel had a difficult choice between an abundance of talented individuals who were keen to work with us.

The staff team look forward to working with the successful, new board members to drive forward our strategic objective of developing and implement solutions to ensure we all live happier, healthier and more fulfilling longer lives.”

Trustee Biographies:

Lawrence Churchill

Lawrence has had an extensive career in Financial Services focused on innovation, governance and improving consumer outcomes. In private sector commercial life, he has been Chief Executive of three insurance groups, Senior Independent Director of BUPA and currently chairs Clara Pensions and the Independent Governance Committee at Vanguard. In the public sector, he was the founding Chairman of both the Pension Protection Fund and the National Employment Savings Trust as well as chairing the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. He has been a Director of the Personal Investment Authority, The Financial Ombudsman Service and the Board for Actuarial Standards.

In the third sector he has been a Trustee of the Royal Society of Arts, the Employers Forum on Disability, the ILC-UK, the Pensions Policy Institute and has played multiple leadership roles for Business in the Community.

He read Greats at St. John’s College, Oxford, was appointed CBE in 2010 for Public Service and awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Bath in 2024.

Yvonne Sonsino, Partner, Mercer
I have been in the HR Consulting industry for over forty years. My current focus is leading on Total Wellbeing – a holistic employee value proposition combining physical, emotional, financial, social and career wellbeing. In simple terms, this innovative and inclusive methodology ensures employees get equitable outcomes right across their employment deal, and as a result, employers are able to recruit, motivate and retain talent.

I am also involved in designing solutions for trends such as demographic transition, increasing longevity, flexible/new style employment and retirement models.  I co-chaired the UK Government Fuller Working Lives Business Strategy Group which led to UK policy change. My first book, The New Rules of Living Longer, was published in November 2015 and reached #3 in Amazon’s bestseller list. I have been working with the World Economic Forum on their series ‘The Longevity Economy – financial resilience for the 100 year life’ for the last four years.

During my career I have run Mercer’s International Consulting Business, led their Innovation Hub, lived in the Middle East and Europe and worked with global organisations on strategic HR and people programme design. I hold Masters Degrees in Psychology and Business Research and I am a Fellow of The Pensions Management Institute, previously an author of their International Diploma syllabus. I am a Director in the creative arts education sector and trained in advanced design thinking methodology. I am also a NED at Halixia – “for a better longer life”.

Andrew Oxlade

Andrew Oxlade is a director at Fidelity Personal Investing and a regular columnist for This is Money, where he writes about investment and financial planning. Andrew previously ran the public affairs and content function for investment company Schroders. He also has 20 years’ experience as a journalist, including senior roles at the Telegraph and the Daily Mail. He was also personal finance expert for ITV’s This Morning and an investment writer at the Financial Times

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Further details of all ILC’s Trustees are available here: Trustees – ILCUK and for further information on all the ILC’s work please go to www.ilcuk.org.uk

For more information about ILC’s Chief Executive, David Sinclair and other members of the staff team please go to OUR PEOPLE – ILCUK

About ILC

ILC is the UK’s leading authority on the impact of longevity on society.  We combine evidence, solutions and networks to make change happen.

ILC helps governments, policy-makers, businesses and employers develop and implement solutions to ensure we all live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives.

We want a society where we all live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives, where tomorrow is better than today and where future generations are better off. ILC wants to help forge a new vision for the 100-year life where everyone has the opportunity to learn across our lives and where new technology helps us contribute more to society.