By 2030, there will be over 20 million older people in the UK

Nigel Waterson has been a Trustee of the ILC since 2010. He was formerly a Conservative MP and Shadow Pensions Minister and Shadow Minister for Older People. He was also a long-serving Chair of the All Party Group for Older People at Westminster.

Nigel was until recently Chair of NOW:Pensions, the third largest master trust in the UK, and has also been Chair of the Equity Release Council. He is a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and a member of the Pensions Management Institute. Nigel is an independent professional pension trustee.

Nigel was appointed as Chair of the ILC Board in July 2023.

Sanjeev has extensive corporate finance, banking & investments (including treasury) and startup/entrepreneurial experience – living in developing (in Africa, Asia) countries as well developed (UK, USA) markets.

Developing new propositions, he operated at all levels: formulating & adapting strategy; handling operational and commercial activities; governance, financing & legal processes; and stakeholder dialogue, driving change, technical innovation & financial automation.

He delivered debt & equity financings, turnarounds & restructurings, M&A and new ventures in regional banks and the Big 4 across 12+ countries in multiple sectors (energy, telecoms, agribusiness, industrials, transport).

Sanjeev is an alumnus of London Business School and the University of Maryland. A CIMA-qualified accountant, he holds the SASB (ISSB/IFRS) FSA Credential as well as various sustainability & climate/environment related certificates.

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.

Alexander is Professor in Practice in Public Policy at the London School of Economics where he teaches ‘Anticipatory Policymaking’ and directs the MPA in Data Science and Public Policy.

A career diplomat, he has worked as an adviser to the Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street, Strategy Director in the Cabinet Office, and Director Cyber in the Foreign Office. He has served as Deputy and Acting High Commissioner to India and (briefly) Pakistan, led a United Nations Security Council expert group, and been a senior adviser at the U.S. Department of State. He has also worked for think-tanks in London, New York and Washington DC.

His former academic posts include serving as the Henry Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, as a Senior Fellow at Yale, and as a Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. He has a Ph.D. in politics and was a Yale World Fellow.

Tim Fassam is Public Affairs Director at Phoenix Group, where he is responsible for public policy and government relations. Prior to joining Phoenix Tim was Director of Government Relations and Policy at UK wealth management trade association PIMFA, MD of Public Affairs, Policy and Research at TheCityUK and Director of UK Public Affairs at Prudential. He has previously acted as a trustee of international relations think tank Asia House and international development charity TFAC.

Paul’s career has been in corporate communications, marketing and branding in the public and private sector. For over 13 years as Saga’s group communications director, he developed the group’s campaigning, public policy research and lobbying in the UK and EU; and before that led communications and brand for a pension and financial services provider. Paul has also been a pension fund trustee and responsible for the operations of several charities.

Mr Green is now a freelance public policy adviser and is also an independent member of the audit committee member for the Biochemical Society and the scientific publisher Portland Press, his public service includes being a magistrate in Kent.

Paul says: “Put simply, I have a passion for making a difference and with a long-standing interest in the societal and public policy challenges and opportunities that come with an aging society I am very familiar with, and hugely inspired by the ILC’s work. Being a trustee is a privilege and I will endeavour to be an insightful ‘critical friend’ to help drive our work and impact.”

Jean’s background is in technology, education and marketing.

She began her career as a teacher of English, but retrained in computing, becoming one of IBM’s first female computer salesmen.

After moving back to her hometown of Manchester, she joined Manchester Business School, retraining again as a Chartered Marketer – then returned to IBM, this time in IT outsourcing, designing and delivering communications, culture change and marketing projects for their new IT teams.

She was Director of Oldham Business School until it merged with the University of Huddersfield.  Then, she took up the post of Group Marketing Manager for Promethean Technologies, as they rebranded and relaunched themselves as a major vendor of IT for schools worldwide.

When the family moved to the Midlands, she took senior interim roles in the domestic energy (Carillion), charity (Practical Action) and international engineering (GL/DNV) sectors, managing reorganisations, re-brands, and implementing digital strategies to support the changes.

Before retiring, she was Communications Business Partner for IT at Rolls-Royce, and was Programme Manager for their Digital Academy.  

Since then, she’s been on the board of the St Chad’s Academy Trust, and Trustee of Lichfield u3a; over lockdown she delivered many national Zooms to encourage people to adopt digital technologies.  She’s currently part of the u3a’s “Future Lives” group, which helps older people to think constructively about their future.  In her “spare” time she is a keen painter, especially of portraits.

Previously a senior civil servant in the Treasury, Sue has been an independent board member and consultant for the past 12 years.

Her current roles include lay member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Regulatory Board, Trustee of Surviving Economic Abuse, and chair of the Fairer Finance Consumer Advisory board. In the last Parliament, Sue was a Specialist Adviser to the Treasury sub-committee on financial services regulation.

Sue previously chaired the independent Financial Services Consumer Panel, which influences the Financial Conduct Authority’s policies and rules in the interests of financial services consumers. She was also a Trustee Director at leading master trust The People’s Pension, where she was responsible for member engagement, and a Trustee of StepChange debt charity.

Internationally, Sue has worked with the OECD and Alliance for Financial Inclusion on financial consumer protection, financial literacy, and financial inclusion. She recently advised the Central Bank of Uzbekistan on how to integrate consumer protection into its financial services legislation. Sue was also a member representative on EIOPA’s Occupational Pension Stakeholder Group.

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

Originally a Commercial Banker, Helene is a Director with the Centre for Digital Banking and Finance in LIBF, part of the Vacuumlabs Community Bank team, an experienced FinTech Programme Director, exited entrepreneur, educator and author. Her career boasts a number of ‘firsts’, including the FinTech Scale Programme for Rainmaking, the Inaugural Programme of Education and Events for Innovate Finance, the FinTech Entrepreneurship Masters’ for UCL. Board and advisory roles include digital identity scale up, Biid, the UK safeguarding RegTech, Kalgera, and the UK Digital Bank Pennyworth. On the CW 100 Women in Tech Award list, the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Power List, & the Fintech Magazine 100 Women in Fintech list, she also took part in FCA 2020 Data Sprint on SME Lending, the Executive Steering Committee of the CapGemini Global FinTech Report, the Advisory Board member for MoneyLive. Her book ‘Reinventing Banking & Finance: Frameworks to navigate global fintech innovation’ (Kogan), was the #1 banking book for 2021 by Investopedia.

Glyn Ryland is by background a pensions lawyer and an Accredited Trustee. He is also a trustee of the George Fentham Charity and Educational Trust.

He qualified as a solicitor in 1988, worked in Herbert Smith’s pensions team for four years (including working on the Savinson Committee on Electricity Pensions restructuring and pensions protection in the run up to privatisation), and then moved to Hong Kong for three years to work as a retirement schemes lawyer. In Hong Kong, Glyn served on the Law Society’s Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance Committee and, having helped to shape the legislation, he registered the first ever scheme under that new regulatory regime.

From 1999 to 2020 he was the Head of Pensions at Gowling WLG (UK) LLP, including three years as a member of the firm’s Board. He was a founder (and member for ten years) of the Association of Pensions Lawyers’ Investment Sub-Committee.  At Gowling he worked extensively on pensions risk management and liability transfer projects for a wide range of larger and smaller pension schemes – longevity clearly being an issue at the heart of those projects. His clients included industry bodies and advisers, as well as pension funds and employers.  Latterly, he was also a director of The Trustee Corporation (providing professional trusteeship services mostly to pension funds in the private sector and the third sector).   

Glyn is co-author of Tolley’s E-Pensions and of the Asian Law Journal’s guide to Hong Kong employment and pensions law.

Annabel is an experienced director, facilitator, consultant, and coach. She knows health and social care very well having worked with and for the NHS and its partner organisations for over 30 years.

Annabel is a skilful facilitator and coach who works with boards, executive teams, and senior multi-professional teams and with individuals on a one to one basis. She has expertise in designing and then managing large-scale organisation and leadership development programmes within the context of merger and new start-ups. She moves from concept to detailed delivery with ease and her expertise within leadership and OD is widely recognised. She has designed and led talent management programmes for Chief Executives and Directors and has an outstanding track record in the design and delivery of tailored selection and development centres.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annabel-scarfe-1a494b9/

Partner, Mercer
Leader Total Wellbeing and Longevity
London, Tower Place West  

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”.

Janet has over 30 years’ experience in housing and regeneration, in local government, housing associations, the voluntary and private sectors.  Her work includes neighbourhood renewal, effective community engagement, urbanism and housing for older people, including published research.  She has held senior positions with the London Boroughs of Lewisham, where she was Head of Strategic Housing and Regulatory Services, and Camden, and was Director, JTP Cities with JTP architects. Janet is Vice Chair of Peabody Trust’s Care and Support Committee, and a Director of Groundwork South. She is Chair of the u3a national Future Lives Group, and on the Crouch End Neighbourhood Forum. She was a Director of the Academy of Urbanism.

Chairman, Global Longevity Council at the World Demographic and Aging Forum

Dr. Vandenbroucke serves on the Boards of the American Federation for Aging Research, the World Demographic and Aging Forum and the IFAPP Academy; He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Medicine of the United Kingdom and an IFAPP Academy Global Fellow in Medicines Development. A frequent speaker on health, aging, and health policy issues, he is also a Visiting Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.

Dr. Vandenbroucke’ s career has been dedicated to Clinical Development and Medical Affairs and has included stints in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America.  Before his current position, he has been Chief Medical Officer Pfizer Hospital, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer Essential Health, Head of Medical Strategy for Pfizer Inc. and VP Medical Affairs of Pfizer’s Essential Health portfolio in North America. He has also led the Clinical Development of all Pfizer compounds in Asia, Central/Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa-Middle East and of Pfizer’s Established Products globally and was responsible for developing compounds specifically for diseases of the developing world, such as malaria and river blindness.

Prior appointments also include Vice President, Medical and Regulatory Affairs, Canada/Latin America/Africa-Middle East, Senior Vice President, Medical Division Pfizer Japan, based in Tokyo, Director of Medical Operations, Asia and Australia/NZ for Pfizer, based in Hong Kong, and Medical Director, Lipitor based in New York, responsible for the international clinical development program of Lipitor.

He holds a Medical Degree from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), an MBA degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and an MSc (First Honors) from Hibernia College (Ireland). He is fluent in Dutch, Spanish, English, French, and German.