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

Trustees

Nigel Waterson (Chair)

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 Chhugani, FCMA, CGMA (Treasurer)

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.

Shaun Crawford

Shaun Crawford is the Chairman of Insurwave, a new business model for the Marine Insurance market based on blockchain technology. He retired from EY in June 2021 where he held the position of Global Vice Chair of Industry at EY. In this role, he oversaw over 60,000 industry specialists through 16 global sectors, with responsibilities to ensure EY kept at the forefront of industry disruption and convergence issues.

He focused on developing innovative solutions to address the critical issues facing business today and supported those delivering programs utilizing his deep industry knowledge and expertise in helping clients navigate the challenges of disruption.

Shaun has been in the Financial Services industry for >30 years having worked both in consulting & line management with the majority of European Insurers & UK Retail Banks. Majority of the time serving the life, pensions, health & wealth market.
Author of disruptive thought leadership on the subjects of; Health Insurer of the Future, Sensor Based Insurance, Block chain for Insurers, Digital Insurance Transformation, 5G and Global Trade.

Over the past 15 years, Shaun’s experience has included the design and delivery of a number of large transformation projects for European Insurers as well as leading the European due diligence for a Top 3 Global Insurer as they purchased another Global life assurer.

Shaun has managed and delivered a number of strategy and start up programmes for Global insurers, including engagement with various international regulators and insurer business partners across the supply chain.

Prof Alexander Evans OBE

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

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 Green

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 Jackson

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.

Sue Lewis

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 Specialist Adviser to the Treasury sub-committee on financial services regulation, and lay member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Regulatory Board. Sue is also a Trustee of Surviving Economic Abuse, and the FairBanking Foundation.

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.

Helene Panzarino

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

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 Scarfe MBE

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/

Janet Sutherland, CIHM, AoU

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.

Dr Pol Vandenbroucke, MD, MSc, MBA, FFPM

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.

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