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Paul Fisher

Executive Director, Markets
Bank of England

Paul has been the Bank of England’s Executive Director for Markets since March 2009. He and his directorate are responsible for all Bank operations in financial markets and their balance sheet consequences; managing the UK’s official foreign exchange reserves on behalf of HMT; market intelligence for monetary and financial stability. Paul is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee as well as several senior management committees of the Bank.

Paul joined the Bank in 1990, having previously worked at the University of Warwick between 1980 and 1990 where he specialised in research on macroeconomic models.
He has been part of the Bank’s senior staff since 1995. Those positions include:
• Head of Foreign Exchange Division (FED) 2002-2009, where he was responsible for management of the UK’s official foreign exchange reserves and the foreign currency operations of the Bank of England. As head of that division, Paul has chaired London’s Foreign Exchange Committee (known as the Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee) since early 2002.

• Private Secretary to the late Governor, Sir Edward George, 1999-2002, where he was responsible for organising the Governor’s office and acted as secretary to committee meetings of the Governors and Executive Directors.

• Head of the Conjunctural Assessment and Projections Division 1995-1999, where he was responsible for the Bank’s domestic and international forecasts and economic assessment of the major international economies. The data analysis role included assessing the work of the Bank’s regional Agents. From June 1997, presented both data assessment and forecasts to the MPC.
Paul written extensively on economic models of the UK economy and written or contributed to numerous articles on macroeconomic models, business cycles and exchange rates. He achieved his PhD in macroeconomic modelling at the University of Warwick in 1990.

Mark Goyder

Founder Director
Tomorrow’s Company

Mark is Founder Director of Tomorrow’s Company, a not-for-profit research and agenda-setting organisation responsible for the business-led Tomorrow’s Global Company inquiry whose findings were published in June 2007. A business-led think-tank, Tomorrow’s Company is committed to creating a future for business which makes equal sense to staff, shareholders and society.

After 15 years as a manager in manufacturing businesses, Mark Goyder initiated the Royal Society for the encouragement of arts, manufacturing and commerce (RSA) Tomorrow's Company Inquiry, a business-led inquiry into ‘the role of business in a changing world’. The objective was to develop a shared vision of the company of the future.

In 1995 he founded Tomorrow's Company and, over the past ten years, has inspired and challenged the boards, leaders and managers of leading large and small companies with his clear vision and practical insights into the changing agenda for leadership, governance, and stakeholder relationships, most recently with the publication of Restoring Trust: investment in the twenty-first century (June 2004). A prolific writer and winner of the Institute of Management Studies (IMS) Tillers Millennium Trophy for best speaker, he has addressed audiences all over the world.

Mark is also a member of the British Airways Corporate Responsibility Board, the BT Leadership Advisory Panel and the Camelot Advisory Panel for Social Responsibility. He also writes a monthly column in Ethical Corporation Magazine.

David Haigh

Head of Workplace Pensions Reform
Department for Works & Pensions

David has been at the Department for Work and Pensions for nine years. He is the head of the Workplace Pension Reform team and has been working on Pension Reform for the last two and a half years. His team have responsibility for delivering the regulations to support the Pensions Act 2008.

David has also spent 18 months on secondment in New Zealand where he played an integral role in the introduction of a raft of radical reforms to overhaul the welfare system.

Clive Grimley

Head of DC Practice
Barnett Waddingham

Clive graduated with a degree in Economics and then qualified as an Inspector of Taxes. He joined Barnett Waddingham in 2003 and is based in the London office, specialising in advising employers on defined contribution pension arrangements, group risk insurances and flexible benefits.

Over the last 20 years Clive has gained a wide experience in employee benefits, especially pensions and has acted as an independent pension trustee. He is a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute, an Affiliate of the Institute of Actuaries and he has been a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Colin Hamilton

Commercial Director
Aon Consulting

Colin is commercial director for Pensions Administration at Aon Consulting. With over 20 years’ experience in the pensions industry, Colin has performed a variety of roles in operations management and latterly in business development.

Currently Colin’s role includes being responsible for business growth within pensions administration and shaping the firm’s administration proposition both to existing and potential clients, a principal focus of which is on service delivery and the qualitative measures that can be incorporated within the overall reporting structure.

Sarah Hutchinson

Head of Finance
British Airways

Sarah is Head of Finance at BA pensions and has responsibility for Finance and Investment Operations for BA’s two defined benefit schemes. An experienced chartered accountant with strong change management skills. First hand experience has been gained in various fields in the financial sector latterly focused on pensions, investment management and custody. Previous employment in outsourcing at a third party fund administrator (TPA) and broking administration.

Gavin Francis

Managing Director, Client Portfolio Management
Pareto

Since joining Pareto in 1997, Gavin has acted as Client Portfolio Manager for clients in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Australia. He developed Pareto’s performance attribution systems and has a keen interest in analysing the way risk is managed in portfolios. Previously, Gavin worked as Head of Research at Paribas Asset Management, where he developed a quantitative framework for global asset allocation and was a member of the Strategic Investment Committee. Prior to this, Gavin was an Assistant Director at County NatWest Investment Management. Having started his career in 1987 working on the Quantitative Equity desk, he moved to the Product Development Group, where he constructed a successful global bond model and worked on the application of neural networks to stock selection. Gavin is an associate of the UK Society of Investment Professionals. Gavin’s has had papers and articles published on currency and risk management. He holds an MA in Mathematics from St. John's College, Cambridge.

Ben Fox

Partner
Goodhart Partners

Ben has 11 years’ experience researching bond and alternative managers. He is a founding member of the Goodhart team from its inception at WMAM, which he joined in September 2005 from Fidelity. At Fidelity Ben was a member of the Multi-Manager team with specific responsibility for bond manager research and selection. He joined Fidelity from Aon Asset Management, the Multi-Manager subsidiary of Aon Corp., where he was a fund manager. Prior to this, he was Head of Bond Manager Research at Aon Investment Consulting in London. Ben is a CFA charterholder and has an MA in Mathematics from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University.

Lillian Goldthwaite

Executive Manager
Funds Strategy & Selection Group
Friends Provident

Lillian joined Friends Provident in 2008 as the manager of the Fund Strategy and Selection Group. In that role she shapes the unit-linked proposition for both UK Life and Pension platforms, overseeing fund selection and governance.

Lillian has held a variety of investment product and strategy roles over the past 21 years. Previously, as head of product management for FTSE she worked with pension schemes and asset managers to develop new investable indexes and benchmarks. Earlier in her career she led strategy and business development for Morningstar, helping to build its institutional products including advice and guidance products and consultancy services to DC providers in the US and Europe. She has also worked in institutional fixed income with Dresdner RCM, where she was responsible for product development and consultant relations. Other roles include Hellman and Friedman and Robinson-Humphrey/Lehman Brothers

Caroline Goodman

Managing Director
Institutional Protection Services

Caroline is Managing Director and co-founder of Institutional Protection Services (IPS). Previously Caroline worked for the London Stock Exchange as Head of International Business Development and then Head of New Business Streams. She also sat on the Exchange’s Management Committee. Prior to this, she worked in various market regulation roles and before that, for Credit Lyonnais in Paris, trading futures. IPS (www.institutionalprotection.com) is a London-based firm that specialises in tracing and recovering monies awarded to European investors following class actions in the US and elsewhere.

Louise Harris

Head of Pension Communications
Capita Hartshead

Louise joined Capita Hartshead in January 2009 in a new role as Head of Pension Communications with a specific remit to further develop the communications services offered to clients.

Louise is a senior communications professional with roots in graphic design with 16 years’ experience in pensions, employee benefits, internal, corporate and marketing communication. She has experience in strategic communications and delivery across all layers of creative media including web, print, email, face to face and DVD. Her approach is to work in partnership with clients to really understand their objectives and help them achieve intelligent and well-purposed communication strategies.

She is a member of the UK Chapter of IABC (International Association of Business Communicators), has a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design and Chartered Institute of Marketing Advanced Certificates. Louise also has extensive experience of working with the Plain English Campaign.

John Harrison

Head of UK Institutional Advisory Solutions and UK Chief Investment Officer
UBS Global Asset Management

John Harrison is Head of UK Institutional Advisory Solution within the Global Investment Solutions team. He is responsible for developing our advisory services for UK clients. Since 2005 John has also been UK Chief Investment Officer with overall responsibility for the investment of all UK clients’ portfolios.

John has 27 years investment industry experience, including 22 years at UBS Global Asset Management.

Tony Hodges

Managing Director
Anthony Hodges Consulting

Tony is Managing Director of Anthony Hodges Consulting Ltd, an international firm of pension communication consultants based in the UK. The company has grown from Tony to nearly 40. In 2008 AHC opened its first overseas office in Sydney.

He has a video and educational background and is interested in helping forward the cause of pension education for members.

Lee Hollingworth

Head of DC Consulting
Hymans Robertson

Lee works within the scheme design and management practice area, where he is responsible for business development, business planning and the marketing of the firm’s DC consulting services to clients. He also retains a number of ongoing client engagements.
Lee is a regular speaker at industry events and author of regular DC related articles in the media.

Kenneth Howse

Senior Researcher
Fellow Oxford Institute of Ageing
Kenneth joined the Institute from the Centre for Policy on Ageing, where for several years he worked on a range of issues, including health policy and the place of religion in later life. His interest in ageing issues began in the late 1980s, when he was a Research Fellow with the Institute of Medical Ethics and worked on rationing problems in health care and the ethics of psychiatric research. This background in applied ethics is reflected in his strong interest in the ethical and normative dimension of the policy implications of demographic ageing.
He manages the Health and Longevity research theme, and his current research focus is intergenerational equity and ethical issues surrounding ageing. He is currently working on problems of generational fairness in pension reform and the policy issues that are likely to arise as a result of the increasing prevalence of extreme longevity.
Howse was appointed co-ordinator, with Professor Sarah Harper, of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) Oxford research programme on ageing, and was also invited as an expert on longevity for the EU Framework ENHANCE project (longevity, biotechnology and human enhancement).

Jamie Jenkins

Head of Employee Wealth Solutions
Standard Life

Jamie has worked in financial services for over 20 years, most of which he has spent in the Corporate Pensions area – both Operations and Marketing. He is currently leading the development of Standard Life’s ‘Employee Wealth Plan,’ whereby the various corporate products and services will be brought together within one holistic proposition. He works closely with the flexible benefits provider, Vebnet, which is now part of the Standard Life Group.

Prior to his move to Marketing in 2008, he led the Corporate Pensions operation, working with some of the largest corporate benefit consultants, intermediaries and clients on the implementation and management of their pension arrangements. He was responsible for steering the area through Simplification in 2006, and subsequently establishing the Corporate SIPP operation.

Jamie is a regular commentator on developments in the corporate market.