The membership of the Board is designed to include a broad spectrum of scheme stakeholders. Members have been appointed either by appropriate representative bodies or by nomination and election. Please contact the Board member most appropriate to your interests in order to ask questions about the work of the Board or to put forward items for consideration.
Terms of reference of the Board (pdf, 8 pages, 123kb)
Information on attendance can be found towards the bottom of the page.
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Cllr Roger Phillips |
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| George Georgiou (GMB) George has worked in the Trade Union Movement for over 30 years. Commencing in the RMT (then NUR) as an Industrial Relations Officer before moving to the Royal College of Midwives in 2003 as an Employment Relations Adviser where he gained a specialist knowledge of Pay and Pensions in the NHS and assisted in the transfer to the 2008 and 2015 schemes. He then spent 5 years at the BMA and HCSA utilising his knowledge and gaining a greater understanding of practitioner schemes. In late 2016 he joined the GMB as a National Pensions Organiser and now specialises in Public Sector Pensions including the NHS, Civil Service and Local Government Pension Schemes. |
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| Cllr Andrew Thornton Cllr Andrew Thornton is chair of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF), vice chair of the Northern LGPS pool and member of the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) executive. A councillor in City of Bradford MDC since 2004, he has previously served as Bradford’s cabinet member for Environment & Sport, chaired its Corporate Scrutiny committee and is currently vice-chair of its Governance & Audit Committee. Cllr Thornton became chair of WYPF in 2015 and represents the Metropolitan Council Pension Authorities on the SAB. |
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| Cllr Nathan Yeowell Nathan Yeowell has been Chair of the Torfaen Pensions Committee and Chair of the Greater Gwent Pension Fund since May 2022. He became the new chair of the LGA’s Local Government Pensions Committee (LGPC) in September 2023. Nathan is also the executive director of the Future Governance Forum (FGF), a new think tank dedicated to the renewal of progressive governance, policy making, implementation and delivery. He is a former Head of Policy and external Affairs at the social sector think tank New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) and was Head of the Labour Group Office at the LGA 2007-12. |
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| Cllr John Beesley Cllr John Beesley is the Board representative for the County Pension Funds. He was Leader of Bournemouth Council until 2019 at which time local government reorganisation formed the new BCP Council. For 12 years he was also responsible for Bournemouth Council’s Resources Portfolio and Council budget, as well as the first budget for the new BCP Council. He was Chairman of the Dorset County Pension Fund for 5 years, and served on the Pension Fund Committee for a total of 20 years. He was Chairman of the Brunel Oversight Board which set up the Brunel Pension Pool and represented the Dorset County LGPS Fund on Brunel from its inception. In the private sector, he has been a Bournemouth hotelier for over 30 years and heads a hospitality consultancy specialising in hotel development and management. |
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| Charity Main Charity sits on the Board representing education employers. Charity graduated from the University of York in 1993 with a degree in Economics. She worked as an auditor for KPMG and led on a large apprenticeship programme for an accountancy training provider before joining Cambridge City Council in 2004 where she worked in wide-ranging roles for 14 years including leading on asset valuation and accounting, financial reporting, business rates forecasting and Collection Fund accounting. Charity joined Anglian Learning (then comprised of 7 schools) in January 2019 as Director of Finance and as part of the wider executive team supported the significant growth of the Trust. She was appointed to the role of Chief Operating Officer in June 2021 to lead a number of key areas, working with other members of the Central Leadership Team to improve service efficiency and impact for the benefit of the Trust’s pupils and colleagues. She is also the Trust’s Chief Financial Officer. Anglian Learning has continued to grow, reaching 18 schools in March 2025, with a further 4 expected to join in January 2026. The Trust will also operate a 630-place primary school being built on a new development which is currently awaiting planning permission. Nationally, she chairs the DfE LGPS Working Group and work as a member of the Academies Finance and Assurance Steering Group. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). |
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| Cllr John Fuller (The Lord Fuller OBE) John was born in Great Yarmouth and was appointed an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2019 for Public & Political Service. He was made a Peer in February 2024 and sits in the House of Lords. He gained a first-class degree in Agriculture [1990] and later in 1995 a Nuffield Scholarship to study advanced farming techniques in the United States. He occupies senior positions in the fertiliser industry and has other business interests, which include Directorships in diverse residential & commercial property, chemicals and farming enterprises. |
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| Cllr Chris Weaver Councillor Chris Weaver is the Cabinet Member for Finance, Modernisation, and Performance at Cardiff Council and has been since 2017. He was first elected as a Councillor in 2012 to represent the Cathays ward in the city, and re-elected in 2017 and 2022. In addition to cabinet portfolio responsibilities for Finance, HR, Procurement, and Health & Safety, Chris has been Chair of the Cardiff and Vale Pensions Committee since 2017. He is Cardiff’s representative on the Wales Pension Partnership (WPP), and for the year 2022-23 is Chair of the WPP’s Joint Governance Committee. He represents the Council on the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) General Assembly, and has recently joined the board of Data Cymru as a WLGA nominee. |
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| John Neal (Unite) John Neal is Unites Pensions Officer and provides advice to officers and members of the union on collective issues relating to pensions arising in the workplace. John is a Scheme Advisory Board (SAB) member for the Local Government Pension Scheme and NHS Pensions Scheme and a Joint Superannuation Committee member for the Civil Service Pension Scheme. John is an Alternate Trustee Director on the Plumbing Pensions Scheme and a Trustee on the Bluesky Pension scheme. John is a member of the Trade Unions Share Owners group (TUSO). |
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| Les Timbey (GMB) Les worked for Durham County Council for 26 years and retired in March 2025. He has been a Trade Union Representative for GMB for 22 years and is currently Branch President of his branch. He has been on LGPS GMB steering group for over 10 years and is currently Chair of this steering group. He also has been on the Pension Committee of Durham County Council for the last 10 years working alongside County Councillors and Officers of Durham County Councillors. He has been a Stanley Town Councillor for the past 8 years. |
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| Tommy Bowler Tommy has been employed by South Pembrokeshire District Council and then Pembrokeshire County Council after unification for thirty years. Since 2009 he has been the Electrical and Street Lighting Supervisor for the County. In his union role he is Branch Secretary for his Authority, he also chairs the Welsh Local Authorities Committee and the West Wales Area Activists Meeting. He represents West Wales Area Activists Committee on the Welsh Regional Committee. He also represents the Welsh Local Authorities on the National Local Authorities Committee, a role he has undertaken for over twenty years. He is also the Joint Trade Union Representative on the Dyfed Pension Board. |
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The Board has appointed the following three non voting members.
| Nick Kirby Nick is the TUC observer on the Scheme Advisory Board. He has been Lead Officer – Pensions at the National Education Union since September 2018, and was Principal Officer – Pensions at the National Union of Teachers from 2007-2018. Nick sits on the Teachers’ Pension Scheme Advisory Board and is also a Trustee of the National Union of Teachers staff pension scheme. Previously Nick was Senior and then Principal Researcher at Which? for six years, specialising in articles on pensions and investments. |
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| Kelvin Menon Kelvin is the ALATS observer on the Scheme Advisory Board. ALATS brings together all the County, District and Unitary Local Authorities as well as Police and Fire Treasurer’s Societies under one umbrella. Kelvin is currently Section 151 Officer of the Officer of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey and in that capacity is Co-chair of the Surrey and Sussex Police Officers’ Pension Board and Chair of the Surrey Police Staff Pension Board. He is also Vice-chairman of the Police and Crime Commissioners’ Treasurer’s Society (PACCTS) which brings together Section 151 officers from Forces across the country. He has had many years’ of pension experience as a Section 151 officer in Local Government and is currently the employer representative on the Pension Fund Committee for the Surrey Pension Fund. |
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| Matt Gurden Matt is the Deputy Government Actuary. He supports the Government Actuary lead the department and supports clients across the public sector on pensions, investment and financial risk issues. Prior to joining GAD in 2011 Matt was an actuary at several private sector actuarial consultancies providing pension and strategic investment advice to private sector clients. He is a former member of the UK Actuarial Profession’s (IFoA) risk management board, and chairs the joint IFoA and Institution of Civil Engineers risk group. |
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| Name | 22 July 2024 | 25 November 2024 | 24 March 2025 |
| Cllr Roger Phillips (Chair) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Yvonne Johnson | Apologies | - | - |
| Cllr Peter Mason | Yes | - | - |
| Cllr Nathan Yeowell (observer pending approval of first term) | - | Yes | Apologies |
| Cllr John Fuller | Yes | Yes | Apologies |
| Cllr Andrew Thornton | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Christopher Weaver | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr John Beesley | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Emelda Nicholroy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jon Richards | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Tansley | Yes | No | Apologies |
| John Neal | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| George Georgiou | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Garry Warwick | Apologies | Yes | Yes |
| Tommy Bowler | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Name | 22 May 2023 | 17 July 2023 | 4 December 2023 | 11 March 2024 |
| Cllr Roger Phillips (Chair) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Yvonne Johnson | Yes | Yes | Yes | - (stepped down as Scheme Employer Representative, attended meeting as Investment Committee Chair) |
| Cllr Peter Mason | - | - | - | Yes |
| Cllr John Fuller | Apologies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Andrew Thornton | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Christopher Weaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr John Beesley | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Emelda Nicholroy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jon Richards | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Tansley | Apologies | Yes | Apologies | Apologies |
| John Neal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| George Georgiou | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Garry Warwick | Apologies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bridie McCreesh | Yes | Yes | - | - |
| Tommy Bowler | - | - | Yes | Yes |
| Name | 6 June 2022 | 10 October 2022 | 5 December 2022 | 20 February 2023 |
| Cllr Roger Phillips (Chair) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Yvonne Johnson | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr John Fuller | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Andrew Thornton | Yes | Apologies | Apologies | Yes |
| Cllr Christopher Weaver | - | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Cllr John Beesley | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Emelda Nicholroy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jon Richards | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Tansley | Apologies | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| John Neal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| George Georgiou | Yes | Apologies | Apologies | Yes |
| Garry Warwick | Apologies | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Bridie McCreesh | Yes | Apologies | Apologies | Yes |
| Name | 10 May 2021 | 1 July 2021 | 27 September 2021 | 13 December 2021 | 7 March 2022 |
| Cllr Roger Phillips (Chair) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apologies |
| Cllr Yvonne Johnson | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr John Fuller | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Andrew Thornton | Apologies | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apologies |
| Cllr John Beesley | Yes | Apologies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Clive Lloyd | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Yes | Apologies |
| Emelda Nicholroy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jon Richards | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Tansley | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Apologies | Apologies |
| John Neal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| George Georgiou | Yes | Apologies | Apologies | Yes | Apologies |
| Garry Warwick | Yes | Apologies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bridie McCreesh | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Name | 5 May 2020 | 25 August 2020 | 2 November 2020 | 8 February 2021 |
| Cllr Roger Phillips (Chair) | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Cllr Yvonne Johnson | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apologies |
| Cllr John Fuller | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Andrew Thornton | - | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr John Beesley | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Ian Brookfield | - | - | - | Yes |
| Cllr Clive Lloyd | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Emelda Nicholroy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jon Richards | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Tansley | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| John Neal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| George Georgiou | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Garry Warwick | Apologies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dick Banks | Apologies | Yes | Yes | Apologies |
| Name | 8 April 2019 | 8 July 2019 | 6 November 2019 | 3 February 2020 |
| Cllr Roger Phillips (Chair) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Yvonne Johnson | - | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr John Fuller | Yes | Apologies | Yes | Apologies |
| Cllr Denise Le Gal | Yes | Yes | * | - |
| Cllr John Beesley | - | - | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Ian Brookfield | Yes | Apologies | Apologies | Apologies |
| Cllr Clive Lloyd | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Emelda Nicholroy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jon Richards | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Tansley | Apologies | Apologies | Yes | Yes |
| John Neal | - | - | Yes | Yes |
| George Georgiou | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Garry Warwick | Apologies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dick Banks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Name | 27 June 2018 | 10 October 2018 | 16 January 2019 |
| Cllr Roger Phillips (Chair) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Yvonne Johnson | - | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr John Fuller | Apologies | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Denise Le Gal | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Clive Lloyd | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Ian Brookfield | - | Yes | - |
| Emelda Nicholroy | Yes | Yes | Apologies |
| Jon Richards | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Tansley | Apologies | Apologies | Apologies |
| Jim Kennedy | - | Apologies | - |
| George Georgiou | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Garry Warwick | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dick Banks | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Name | 26 June 2017 | 16 November 2017 | 26 February 2018 |
| Cllr Roger Phillips (Chair) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Kieran Quinn | Yes | Yes | - |
| Cllr John Fuller | Apologies | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Denise Le Gal | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Michael Adam | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Emelda Nicholroy(/Helen Fairfoul) | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Jon Richards | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Tansley | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Rehana Azam | Apologies | * | - |
| Jim Kennedy | n/a | Apologies | Apologies |
| George Georgiou | n/a | Yes | Yes |
| Garry Warwick | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fiona Farmer | Yes | ** | - |
| Dick Banks | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Name | 16 May 2016 | 1 Aug 2016 | 6 Dec 2016 | 6 Mar 2017 |
| Cllr Roger Phillips (Chair) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Kieran Quinn | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Cllr John Fuller | n/a | Apologies | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Mary Barnett | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Denise Le Gal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Clive Lloyd | n/a | Apologies | Apologies | |
| Cllr Michael Adam | Yes | Apologies | Apologies | Yes |
| Emelda Nicholroy | Yes | Apologies | Yes | Yes |
| Jon Richards | Yes | Apologies | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Tansley | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Apologies |
| Brian Strutton | Yes | * | * | * |
| Rehana Azam | n/a | Apologies | Apologies | Yes |
| Garry Warwick | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fiona Farmer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dick Banks | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Name | 1 June 2015 | 13 July 2015 | 21 Sep 2015 | 25 Jan 2016 |
| Joanne Segars (Chair) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Roger Phillips | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Kieran Quinn | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cllr Ian Bond | Apologies | Apologies | * | * |
| Cllr Mary Barnett | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Cllr Denise Le Gal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apologies |
| Cllr Michael Adam | n/a | n/a | Yes | Yes |
| Emelda Nicholroy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jon Richards | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Tansley | Apologies | Apologies | - | Yes |
| Brian Strutton | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Garry Warwick | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fiona Farmer | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
| Dick Banks | Yes | Yes | Apologies | Yes |
