We are extremely pleased to have a highly expert Advisory Panel to guide the second phase of this project. The Panel bring a wealth of experience to the project, in diverse spheres from consumer protection to pension fund management, as well as academic and legal expertise.

Baroness Jeannie Drake was a member of the Pensions Commission (2002-6) which produced the Turner Report. The Report's recommendations set the direction of UK pensions policy and began the process which led to auto-enrolment. Jeannie served as Acting Chair of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority and Deputy Chair of the National Employment Savings Trust. She stood down from this role in 2010 following her appointment as a Labour peer. Jeannie is a pension fund trustee, a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and a member of the NAPF's Pensions Quality Mark Board.

Brian Hill is a former partner at Watson Wyatt, where he was in charge of the firm's European investment consulting business and founded the firm's global custody consulting business. In 2005 he joined fund management consultancy Investit as a specialist. Brian brings to the panel considerable experience of the world of investment consultancy, a neglected but increasingly crucial component of the fiduciary investment chain.

Rob Lake is Director of Strategic Development at UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), where he is responsible for global investor networks and signatory outreach. Rob has more than ten years' responsible investment experience, having previously worked at Netherlands-based investment managers APG Asset Management as Head of Sustainability and Governance, and at Hendersons Global Investors as Head of Corporate Engagement.

Mick McAteer is Founder and Director of the Financial Inclusion Centre, and a non-executive board member of the Financial Services Authority. He chairs the European Commission's Financial Services Users Group and also sits on various consultative panels at European level. Mick has over 20 years' experience in financial services, having previously worked as Principle Policy Advisor for Which? (formerly the Consumers' Association), the largest consumer organisation in Europe.

Howard Pearce is Head of Environmental Finance and Pension Fund Management at the Environment Agency. He is a well-respected figure within the industry and a longstanding advocate for a broad understanding of fiduciary duty which takes full account of the implications of sustainability issues such as climate change.

David Pitt-Watson is Chair of Hermes Focus Asset Management and has a wealth of experience of successful shareholder engagement as well as industry initiatives on responsible investment. He is also co-author of ‘The New Capitalists: How citizen investors are re-shaping the corporate agenda'. He has served as a trustee of two pension funds, and has spoken and published widely on corporate governance and other business and economic issues.

Charles Scanlan is the former head of the pensions group at City law firm Simmons & Simmons and was a practising pensions lawyer for over twenty-five years. He has been engaged in the public debate over socially responsible investment by pension schemes for well over ten years. Following his retirement, he acted as contributing editor of Socially Responsible Investment: A Guide for Pension Schemes and Charities (Key Haven Publications, 2005) and wrote the sections relating to pensions law. He has collaborated with FairPensions on a number of projects.

Paul Watchman is a former partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and at Dewey & LeBoeuf. He is the principle author of the landmark 'Freshfields Report' on the integration of environmental, social and governance issues into pension fund investment decision-making, commissioned by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative in 2005. The report provided the legal underpinning for the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. Paul has published and lectured widely on investment and fiduciary obligation, and has taught at a number of universities.

Dr Paul Woolley was first an academic economist and then a successful financier and founder of GMO Europe. In 2006, he retired and founded three Centres for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality, including one at LSE. He is a much-respected intellectual whose recent work includes analysis of agency problems in capital markets and how they might be overcome by asset owners and policymakers.