Board of Trustees

FairPensions’ Board of Trustees includes a cross-section of people with expertise and experience in the fields of pension law, investment management, labour rights, environmental activism and socially responsible investment.

Jeremy Nicholls, Chair of Trustees

Jeremy Nicholls is Chief Executive of SROI UK, an organisation which promotes the measurement and analysis of social return on investment. His work focuses on enabling organisations in the public, private and third sectors to better understand and manage the social value they create.

Jeremy is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation (nef) and co-founder of the Beta Model Ltd, a business providing data on trends and dynamics in business size in the UK.  He lectures on Social Value at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Sam Clarke

Sam worked for many years at Oxfam, ending as Fundraising Director before taking up the leadership of Oxfordshire Mind and later the World University Service. He has been on the board of the Refugee Council and Friends of the Earth (as chairman).

Sam is currently chair of the New Economics Foundation, Friends of the Earth in Ireland, a founder and chair of Stop Climate Chaos, a trustee of Employment for the Disabled and a director of the Oxford-based disability support organisation Able Types Ltd.

Roger Jeary

Roger Jeary is Head of Research at UNITE, the UK's largest private sector union. Roger brings a deep understanding of private industry and commerce built up through 25 years as a negotiating official of the union and 6 years as its head of research. Roger spent 14 years focused on the finance sector. Over the years Roger has taken a keen interest in pensions, not least during a period in which he acted as a Trustee for the union's own scheme. Roger leads the union's work on Capital Stewardship.

Jenine Langrish

Jenine worked for HSBC's asset management division for nearly 24 years, most recently as a senior member of the charities team, before leaving in October 2008 to devote more time to charity sector work. Prior to joining the charities team, she spent around 16 years as a fund manager. Jenine is also a director of Town & Country Housing Group, a trustee of Excellent Development and of Breast Cancer UK, a member of the Finance and Audit committee of Christian Aid, and of the Finance Committee of RNID. She has a degree in economics and is passionate about environmental, conservation and development issues.

Jennifer Morgan

As Sustainable Business Manager for Global Finance at WWF, Jen is responsible for developing WWF's programme of work to engage the finance sector for transformational change. For the past 10 years, she has held roles in the commercial world both in the UK and in the US. Jen is also a Steering Committee Member of BankTrack - a coalition of NGOs engaging with the global banking sector.

Lenka Setkova

Lenka is Director of the Democracy and Civil Society Programme at the Carnegie UK Trust where she is focused on a Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. For the first seven years of her career, Lenka worked in Central and Eastern Europe with the Overseas Development Agency/Foreign and Commonwealth Office and with the C.S. Mott Foundation. Since moving back to the UK in 2002, Lenka has worked with the Tudor Trust and with New Philanthropy Capital.

Adrian Cruden

Adrian Cruden is currently Joint Head of Human Resources with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. He has worked in HR for 25 years, originally in the mutual building society sector and then in the third sector, including roles in social housing in Bradford and with the Scope disability charity.

Adrian has also been involved in a range of campaigning work in sustainable overseas development, international trade justice, disability rights and community environmental initiatives. He has been previously an education officer for the former NALGO union, through which he gained his initial personnel qualifications. He is currently a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and holds a Masters in Industrial Relations & Employment Law from Keele University.

Our Board recently undertook an audit to identify the range of skills and expertise we need. As vacancies become available, we look for trustees to complement the existing strengths on our Board.

FairPensions' trustees complete a declaration of director's interests and the chair of the board, Jeremy Nicholls, maintains a register of these. This is intended to be a full declaration of all roles and possessions for trustees and their immediate family which might be thought to have any effect on carrying out the role of trustee of FairPensions. It is the duty of all FairPensions' directors to declare any conflicts of interest.

Patrons

Paul Watchman

Paul Watchman is Chief Executive of QWC, a business consultancy. Prior to setting up QWC Paul practised environmental and land development law for over 30 years. He was formerly a partner with Brodies and Head of its Environmental and Planning practice, a partner with Freshfields Bruckhaus and Deringer in its Environmental Planning and Regulation group and global head of the environmental practice and climate change group of Dewey & LeBoeuf.

Paul is the principal author of the UNEP FI report on the integration of Environment Social and Governance issues into pension fund investment decision-making. This report provided the legal underpinning of the UN Principles of Responsible Investment which has re-shaped investment market practices and policies. He was then a principal contributor to the 2009 follow up publication from UNEPFI entitled, Fiduciary Responsibility: Legal and Practical Aspects of Integrating Environmental, Social and Governance Issues into Institutional Investment.

Paul has taught at a number of universities, including the University of Aberdeen where he was a Visiting Professor and Fellow at its Centre for Environmental Law, the University of Dundee and Edinburgh University. He assists Roger McCormick at the LSE currently by lecturing on the Equator Principles on the Legal Risks and Financial Markets LL.M course.

Paul is a director, member of or adviser to a number of public and charitable bodies including the United Nations Environmental Panel Financial Institutions, The Prince of Wales's Trust, London Climate Change Panel, European Commission, and Fair Pensions.