Profiles of the Board

Chairman
Timothy Walker		Timothy Walker began his career as an academic scientist, teaching and doing research on the borders of chemistry and physics. Following a short spell with the GLC, he joined the Department of Trade and Industry and worked on telecommunications liberalisation, aid to industry and managed IT R&D programmes. He was responsible for civil nuclear issues at the Department of Energy and was the UK Governor of the IAEA from 1989-95 and chairman of the EBRD Nuclear Safety Account from 1993-5. He moved to be head of immigration in the Home Office in 1995 and was Deputy Chairman of HM Customs and Excise from 1998-2000, when he became Director General of the Health and Safety Executive, retiring in 2005. He is the Third Church Estates Commissioner, a non executive director of the London Strategic Health Authority, a Trustee of the Prostate Cancer Charity and the De Morgan Foundation, and a member of the Scientific Council of the International Risk Governance Council. He is 63, married with three daughters, and lives in Balham.

Members
Graham Aslet		Graham Aslet is a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He joined Friends Provident Life Office in 1969 and became the company's Appointed Actuary in 1987 and an Executive Director in 1988. He retired from Friends Provident in 2004. Since 2004, Graham has built up a portfolio of non-executive appointments. He is a member of Friends Provident's With Profit Committee and a non-executive director of three other insurance companies. He is also Chairman of the Leith Hill Musical Festival. He has served two terms as a member of the Council of the Institute of Actuaries and has chaired its Finance and Professional Affairs Boards. He was a member of his profession's Disciplinary Board from 2004 until his appointment to the AADB in 2008.
Jeremy Barnett		Jeremy Barnett is a practicing barrister, head of regulatory breach at St Pauls Chambers Leeds and a member of 2 Bedford Row London, with experience of serious fraud and disciplinary cases. He sits as a Recorder in crime and civil cases on the North Eastern Circuit. Jeremy is an elected member of the Bar Council and vice chair of the IT panel (chair 2003 to 2005). He is an expert on virtual hearings, and a Visiting Professor of Law Informatics at Leeds University.
Mark Eames		Mark Eames joined BP in 1977 having read engineering at University College London. He held technology, commercial and business leadership posts in Exploration, Gas and Petrochemicals located in the UK and Africa before returning to London in 1994 to become Head of Assurance for the Gas, Power and Renewables business. He became Director of Audit working to improve internal control, audit and risk management across a number of BP’s businesses and functions in 2004. Since retiring from BP at the beginning of 2009 he has advised companies in the oil, gas and engineering sectors in the areas of governance, risk, assurance and audit to. He is married with two daughters.
James Gemmell		James Gemmell is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. He was a partner in and latterly Chairman of Horwath Clark Whitehill until 2003. He specialised in auditing and also in forensic, litigation, regulatory and disciplinary matters. Thereafter until 2007 he was European Chairman and Regional Director of Horwath International. He is now a self employed consultant to a number of businesses and organizations in the UK and overseas and Hon.Treasurer of The School of Pharmacy, University of London as well as Chairman of two Charities in Surrey. He served 6 years on the Council of the Scottish Institute. He chaired a number of professional committees and working parties including those into Guidance on Reliance on Other Auditors, Self Regulation, Auditor's Liability, and a Review of the former Auditing Practices Committee.
Mike Green		Mike Green is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a graduate of the London School of Economics. He qualified with what is now KPMG and spent 11 years with the audit practice before a 20 year career in the Broadcast Media industry. He held senior finance roles at TVS Television Limited and Carlton Communications plc and was involved in the Carlton/Granada merger which formed ITV plc. Following the merger, Mike moved to ITV and ultimately held the role of Deputy Group Finance Director. He now acts as a consultant and is also currently the Independent Member on the Audit Committee of the Metropolitan Housing Partnership.
Jan Kamieniecki		Jan Kamieniecki FIA was formerly a partner at Bacon & Woodrow and Deloitte. He studied Mathematics at Magdalene College Cambridge. He joined Bacon & Woodrow as an actuarial student and qualified as an FIA in 1988. Jan specialised in life assurance, and played a major role in developing B&W’s European operations, in particular establishing a Paris office in 1991 and building up a Central European practice. He joined Deloitte as part of the B&W demerger in 2001 where his responsibilities included leading the UK insurance actuarial practice and coordinating the global firm’s insurance activities in Europe. He is also acting as a special adviser to Microensure – the leading microfinance insurance provider.
James Kellock		James Kellock qualified as a barrister in 1979 and following a period in private practice joined the Government Legal Service in 1984. Over his career he specialised in the investigation and prosecution of complex fraud cases working in the Customs & Excise Solicitor?s office, the Serious Fraud Office, the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers and the Treasury Solicitor. His last position in the civil service, from which he retired in 2008, was as Deputy Director of the Serious Fraud Office. As well as being a member of the AADB he also practices as a mediator.
Paul Smith		Paul Smith joined the Ford Motor Company in 1978 as a graduate trainee, and over the next 28 years carried out a variety of finance jobs with Ford in the UK and Germany, the most recent appointment being as Finance Director in the UK. Paul took early retirement in 2006, and since has performed a number of non-executive roles, on the boards of West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust, Defence Estates (part of the Ministry of Defence), Vehicle, Operator and Services Agency (a trading fund of the Department for Transport) and William Sutton Housing Association. He also is a member the audit committee of several public sector bodies.
Philip Taylor		Philip Taylor is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He retired as a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2009 after 39 years in the auditing profession and 25 years as a partner. He specialised in the audit of large financial services institutions and investigations on behalf of clients, the police and regulators. In the latter part of his career he was the Global Leader of PwC’s quality review programme, responsible for monitoring the quality of the audit work performed throughout the PwC Network. He was the Senior Partner of the PwC Channel Islands Firm for 16 years. He is now a Commissioner with the Jersey Financial Services Commission and a member of a number of boards.
Stephen Walzer		Stephen Walzer practised as a solicitor in house in the chemicals, oil and tobacco industries for some thirty five years. He specialised in international legal and economic issues and more particularly in EU law and practice. His interest was (and is) in regulation-not least competition law and policy and issues of corporate social responsibility. He now serves as a board member of the Solicitors Regulation Authority(appointed 2006)and as a member of the Competition Commission (appointed 2001). Until June 2009 he was a public interest member of the Audit Registration Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is founder Chairman of the UK Competition Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce and Rapporteur to the parent Committee in Paris. A past Director of the British Institute for International and Comparative law he has also been a member of the Tax Disciplinary Board. He is an accredited mediator.