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 62, 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.
Sarah Brown OBE		Sarah Brown is a reporting member of the Competition Commission, and a non-executive director of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme Ltd, the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office, the South West Kent Primary Care Trust and Look Ahead Housing and Care Ltd. She is also a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants' panel of Regulatory and Disciplinary Committee members and of the Bar Standards Board. Until 1996, she was a Senior Civil Servant in the Department of Trade and Industry with responsibility for company law and audit requirements.
Norval Bryson		Dr Norval Bryson, a graduate of St Andrews, Oxford and The Open Universities, is an actuary who worked for The Scottish Provident Institution from 1974 until 2001, latterly as Deputy Group Chief Executive and Group Finance Director. He was Honorary Secretary of The Faculty of Actuaries from 1999 until 2001 and a member of the Disciplinary Board of the actuarial profession from 2004 until 2007. Currently he is a non-executive director of Scottish Widows Group plc, chairing their audit committee, and a governor of St Columba's Hospice in Edinburgh. He is a trustee of the Church of Scotland Investors Trust and a lay member of the Court of St Andrews University, also chairing that University's audit committee.
Chris Lainé		Chris Lainé was elected to the Council of the ICAEW and served from 1990 to 2000. He was President of the ICAEW from 1997 to 1998. He was then appointed Director and later Chairman of Allied Textile Companies plc during the period 1998 to 2000. From 1983 to date he has served on the Committee of the Hampshire County Cricket Club, being appointed Treasurer from 1985 to 1996. From 1985 to 2005 he was a Governor of Canford School.
Elizabeth Llewellyn Smith CB		Elizabeth Llewellyn Smith CB worked from 1956 to 1990 in the Department of Trade and Industry and related Departments, including stints in the Cabinet Office and as Deputy Director General in the Office of Fair Trading. Much of her work focused on the promotion of competiton, the protection of consumers and on company law. From 1990 to 2001 she was Principal of St Hilda's College in the University of Oxford. Currently retired from full-time employment, she has been a member of the Governing Body of Rugby School and is a non-executive Director of the Consumers' Association.
Stuart McKee FCCA		Stuart McKee is a Corporate Finance Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, specialising in advising public and private companies on acquisitions, disposals, fund raising and corporate strategy. Prior to joining PwC he worked with Coats Viyella plc, the multi-national textile business. Married with 3 children, his interests include all forms of sport (playing or watching), music and travelling.
James Miller		James Miller is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. He was educated in Glasgow and then trained for Chartered Accountancy with Thomson McLintock in Glasgow, qualifying in 1965. He became a partner in that firm in 1974 and was Head of the Glasgow office Audit and Accounting Practice from 1980 to 1992 when he became Head of the Scottish region Audit and Accounting Practice of KPMG. He was a member of a number of UK committees of KPMG including those responsible for the UK Audit and Accounting Practice, technical matters and risk management. He retired from the partnership in 1999 but remained on a part time consultancy basis until September 2000.
Laurence Shurman		Laurence Shurman is a solicitor who has worked in firms in Newcastle and London. After starting his own practice in London, he amalgamated with Kingsley Napley of which he was Managing Partner from 1975 to 1989. He served as the Banking Ombudsman from 1989 to 1996. He has been a legal member of a Mental Health Review Tribunal, President of the City of Westminster Law Society, Chairman of the British and Irish Ombudsman Association, Chairman of the Portman Group (drinks industry) Independent Complaints Panel and Deputy Chairman of ACCA's Disciplinary Committee. He is a member of the Council of JUSTICE, Vice-Chairman of the Governors of Channing School, Vice-Chairman of Care & Repair England and a Trustee (formerly the President) of the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution.
David Thomas		David Thomas is Corporate Director Principal Ombudsman of the Financial Ombudsman Service, which covers 22,000 financial firms and deals with 100,000 cases a year. He is responsible for legislation and rules, relations with government and regulators, and cases with wider implications. He previously headed the Service's work on banking, mortgages, pensions and split-capital investment trusts. He qualified as a lawyer - being admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1969, and in Ireland in 1991. Until 1997 he was in private practice in Liverpool and London. He is a past President of Liverpool Law Society and was a Council member of The Law Society.