Executive Committee

Role of the Executive Committee

The Executive Committee manages the day to day operations of the FRC, including resources, policies and programmes.

Executive Committee Members

  • Richard Moriarty

    Richard Moriarty

    CEO

    Appointed 2 October 2023

    Richard has over 25 years of board level experience across a range of regulated sectors. Prior to joining the FRC, he was CEO of the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority and before that the CEO of the Legal Services Board, which oversees the regulation of the legal professions. Earlier in his career he held senior roles in the regulation of social housing, communications and energy. He has also held roles in the private sector such as being a director with a water company and as a partner for a consultancy. In a non-executive capacity, he was deputy Chair of the Social Housing Regulator, responsible for the governance and financial viability of social landlords. Outside the FRC, Richard is Chair of a Housing Association.

  • Sarah Rapson

    Sarah Rapson

    Executive Director, Supervision

    Sarah Rapson joined the FRC in 2021. Previously, she had been a Board Member at the UK Home Office, the first Director-General of UK Visas and Immigration, Registrar-General for England and Wales and Chief Executive of the Identity and Passport Service (now HM Passport Office). From 2016 to 2021 she was Director of Authorisations at the Financial Conduct Authority. Her early career was in retail financial services at American Express, Barclays and Woolwich.

    Until 2024, she was senior Non-Executive Director of the North Middlesex Hospital Trust, chair of its Finance and Performance Committee and is currently Non-Executive Director of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of its Research, Innovation and Strategic Change committee.

    Sarah holds a MBA from London Business School.

  • Elizabeth Barrett

    Elizabeth Barrett

    Executive Counsel and Executive Director, Enforcement

    Elizabeth Barrett became FRC Executive Counsel and Director of Enforcement on 1 August 2018. She is responsible for leading the FRC’s Enforcement Division and for decisions in relation to investigations and enforcement involving auditors, accountants and actuaries. Following a period as Vice Chair, in April 2022 Elizabeth became the Chair of the Enforcement Section of the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators.

    Elizabeth spent 30 years at Slaughter and May, including 27 years as a partner handling a broad range of complex and high-profile proceedings and contentious regulatory matters in the corporate and financing sectors. She was the Head of the firm’s Dispute Resolution Department between 2004 and 2008 and advised HM Treasury on a number of high-profile proceedings throughout the financial crisis and after, including the interventions in Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley, as well as the administration of the Icelandic banks.

  • Mark Babington

    Mark Babington

    Executive Director, Regulatory Standards

    Mark Babington is the Executive Director of Regulatory Standards at the Financial Reporting Council. He leads the division responsible for the FRC technical and public policy work covering audit, corporate reporting, corporate governance and stewardship, actuarial and digital reporting and taxonomies. Prior to joining ExCo, Mark led the FRC’s UK Audit Policy programme, measures to support greater competition in the UK audit market and work to support the reform of international standard setting for auditors, by global regulatory authorities. Before he joined the FRC, Mark had a twenty-year career in audit and was a Director at the UK National Audit Office.

    Mark has previous experience as a Board Member and Audit and Rick Committee Chair. He is also a member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants, which sets the global Code of Ethics for the accountancy profession, and chairs IESBA’s Sustainability Task Force.

  • Miranda Craig

    Miranda Craig

    Director of Strategy & Change

    Miranda joined the FRC in March 2020 as Director of Strategy & Change, initially with responsibility for delivering the transformation programme, and now the FRC’s wider change agenda including as SRO for its locations programme. The Strategy & Change directorate incorporates the FRC’s PMO and Market Intelligence & Insights teams, supplying the FRC’s strategic enabling functions across project management, economic and data analysis, competition expertise and research capabilities. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute with 17 years’ experience across professional services, large private and listed companies, having qualified whilst at Ernst & Young. She has also held senior secretariat roles at Sage Group plc, ARM, R&Q and EDF Energy. Miranda spent 2019 seconded to BEIS leading on the Independent Review into the Quality and Effectiveness of Audit, supporting Sir Donald Brydon’s comprehensive review of audit; its purpose, user needs and future direction.

  • Kate O'Neill

    Kate O'Neill

    Director of Stakeholder Engagement & Corporate Affairs

    Kate joined the FRC as the Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs in May 2020.

    Previously she was the Head of Corporate Development at Jupiter Asset Management where she was responsible for corporate strategy, investor relations and communications. Kate was the Managing Director of Investor Relations at Lloyds Banking Group during the financial crisis before becoming a Partner at Brunswick and then at Maitland advising global clients on capital markets and communications issues.

    After qualifying as a lawyer, Kate spent most of her career in the financial services sector in the UK, Europe and Australasia in senior leadership roles in distribution and alternative assets at AMP Asset Management, Henderson Global Investors and RBS Asset Management.

  • Vinita Hill

    Vinita Hill

    Chief Operating Officer

    Vinita joined the FRC in January 2025 as Chief Operating Officer, leading the Corporate Services Division. As a member of the Executive Committee, she oversees Finance, Procurement, Human Resources, Information Systems, and Facilities and Estates Management.

    Previously, Vinita served as Director of Corporate Operations at the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), where she led a team of 40 people and was the first Director to be based regionally. She managed the organisation's £41m budget while developing ORR's first Environmental Strategy and refreshed Diversity and Inclusion Strategy in 2024.

    With over 20 years of public sector leadership experience, including significant time at Highways England as Performance and Change Director and Designated Funds Director, Vinita has expertise in strategic leadership and organisational transformation.

    She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Leadership & Management and an LLB Honours Law Degree. Vinita is based in the FRC's Birmingham office.

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