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FRC Advisory Panel

The Advisory Panel Members are subject matter specialists in the following areas:

  • Actuarial work
  • Audit
  • Audit committee experience
  • Accountancy
  • Competition policy
  • Culture
  • ESG and narrative reporting
  • Preparation of financial statements (listed / corporate and local authority / public benefit entities)
  • Senior financial management (CFOs / FDs)
  • Forensic accountancy
  • Information security
  • Insolvency practice
  • Institutional investment
  • Internal audit
  • Relevant areas of law
  • Public Policy / Government / Public Interest
  • Regulation
  • Risk management
  • Technical accountancy
  • Academia

Members of the Advisory Panel will be called on to provide expert advice across the breadth of the FRC’s activities. This could include:

  • Input to the development and maintenance of regulatory standards, codes and guidance
  • Providing expert advice in relation to the FRC’s work on corporate reporting, audit firm supervision, audit market supervision, audit quality review and oversight of professional bodies
  • Providing advice to the Enforcement Division on case matters
  • Providing advice on regulation and public interest
  • Providing advice on the emerging issues affecting the regulatory landscape

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Panel Members

Anthony Appleton

Member

Anthony is a partner in BDO’s Technical Standards Group, leading their team of corporate reporting technical specialists supporting the audit practice in driving the quality of financial reporting. He is an expert in IFRS, UK GAAP and UK narrative and corporate governance reporting covering both publicly traded and private companies.

Anthony is a member of BDO’s global IFRS policy committee and is the chair of its global sustainability reporting committee.

Anthony was previously the Director of Accounting and Reporting Policy at the FRC, leading its work on developing UK Financial Reporting Standards and narrative reporting guidance. He represented the FRC at international standard setting fora, including the Accounting Standards Advisory Forum of the IASB. He was also a member of EFRAG’s Technical Expert Group throughout his time at the FRC.

Before joining the FRC in an executive capacity he was a member of the FRC’s Accounting Council.

Larissa Connor

Member

Larissa is a technical director within EY’s Financial Reporting Group, which she joined in 1999. She provides advice and support to the audit practice on UK GAAP and IFRS, specialising in UK company law relevant to corporate reporting and business combinations/consolidations, and is a contributing author and reviewer of EY’s International GAAP and UK GAAP publications. Larissa chairs EY Global’s First-time adoption technical expert group, and is a member of EY Global’s Business Combination Working Group and of EY Global’s IFRS for SMEs technical expert group. She is also a member of ICAEW’s Financial Reporting Committee, Non-financial Reporting Committee and Company Law Panel.

Peter Andrews

Member

Peter Andrews is a Senior Adviser at Oxera Consulting LLP, where he chairs the Regulation and Market Design Centre of Excellence. He is also an assessor for the UK’s Research Excellence Framework 2021 and an associate at the LSE’s Systemic Risk Centre and at the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy. Until 2017 he was Chief Economist at the Financial Conduct Authority, where he worked extensively on competition and regulatory economics and participated in international committees operated by the IOSCO, the BIS and the FSB.

His first role in financial regulation was as Assistant Director – Capital Standards at the Securities and Investments Board. His previous roles included Senior Manager in the Financial Institutions Group at a Big Four accounting firm and Special Adviser at a foreign-owned British bank. He has degrees from Oxford and London Universities, and is a member of the ICAEW and of the CISI.

Mei Ashelford

Member

Mei has close to 20 years of technical corporate reporting experience including six years as a standard setter at the Financial Reporting Council, focusing on UK accounting standards and narrative reporting. In her current role as Director of reporting intelligence at Gather, a London-based strategic corporate communications agency, she is the lead reporting consultant advising FTSE 350, AIM and large private companies on corporate governance, reporting and sustainability regulation and best practice. As subject matter expert she also leads on Gather’s thought-leadership activities, covering internal research and white papers, and is frequently invited to contribute to external publications and speaking events.

Alice Bordini-Staden

Member

Alice Bordini Staden focused the first part of her career in investment management as Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research of innovative multi-manager, multi-strategy portfolios at Atlas Capital Ltd and Carlton Capital Partners Ltd. The second part was concentrated on responsible investments, ESG, stewardship, climate finance and policy. Alice is currently an Investment Committee Member for the National Trust, leading its responsible investments and stewardship activities. She’s also an advisor in shareholder engagement for the non-profit environmental law organisation ClientEarth, and an Advisory Council Member for the All-Party Parliamentary Group in Sustainable Finance at the House of Commons, UK Parliament.

Michael-John Albert

Member

Michael-John Albert is a partner at EY specialising in the delivery of audit and other services to the financial services sector. Michael-John has experience across the spectrum of financial services in the UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. His clients include listed and unlisted large UK and inbound banks, mortgage service providers, sovereign wealth funds and asset managers.

As well as audit, Michael-John’s advisory experience includes delivery of outsourced internal audit functions, regulatory reviews and assisting clients with multinational expansion plans. Michael-John is the Audit Quality leader for the UK firm, overseeing the audit quality strategy and initiatives for both financial services and the wider UK practice. He was previously head of Risk and Compliance for the UK’s financial services assurance practice.

Michael-John is a Trustee and Treasurer for Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity and Chairs the Finance, Audit, Risk and Investment subcommittee. He was previously a Trustee of the Deloitte South Africa Pension Fund and through his membership of various committees advised the South African Regulator and Government on the development of the governance and accounting frameworks for retirement funds.

Nick Bennett

Member

Nick Bennett is a public sector external audit partner in Azets and heads up the Edinburgh office. He is a member of CIPFA/LASAAC, responsible for local government financial reporting and the ICAS Public Sector Committee. His audit work covers companies, charities, central and local government bodies and NHS boards.

Richard Bray

Member

Richard is a charity finance professional who trained as a chartered accountant with KPMG. He currently leads the Finance Regulatory Team at Cancer Research UK. Richard was a member of The Committee for Accounting for Public Benefit Entities (CAPE) for eight years and then served as a member of the Charity SORP Committee for five years. He is currently a member of the Charity Committee of the Institute of Charity Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW). Richard leads The Charity Tax Group and is a well-known commentator in the charity sector on accounting and tax matters.

Martin Burke

Member

Martin is the Director of Underwriting Services for MS Amlin, an international insurer and reinsurer with responsibility for portfolio management analytics, e.g. catastrophe risk modelling, technical pricing and performance management. Martin was previously Director of Group Underwriting for MS Amlin plc and a Director and Chief Risk Officer of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Underwriting at Lloyd’s, a Lloyd’s Managing Agency, prior to the acquisition of Amlin plc by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Japan.

Martin has always worked in the Lloyd’s and London Market, having previously worked in Catlin Group’s Enterprise Risk Management team, served as Head of UK Reporting and the Catlin Syndicate’s Finance Director. Prior to the merger of Catlin and Wellington Underwriting, Martin held a number of actuarial roles at Wellington, having initially undertaken has actuarial training with Commercial Union. Martin read Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University and qualified as an actuary in 2001, he is also a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary.

Robert Carroll

Member

Robert is a Director in the corporate reporting team within National Accounting and Audit at Deloitte LLP. He is principal author of the UK statutory reporting and UK GAAP volumes of Deloitte GAAP. He has over 20 years’ experience in technical accounting roles covering UK GAAP, IFRS and areas of company law relevant to corporate reporting, capital and distributable profits. Robert is a member of the Financial Reporting Faculty Editorial Board and Company Law Panel of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Una Curtis

Member

Úna is a Chartered Accountant (FCA). She is a KPMG Principal in the Department of Professional Practice has over 30 years of experience in providing technical accounting advice under IFRS and Irish GAAP to a wide range of entities from multinationals to domestic Irish entities. She is a member of the KPMG Global Topic Team on Leases and has recently been appointed a member of the IASB’s SME Implementation Group. She worked closely with the Company Law Reform Group on the consolidation of Irish company law and with the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation on the transposition of the EU Accounting Directive into the Companies Act 2014. Úna is deputy chairperson of the Accounting Committee of Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Geraint Davies

Member

Geraint is based in Dinas Powys in South Wales. Having studies Economics and Statistics at Exeter he joined and qualified as an accountant with Deloitte Haskins and Sells. For 25 years until his retirement in 2013 he was a partner in Grant Thornton. During that time, he acted for listed, AIM and substantial private companies but was also involved with Government, local authorities and the not-for-profit sector. He acts currently as a Non-Executive Director serving on a number of audit and risk committees. He is Chair of several charities and is the lead adviser to the Aberfan charities a role he has held for more than 40 years. He was awarded his CBE in the 2013 New Year Honours List for services and charitable activities in Wales.

Bryan Foss

Member

Bryan is an independent NED with over 15 years’ experience across Public Sector, Listed, Banking, NFP and high growth technology organisations, including holding chair roles for Risk & Audit, Remuneration, Nominations, also Governance Committees. Bryan also coaches business founders and NEDs.

Bryan was previously a member of the FRC Audit & Assurance council, contributed to multiple lab projects and consultations and is now within the FRC shared advisory pool. He is also co-author of the Risk Coalition’s principles-based guidance for boards, risk committees and CROs and a Visiting Professor with Bristol Business School.

Qualifications include Executive MBA (City), Chartered Director, Fellow IoD, Chartered Engineer and Fellow CITP, Chartered Marketing Fellow (CIM and IDM), Chartered Member CISI, also ACCA Diploma in Accounting & Finance.

Michael Gallagher

Member

Michael is Director of Finance at Amaris Hospitality. Amaris Hospitality, owned by the leading global private equity firm Lone Star, is one of the UK and Ireland's leading hotel investment and hospitality management companies, currently managing over 65 hotels under 6 prestigious, international brands.

Michael is formerly the Chief Financial Officer of the Toronto and London quoted Falcon Oil & gas. Prior to this Michael worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC") in Ireland and the USA. At PwC, Michael advised both quoted and unquoted Oil & gas exploration, Manufacturing and Financial Services companies.

Michael is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland./

Deborah Gilshan

Member

Deborah Gilshan provides strategic advice on investment stewardship, sustainable finance and diversity. She has extensive experience engaging with board directors, senior leaders, regulators and investors on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Previously, Deborah was an ESG Investment Director at Aberdeen Standard Investments and Head of Sustainable Ownership at RPMI Railpen, having started her career in responsible investment at the Co-operative Insurance Society in December 2000. Deborah initially worked in corporate tax at EY and read Mathematics & English at the University of Manchester.

Deborah is a 30% Club Ambassador and was instrumental in building its UK Investor Group into a global coalition of investors with £11 trillion assets under management. Deborah is a Fellow of ICSA: The Governance Institute and chairs the Ethics & Systemic Risk Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network. In October 2011, Deborah founded The 100% Club, a multi-sector alliance dedicated to gender equality and she advises the Women Societies Alliance, which seeks to create equal opportunities in the finance industry for female graduates. Deborah has been recognised for her work on empowering the female talent pipeline and promoting gender diversity.

Simon Gleadhill

Member

Simon is Corporate Reporting and IFRS Technical Controller at Howden Joinery Group Plc. This role combines his specialisms in IFRS technical accounting and financial reporting with Annual Report production, ESG reporting, and reporting on strategy and the business model.

Simon originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC, where he worked mainly with large consumer and industrial companies in London and Oman. After moving into industry and several years of IFRS implementation and preparing listed company accounts, he developed additional specialisms in ESG reporting and Strategic reporting. He now leads the team responsible for producing several award-winning Annual Reports and Sustainability Reports.

He was a member of the Advisory Group to the FRC’s “Future of Corporate Reporting” project and is a member of the Investor Relations Society, holding their Certificate in Investor Relations.

Tom Gosling

Member

Tom Gosling is an Executive Fellow in the Department of Finance at London Business School where he contributes to the evidence-based practice of responsible business by connecting academic research, public policy, and corporate action. He works with the Centre for Corporate Governance and the Leadership Institute at LBS. Tom is also a member of the Steering Committee of The Purposeful Company think tank.

Tom has 20+ years of experience as a board advisor. Most recently he was a senior Partner at PwC where he established and led the firm’s executive pay practice, advising FTSE-100 and equivalent private and European companies on corporate governance and executive pay.

Tom has a PhD in Applied Mathematics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

Tracey Groves

Member

Tracey is a board member, trusted business adviser and transformation consultant with extensive advisory experience working with Boards and Business Leaders. Tracey’s passion is advising Leaders and providing consulting services on the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance strategic risk agenda [ESG], Ethical Leadership and Conduct, Organizational Integrity, Transformational Culture Change and Behaviours, Digital Ethics, Regulatory Risk and Compliance, and Inclusion and Belonging.

Previously at PwC, Tracey was the UK Firm’s Senior Corporate Governance Partner and delivered cross-disciplinary ESG advisory services to clients with ethical conduct, purpose and behaviours as core enablers. Tracey is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA, ICAEW) and a Certified Organizational Development Practitioner (NTL Institute) specialising in organizational change and performance. Her work centres on advising Boards and Leaders in developing measurable and evidence-based approaches to creating ethical and transparent cultures that are risk-based, human-centred and sustainable.

Tracey is a Partner at StoneTurn and CEO of Intelligent Ethics, an Advisory Board Member for Executive and Professional Education, Leeds University Business School and a Visiting Fellow at the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) Centre, University of Leeds. She is also an expert Faculty member of Leeds University Business School.

Geoffrey Green

Member

Geoffrey Green was Senior Partner of Ashurst LLP, a leading international law firm, from 1998 to 2008, following which he became Managing Partner, Asia, for Ashurst, based in Hong Kong, until his retirement and return to the UK in 2013. He has extensive experience as a corporate lawyer, particularly advising on M&A, corporate finance and private equity transactions in the UK and internationally. He is a non-executive Director of Vedanta Resources Ltd and Pharos Energy plc and of a Hong Kong managed private equity and distressed debt fund.

Geoffrey was also Chair of the Corporate Reporting Review Committee and of the Financial Reporting Review Panel of the FRC from 2015 to 2020.

Robert Griffiths

Member

Rob is the Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Chief Executive at Longhurst Group, a midlands-based Housing Association Group and Developer managing over 23,000 homes. Rob is also a member and Chair of the Housing SORP Working Party which he has chaired since 2015.

Samantha Griffiths

Member

Samantha specialises in Board development, governance and the narrative reporting landscape, with emphasis on integrated thinking and reporting. She started her career in a large international bank, transitioned to a role in Treasury for a large multinational engineering business, before spending several years working at the London Stock Exchange. This has been followed by an extensive freelance consulting and training career, working alongside boards and senior management teams at many high-profile organisations. The focus of her work has been on developing and articulating value propositions for a variety of organisations. Consulting assignments have included investor outreach programmes, perception studies, board evaluations, annual report development, key message development, best practice benchmarking and board impact training.

Samantha is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She also has an Executive MBA from Manchester Business School (Guardian Scholarship recipient) and is a member of the Institute of Directors (IOD) - contributing to the IOD’s Expert Advisory Group - Governance. In addition to running her consultancy business, Sagenius, she is currently pursuing a part-time Executive Doctorate in Business Administration at Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University – researching the tensions between governance and entrepreneurial boards of listed companies.

Kari Hale

Member

Kari is a recently retired senior Audit Partner with Deloitte, focused to serving clients in the FTSE 100.

A chartered accountant and a partner since 1997, Kari has extensive experience in audit, regulation, governance advisory and risk consulting. He is presently the senior statutory auditor for Anglo American PLC and Severn Trent PLC, having served RBS in that role between 2010 and 2014.

From 2004-2006 Kari was Director, Finance Strategy & Risk at the UK FSA, responsible for finance and risk management, strategic planning, policy impact assessment and international co-ordination. He was also Sector Leader at the FSA for Accountancy and Auditing, in which role he chaired the Audit Quality Forum working group that produced the publication “Fundamentals – Audit Purpose”.

Philippa Hardwick

Member

Philippa has a portfolio of NEDs, and as a Commercial Barrister practised (as Philippa Hamilton) until 2012 from Fountain Court Chambers, where she remains an Associate Member. She previously worked as in-house counsel in a City Law Firm. Before her legal career she worked as an economics analyst for Unilever plc.

From 2015-2018 she was Cabinet member responsible for finance and governance on Chichester District Council. She currently serves as a panellist on the Cabinet Office's Security Vetting Appeals Panel is Vice-Chair of the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation.

Philippa is a former Chair of the FRC's Case Management Committee.

Roger Harrington

Member

Roger Harrington worked for BP plc from 2006 until 2018. Initially he led the company’s Group Accounting and Reporting team and from 2009 he held the position of Chief Accounting Officer. In this latter role he represented the company in discussions on accounting and reporting issues in the UK and internationally.

Roger is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He trained and qualified whilst with Pricewaterhouse and has 20 years’ experience in audit and advisory, latterly with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he became specialised in the Energy industry.

Roger was educated at Keble college, Oxford University and holds a MA (Hons) in Engineering Science.

Fiona Hathorn

Member

Fiona is the CEO of Women on Boards UK, an Advisory Board Member to Spktral (a technology company that helps organisations simplify the gender pay gap reporting process), advisor to Peel Hunt (mid-cap stockbroker) and Chair of Hanx's Nominations Committee (FMCG start-up). She is an expert in the areas of Governance, Regulation and Talent Management who has sat on both marketing and audit & finance committees. Fiona is also a Patron of Fight for Sight (a medical research charity) and was formerly an investment director for Hill Samuel Asset Management. She has advised the board of the Thai Euro Fund and is a Judge for the Non-Executive Director Awards, sponsored by The Sunday Times. In 2020 Fiona joined King's College London's 'Global Institute for Women's Leadership' Advisory Board.

Miles Hedges

Member

Miles Hedges was educated at Bloxham School and St John’s College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and is a Court Assistant of the Chartered Accountants Livery Company and a trustee of the Chartered Accountants’ Livery Charity.
Miles initially spent 11 years as an auditor, which included significant experience of auditing universities and pension schemes as well a wide variety of industrial and financial entities. For two years he was Financial Adviser to the Universities Funding Council, sometime funder, and regulator of universities across the UK. He has been finance director/chief financial officer of three universities: the University of Nottingham, The Open University and the University of Derby. He has been a trustee of two self-administered trusts providing pension benefits for two of these universities.
Miles is a past Chairman of the British Universities Finance Directors Group and was a member, and sometime chair, of the BUFDG Financial Reporting Group from its inception in 1990 until his retirement from full-time work in 2016.  He was a member of the Financial Reporting Council’s UK GAAP Technical Advisory Group until 2020.

Charles Henderson

Member

Charles is a director of the UK Shareholders’ Association (UKSA), helping in their policy team. He is a former executive of Invesco, from where he retired at the end of May 2019, having supported Invesco's UK Equities team as Business Manager with their corporate finance and governance activities, specialising in the UK Takeover Code, primary market transactions, shareholder engagement, company reporting and auditing. He participated in the Quoted Companies Alliance working group on the 2019 edition of the QCA's Audit Committee Guide. He continues his interest in company reporting and auditing through participating in the Corporate Reporting Users' Forum and UKSA policy team activities.

Charles trained as a Chartered Accountant at Blease Lloyd & Co, before moving to Touche Ross & Co (now Deloitte) where he became a senior audit manager responsible for several financial institutions' clients, including Perpetual plc (now Invesco) and Nationwide Anglia Building Society. He then joined Invesco in 1994 and worked in several senior roles, including Head of Fund Administration and Accounting, Head of Global Investment Operations and Head of Invesco Perpetual’s Investment Management Operations.

Peter Hogarth

Member

Peter Hogarth is a partner at PwC where he leads the firm's Accounting Consulting Services team. He advises the firm and its clients across a wide range of financial reporting topics, covering both UK GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards.

Scott Jeffrey

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Scott is an Audit Partner at Johnston Carmichael LLP. Scott has over 20 years' experience of working in public practice and industry, and specialises in audit and the charity sector, within his role as Head of the Charities sector for his firm.

Scott is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAS) Charities Panel, collectively responsible for representing ICAS on matters impacting the UK charity sector in relation to public policy, law and regulation, financial reporting and external scrutiny of financial statements. Scott also presents webinars and courses on behalf of the ICAS charity panel.

Nicole Kissun

Member

Nicole Kissun is a partner at BDO LLP and is head of their Technical Standards Group, having been in the same role at the former PKF (UK) LLP prior to the merger between the two firms in 2013.  A partner for over 15 years, she originally combined a client-facing role with that of technical partner but for the past five years has concentrated on a technical role. She also sits on the firm’s Quality and Risk Management Committee. Nicole is heavily involved in the interactions with the firm’s various regulators as they relate to audit quality. Outside of the firm she has been a member of the FRC’s UK GAAP Technical Advisory Group and sits on the ICAEW Practice Committee.

Naomi L'Estrange

Member

Naomi is a Managing Director with 20-20 Trustees, where she sits on boards for a wide variety of DB, DC and hybrid pension schemes. She was previously Director of Legal and of Strategy and Policy at the Pension Fund. She trained as a pension lawyer at Herbert Smith where she advised clients including the Institute of Actuaries, and went on secondment to the Department of Work and Pensions where she was responsible for the design of the moral hazard regime in the Pensions Act 2004.

She has a law degree from Clare College Cambridge, a masters in European Law from L'Universite Libre de Bruxelles and is a graduate of the Meyler Campbell Executive Coach Programme.

Dominic Lindley

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Dominic Lindley is an independent consultant specialising in financial services, consumer protection and conduct risk issues. He is a Member of the Financial Services Consumer Panel and Director of policy for New City Agenda, a financial services thinktank founded by David Davis MP, Lord McFall and Lord Sharkey. He is the author of the report - The Pensions Dashboard: How can we make sure it works for consumers and has co-authored reports into the culture of the UK's retail banks and financial regulators. Prior to becoming an independent consultant he was leader of the financial services policy team at Which? and an economist for the UK Parliament’s Treasury Select Committee. He led Which?'s work on with-profits funds and the regulatory framework concerning the reattribution of inherited estates in the funds. He worked on the Future of Banking Commission and led work which resulted in the banning of consultancy charges and deferred member penalties in workplace pensions. He is a trustee of the Which? pension scheme and has been a member of the European Banking Authority Stakeholder Group.

Gal Maller

Member

Gal Maller is Group Board Member and MD for a global group of Life & Material Sciences companies headquartered in UK.

He has +20 years of investing, governance, and commercial stewardship for corporate and public sector in a range of global markets, spanning Wall Street to UK private equity.

Specialising in M&A, Gal has managed the full M&A life cycle for public and private companies and has advised regulators, sat on management boards, and acted as senior executive whose responsibilities includes: Corporate Governance, Stewardship, Strategy, Risk Management and Digital.

His career path has taken him through several key roles including: M&A banker, private equity professional, family office executive, securities trader, corporate advisory, public and private buyside.
Gal has placed special emphasis throughout his career to be involved and playing his part in shifting business to more sustainable businesses.  This includes fossil fuels to steam, recycle to reuse, cash to contactless payments, synthetic to natural materials and manual to digital.

Gal is an active member of Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO) and is in-coming Chairperson for 21/22, previously being Education and Finance Officer.

Gal holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Bachelor’s in International Relations from Carleton College.

Colin McCarthy-Little

Member

Colin McCarthy-Little is currently the Head of Group Audit of International Airlines Group (IAG) leading the audit strategy and delivery across the Group. IAG is the parent company of British Airways, Iberia, Vueling, Aer Lingus, LEVEL, IAG Cargo, Avios and IAG GBS. Colin is also the Chair of the Audit and Compliance Committee of the oneworld Management Company and is a member of the UK Regional Committee of the Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand.

Colin trained with KPMG Australia, where he worked in the assurance practice across a range of industries including Financial Services, Defence, Oil & Gas and Biotechnology. In 2008 he moved to KPMG London where he was a Senior Audit Manager on financial institutions including HSBC and ICICI Bank.

Colin was a member of the FRC's Audit Quality Review Committee until December 2020.

Sian Morgan

Member

Sian Morgan began her career in investment at Autonomous Research LLP, a specialist research house focussed on the Financials sector, before joining Allianz Global Investors in 2010, where she spent 8 years within Equity Research specialising in UK Financials. Sian is currently an Equity Research Analyst at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, covering European Financials.

Sian holds a First Class BA Honours in Land Economy and Economics, an MPhil in Development and the Rosemary Murray Scholarship from Cambridge University. She is also a CFA® charterholder.

Tessa Parks

Member

Tessa Park is the Technical Partner of Moore Kingston Smith LLP. She started her accountancy career in 1992 at a small accountancy practice and subsequently worked at a Big Four firm and two mid-tier firms, firstly in audit and later in a technical role. She joined Moore Kingston Smith LLP in 2007 and became Technical Partner in 2010.

She specialises in providing advice and training on the application of International and UK financial reporting standards, auditing standards and audit methodology within the firm. She has also delivered presentations for the ICAEW and the Moore network on financial reporting topics including the impact of COVID-19 on financial reporting. As well as her membership of the Advisory Panel, she is a member of the ICAEW’s Financial Reporting Committee.

David Paterson

Member

Educated in Scotland and at Oxford University, David joined international law firm Herbert Smith (now Herbert Smith Freehills) in 1986 and became a partner there in 1994. He was Head of its London Corporate Practice 2010 – 2012. He handled mergers and acquisitions and boardroom advisory and governance matters throughout his career, and acted for a number of FTSE 100 and 250 companies as well as multi-nationals and large private companies in the UK and overseas. He served on the Law Society's Company Law Committee, contributed to the leading text on the law and regulation of public takeovers in the UK and also advised and supported standard setters and guidance providers in the audit and accounting fields. He retired from legal practice at the end of 2018.

He chaired the Board of an independent school in North-east London for 11 years and is currently a Trustee of both The Fairtrade Foundation and of Christian Aid Kenya. He also sits on the audit, finance and investment committee of The R&A Group Ltd.

David was a member of the FRC's Case Management Committee until December 2020.

Sir Gareth Rhys Williams

Member

Gareth Rhys Williams has been the Government Chief Commercial Officer since March 2016 leading the Government Commercial Function, building capability through a program of accreditation and senior recruitment, while delivering improved contract delivery and savings averaging well over £2Bn a year. His tenure has coincided with the collapse of Carillion, the restructuring of a number of other key vendors, and most recently the collapse of Greensill.

Gareth is an experienced CEO, and NED, with a strong record of driving transformational change in large international organisations, having taken a number of businesses through complex restructurings or sale processes.

Before joining the Civil Service, Gareth was CEO of PHS Group, a leading provider of outsourced workplace services in the UK. Prior to which he was CEO of Charter International, the FTSE listed engineering group, until its successful sale to Colfax Corporation in 2012, CEO of Capital Safety Group Ltd, and CEO of Vitec Group plc, the listed supplier of broadcast and photographic equipment and services. Originally trained as a production engineer, he did his MBA at Insead, after which he ran business units for Rexam and BPB in the UK, Europe and the USA.

Andrew Robinson

Member

Andrew is a commercial valuer and expert witness for disputes involving valuation matters. He leads Deloitte’s specialist Valuation Group in the UK and is a member of Deloitte’s global management executive team for Valuation and Modelling with responsibility for the EMEA region. Andrew has 25 years of valuation experience of preparing and leading numerous valuation engagements in commercial situations, such as M&A and financial restructuring transactions. He also provides advice in the context of financial reporting and the fair valuation of acquired assets. He has been the named expert in over 30 contentious matters, including Investor-State and commercial arbitrations. He has appeared in court or hearings in London, New York, Paris and Hong Kong under High Court, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules. Andrew is a Counsellor and Fellow Member of Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand (“CAANZ”), an Associate and Corporate Finance Faculty Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (“ICAEW”), Member of the Securities Institute and he is registered as an Approved Person by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Andrew is a member of the government Council of CAANZ.

Bob Scott

Member

Bob Scott is Senior Partner of the actuarial firm Lane Clark & Peacock LLP (“LCP”), a position he has held since 2011. He qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1987 having completed the relevant examinations two years previously and became a partner in the firm in 1988.

Bob has held a Scheme Actuary certificate since these were introduced in April 1997 under the Pensions Act 1995. He has been actively involved in the provision of actuarial and related advice to employers and trustees in relation to pensions since joining LCP in 1982. Prior to that he worked for an actuarial consulting firm in Australia, where he commenced his actuarial studies after graduating in 1977 with a degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Melbourne.

From 1 June 2016 to 31 May 2018 Bob was the Chair of the Association of Consulting Actuaries (“ACA”) which is the representative body for some 1800 UK consulting actuaries working in over 60 firms. He had been an officer of the Association for 4 years prior to his election as Chair and, as Immediate Past Chair, he remained an officer of the Association until March 2020. As ACA Chair, he participated fully in the activities of the International Actuarial Association, attending council and committee meetings in 2016 – 2018.

Jonathan Shaw

Member

Jonathan Shaw leads Grant Thornton UK LLP’s (Grant Thornton) financial reporting technical team which provides internal support and guidance on a range of corporate reporting related matters predominantly to the firm’s commercial audit service line. Jonathan also represents Grant Thornton in discussions on corporate reporting matters hosted by Grant Thornton International Limited, the coordinating entity for the international network of more than 130 independently owned and managed professional services firms in over 140 countries.

Before re-joining Grant Thornton in early 2020, Jonathan served for four years as a director and company secretary of an AIM listed medical technology company. Prior to this, Jonathan has spent most of his career working as either Director or Senior Manager in large or mid-tier audit firms as well as being a Case Officer for the FRC’s Financial Reporting Review Panel. Jonathan is also a member of the ACCA’s Global Corporate Reporting Group and the ICAEW’s Company Law Panel.

Fiona Sheridan

Member

Fiona Sheridan is a Chartered Accountant and former Managing Partner with EY with a portfolio of Board and Committee roles including Board Trustee at The Children’s Trust, member of their Audit Committee & Remuneration Committee and Chair of the Finance, Fundraising & General Purpose Committee.

She is a Member of the Audit, Risk, Assurance and Performance Committee at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and a Member of the Audit & Scrutiny Committee of The University of Oxford.

As former Managing Partner of EY’s Risk Advisory Practice in UK & Ireland, Fiona’s client expertise focused on enterprise risk management, internal audit and internal control in FTSE 100/250 companies as well as supporting clients to understand the impact of their organisational culture on their current and desired risk appetite and attitude.

Pamela Stacey

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Pamela Stacey is the Head of Programme and Corporate Assurance, High Speed Two (HS2) Limited. In this role, she is responsible for design and delivery of the HS2 Ltd risk-based assurance strategy and framework. She provides assurance of non-financial reporting and internal controls to HS2 Ltd’s Executive and the Audit & Risk Assurance Committee. She is the owner of the Integrated Assurance and Approvals Plan for the programme and leads major assurance activities such as Baseline reviews to support programme milestones and decision points.

Prior to joining HS2 Ltd, Pamela spent 25 years in various compliance, risk and assurance roles for a major Pharmaceutical company. This included five years as an account director in their global internal audit function, covering R&D, manufacturing, and commercial (sales) operations. Then, as Head of Assurance, she was responsible for developing the global assurance framework for the company’s principal risks and transforming the Audit & Risk Committee governance and reporting process. She also implemented an enterprise risk management framework, supported by the SAP GRC module, in one of the company’s major business units.

Roger Steare

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Roger Steare has been a Senior Advisor on People & Culture, Leadership & Learning, Organisational Development, Ethics and Diversity & Inclusion for over 20 years. Over this period he has developed a robust, engaging professional practice based on a deep understanding of what motivates and inspires us to do great work. Drawing on peer-reviewed research in anthropology, moral philosophy, psychology, sociology and systems theory, he has developed an approach that can transform people, teams and organisations within just a few weeks.

His clients have included a number of Fortune 500 companies, the NHS, the military, the police as well as regulators and professional bodies.

He has conducted extensive empirical research on both personal and professional integrity, with his MoralDNA® Profile cited in papers published by the Chartered Management Institute, the Chartered Insurance Institute, the FCA and Oliver Wyman.

He writes for the Financial Times and his work has been profiled in The Times, The Wall Street Journal, Les Echos and The Guardian. His book ethicability has been licensed as an e-book to over 600,000 employees across the firms he advises.

Roger is an accredited post-graduate educator at Duke Corporate Education and the FT’s Headspring Executive Development.

Mark Smith

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Mark Smith has nearly 30 years’ financial reporting experience working for multi-national listed companies in a number of different industries. Since 2017, he has been Chief Accounting Officer of Dialog Semiconductor Plc, a UK-based technology company that is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Mark has a keen interest in the development of financial reporting. From 2014 to 2020, he was a member of the FRC’s Corporate Reporting Council and was for many years Vice-Chairman of the Financial Reporting Committee of the 100 Group of Finance Directors and a member of the ICAEW’s Financial Reporting Committee. He was also a founder member of the IASB’s Global Preparers’ Forum.

Mark qualified as chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand and has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.

Pamela Taylor

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Pamela Taylor is an Associate Partner in KPMG’s Department of Professional Practice responsible for accounting and reporting. She has many years’ experience of audit and providing technical advice to audit teams in areas such as international financial reporting standards and UK GAAP. Pamela was a member of the FRC’s UK GAAP Technical Advisory Group prior to the dissolution of that advisory group at the end of 2020.

David Thomas

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David Thomas is a panel member at the Competition and Markets Authority, a member of competition, enforcement and settlement decision committees at the Payment Systems Regulator, a member of the competition decision committee at the Financial Conduct Authority and a member of the consumer panel at the Civil Aviation Authority. He also runs an economic consultancy, DT Economics, focusing on regulation, competition and expert witness services.

David is a chartered accountant and economist who started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers and moved to KPMG after a period as the director of competition and regulatory finance at Ofcom. At KPMG he founded and led its global economics and regulation practice. David retired as a partner at KPMG in 2016.

Dominic Veney

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Dom is Chief Actuary for Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) – a specialist insurer of defined benefit pension funds. Dom is responsible for leading the actuarial team at PIC – providing the regular reporting and analysis of the company’s financial performance across all solvency and shareholder metrics, including the calculation and analysis of both the technical provisions and the capital requirements using the agreed internal model. Prior to joining PIC, Dom spent 15 years at PwC, including 6 years as a partner leading their UK life actuarial team, and as Global Actuarial IFRS 17 leader.

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