Trustees

A retired judge of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division.

A senior executive in the NHS with specific responsibility for patient advocacy.

Committees: Health & Wellbeing (Co-Chair), Finance

Senior fixed income fund manager at Legal and General Investment Management.

Previous experience at AXA Investment Managers, Royal Bank of Canada and Hambros Bank. Experienced across all classes of fixed income debt with a wide variety of clients.

Commitees: Finance

Until 30th April 2015, David was National Head of the Product Liability Team at Irwin Mitchell and had specialised in medical negligence and product liability work since the mid 1980s.

His specific areas of medical negligence expertise are claims arising from birth and paediatric injury, anaesthetic and neurosurgical accidents, and he has experience of most types of claims arising from failures to diagnose and treat.
In the 1990s he dealt with many product liability claims arising from the use of contaminated growth hormone which caused Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and represented the families of CJD victims at the BSE inquiry. He has spent a good part of the last decade running a group action against Sanofi on behalf of the injured children of epileptic women who took sodium valproate during pregnancy.

Commitees: Health & Wellbeing

• Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore
• Director of Strategy & External Affairs, RNOH, Stanmore
• Past President, British Orthopaedic Association
• Training Programme Director, RNOH/Royal Free Training Programme
• Member of Council, Royal College of Surgeons
• Chair of Federation of Specialist Hospitals
• Founder Member of Specialist Orthopaedic Alliance
• Chair of National Reference Group for Specialist Orthopaedics

Committees: Research, Health & Wellbeing

Senior Partner of Spofforths Chartered Accountants, former President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Lecturer and broadcaster on financial matters. Member of Lord Hodgson’s 2012 review of the Charities Act 2006.

Committees: Finance

A leading actuary with Aon Hewitt, formerly a Partner in the actuarial firm Bacon and Woodrow.

A specialist in pensions risk, dealing with the interaction of investments and pensions. Second degree in e-commerce.

Committees: Finance (Chair)

Professor Owens is currently a consultant cardiac surgeon at South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, where he was previously a medical director, R&D director and clinical director.

He was awarded a Hunterian Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons and currently holds honorary academic appointments with Newcastle, Teesside and Durham Universities.

Committees: Health & Wellbeing & Claims

Committees: Health & Wellbeing & Research