Anna was named “Lawyer of the Year” at the Professional Pensions Women in Pensions Awards 2019 and is recognised as a “Next Generation Partner” in the UK Legal 500 2020. She is the Chair of the PLSA’s Legal Advisory Group and sits on the Association of Pension Lawyers’ DC & Investment Committee.

She is a member of the DC Governance Group that drafted the PLSA’s 2020 template DC Chair’s statement and is a founding member of the Asset Security Working Party whose trustee guides are recommended by The Pensions Regulator. Anna was one of the experts on the PLSA’s ESG and Stewardship Taskforce, that created practical guidance for trustees.

She is currently sitting on the PLSA’s Voting and Implementation Statement Working Group that hopes to do similar in relation to the 2020 requirements in force later this year.

Anna has spent time on secondment at both The Pensions Regulator and the PLSA and is a regular industry speaker and panellist.

Anna is the Chair of NextGen, an industry group established to promote and encourage the next generation of pensions professionals. She is also a pension scheme trustee.

Charles Counsell was appointed Chief Executive of The Pensions Regulator (TPR) on 1 April 2019. Prior to this Charles was Chief Executive at the Money Advice Service for nearly two years. Charles spent six years before this as Executive Director for Automatic Enrolment at TPR where he was responsible for the successful roll-out of this programme across the UK, working alongside the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In his time at TPR, the automatic enrolment programme led to over 7.5 million workers newly saving into a workplace pension from over 500,000 employers. Charles was awarded an OBE in 2017 for services to workplace pension reform. He has spent much of his career setting up and leading major change programmes in both the private and public sector in the UK and overseas. Charles is also a Trustee of South Somerset Citizens Advice.

Chris Curry was appointed in 2019 on a part-time basis as Principal of the Pensions Dashboards Programme at the Money and Pensions Service. Chris brings valuable expertise and insight gained in his other role as the Director of the Pensions Policy Institute (where he continues to work part-time).

Chris has worked on important projects such as the DWP Auto-Enrolment Review Advisory Group in 2017, where he was co-chair and led on providing advice on the theme of Contributions. At the PPI Chris has authored and presented a number of research reports analysing pensions (including state, private and public sector pensions), pension reforms and other provision for retirement income.

Chris started his career as an Economic Adviser at the Department of Social Security (now the Department for Work and Pensions), before joining the ABI as Senior Economist. Chris has a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Warwick, and an MSc in Economics from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

David was appointed Executive Director of Regulatory Policy, Analysis and Advice on 2 July 2018. He is responsible for development of policy for TPR and has oversight of TPR's professional advisers including lawyers, actuaries, investment advisers and business analysts. David is a former Chairman of the Association of Consulting Actuaries and Director of the Association of Consulting Actuaries Limited, a former Council member of the International Actuarial Association, and inaugural Chairman of the Joint Industry Forum for Workplace Pensions. He was also a Council member of the Society of Pension Consultants and is immediate past Chairman of the Actuaries Club.

David was a Senior Partner in the Pensions practice at KPMG where he advised on the design, implementation, management and communication of pensions and employee benefit arrangements. Immediately prior to joining TPR, David developed and lead the Trustee Board Effectiveness service provided by KPMG and in collaboration with the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association.

He has previously worked with DWP and HM Treasury on pensions and pension taxation policy.

Guy Opperman was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions on 14 June 2017. He served as a Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) from 17 July 2016 to 14 June 2017. He was elected Conservative MP for Hexham in May 2010. Guy has an Honours Degree in Law from the University of Buckingham and a first class diploma from the University of Lille, France. Guy was called to the Bar in 1989 and spent 20 years as a barrister - 15 years of which were spent predominantly at the criminal bar. Guy is an amateur jockey and rode his first win in 1985.

Huw Evans joined BESTrustees in 2014 and represents us as trustee to nine pension schemes and chairs eight of these trustee bodies, three as sole trustee.

His experience as a trustee includes guiding schemes to the closing stages of wind up, the appointment of new suppliers, the implementation of LDI, fiduciary management and buy-in transactions as well as routine projects such as actuarial valuations. Huw holds the Pensions Management Institute’s Award in Pensions Trusteeship for both Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution pension schemes and is a member of the Association of Professional Pensions Trustees.

Huw worked as a volunteer for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries for many years, including as a member of the IFoA’s Council, chair of its Pensions Board, and member of its Regulation Board. Before joining BESTrustees, Huw enjoyed a 20-year career culminating in 7 years at Towers Watson where he was an active member of Towers Watson’s teams specialising in pension scheme valuations, mortality, European pensions and professional affairs. Prior to joining Towers Watson, Huw was part of the management team of a combined benefits consultancy & administration department within Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow.

Huw is a former Regional Organiser for The Pensions Advisory Service in Surrey.

Margaret Snowdon OBE is a pensions professional and experienced non-executive director. She is a Non-executive Member of the Phoenix Group With Profits Committees as well as a Non-executive Director of XPS Pension Group plc and has recently stepped down after fours on the Board of the Pensions Regulator. She sits on the Advisory Board of Moneyhub Financial Technology Limited. Margaret previously held partner and director level positions with the leading employee benefit consultancies. Among her many voluntary roles within the pensions industry, Margaret is Chair of the Pension Scams Industry Group, which has saved countless £ millions from falling into the hands of scammers. She is the first Honorary President of the Pensions Administration Standards Association, having previously been Chair for seven years. She serves on the Council of the Pensions Policy Institute and is a Member of the Personal Finance Society’s Pensions Advice Taskforce, leads on the PASA DB Transfers Code of Practice and is a member of the STAR Steering Group. She is also a Early Resolution Adviser with the Pensions Ombudsman service. Margaret was appointed an OBE in 2010 and has received many awards for her contribution to Pensions.

Philip Collins is a columnist on The Times and the chief executive of the writing and rhetoric company The Draft. Collins spent several years as an equity strategist in investment banking. He was a political adviser to Frank Field and also worked for the Institute of Education at the University of London and for the BBC and LWT.

He was until 2007 the Chief Speech Writer to the PM Tony Blair and is also a Chair of trustees at the think tank Demos. Mr Collins has also had spells as the Director of the think tank the Social Market Foundation and in investment banking, where he was an Equity Analyst.

He is the author of a book on speeches, When They Go Low We Go High and a book on the future of British politics, Start Again.

Roger Mattingly is an APPT Accredited Professional Trustee at Ross Trustees. He has spent his entire career in the pensions industry, the last seven years as a trustee. He chairs many trustee boards of various shapes and sizes. He is a Past President of the Society of Professional Pensions, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and has sat on many industry committees, working parties and advisory panels over the years.