Sophia is a partner and Head of DC at XPS Group and is currently President of the Society of Pension Professionals, the industry body representing the wide range of providers of advice and services to pension schemes, trustees and employers. She has almost 30 years’ experience in the UK pensions industry and advises corporates and trustees across all areas of their DC schemes including optimising benefit design, developing investment solutions, improving member engagement and ensuring effective scheme governance.

She is a well-known industry and media commentator on DC market developments and feels passionately that we must tackle short-term financial resilience as well as deliver better long-term retirement products, if we’re going to help today’s workforce to retire with the security and lifestyle they want.