FairPensions’ Board of Trustees includes a cross-section of people with expertise and experience in the fields of pension law, investment management, labour rights, environmental activism and socially responsible investment.

Our Board recently undertook an audit to identify the range of skills and expertise we need. As vacancies become available, we look for trustees to complement the existing strengths on our Board.

Jeremy Nicholls, Chair of Trustees

Jeremy Nicholls is Chief Executive of SROI UK, an organisation which promotes the measurement and analysis of social return on investment. His work focuses on enabling organisations in the public, private and third sectors to better understand and manage the social value they create.

Jeremy is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation (nef) and co-founder of the Beta Model Ltd, a business providing data on trends and dynamics in business size in the UK.  He lectures on Social Value at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Stuart Bell

Stuart is a founding partner and Director of Ergon Associates, which provides consultancy on international labour rights issues. Prior to this, he was Research Director at Pensions & Investment Research Consultants Ltd (PIRC) for 12 years, advising pension funds and investment managers on socially responsible investment strategies, corporate governance and shareholder activism. He currently serves on the board of PIRC.

Sam Clarke

Sam worked for many years at Oxfam, ending as Fundraising Director before taking up the leadership of Oxfordshire Mind and later the World University Service. He has been on the board of the Refugee Council and Friends of the Earth (as chairman).

Sam is currently chair of the New Economics Foundation, Friends of the Earth in Ireland, a founder and chair of Stop Climate Chaos, a trustee of Employment for the Disabled and a director of the Oxford-based disability support organisation Able Types Ltd.

Stephen Hine

Stephen Hine is Head of International Relations, Ethical Investment Research Services (EIRIS). Stephen also acts as Treasurer of the Association for Independent Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Research.  Until June 2008, Stephen was the Chair of FairPensions.

Jenine Langrish

Jenine worked for HSBC's asset management division for nearly 24 years, most recently as a senior member of the charities team, before leaving in October 2008 to devote more time to charity sector work.  Prior to joining the charities team, she spent around 16 years as a fund manager.  Jenine is also a trustee of Excellent Development, and a member of the Finance and Audit committee of Christian Aid.  She has a degree in economics and is passionate about environmental, conservation and development issues.

Jennifer Morgan

As Sustainable Business Manager for Global Finance at WWF, Jen is responsible for developing WWF's programme of work to engage the finance sector for transformational change. For the past 10 years, she has held roles in the commercial world both in the UK and in the US. Jen is also a Steering Committee Member of BankTrack - a coalition of NGOs engaging with the global banking sector.

Lenka Setkova

Lenka is Director of the Democracy and Civil Society Programme at the Carnegie UK Trust where she is focused on a Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. For the first seven years of her career, Lenka worked in Central and Eastern Europe with the Overseas Development Agency/Foreign and Commonwealth Office and with the C.S. Mott Foundation. Since moving back to the UK in 2002, Lenka has worked with the Tudor Trust and with New Philanthropy Capital.

Tim Valentine

Tim was appointed to the post of Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London in 1997, having previously held academic posts at the Universities of Manchester and Durham. He is also a Director of Valentine Moore Associates Ltd.

Paul Watchman

Paul Watchman is the author of the groundbreaking Freshfields legal opinion on the responsibilities of institutional investors, "A legal framework for the integration of environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment". He has a wide ranging practice, primarily in non-contentious environmental planning and regulation (public law). Practicing law for more than 30 years, he has represented a large number of industrial conglomerates in selling and buying businesses around the globe.

FairPensions trustees complete a declaration of director's interests and the chair of the board, Jeremy Nicholls, maintains a register of these. This is intended to be a full declaration of all roles and possessions for trustees and their immediate family which might be thought to have any effect on carrying out the role of trustee of FairPensions. It is the duty of all FairPensions' directors to declare any conflicts of interest.