Our Staff and Steering Group

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Ashok Gupta

Chair and Founding Director

Chair of the Financial Systems Thinking Innovation Centre (FinSTIC). Chair of Mercer UK, Chair of EV and non-executive Director of Sun Life Financial Inc. Led a review of the UK DB Pensions Sector as Chair of a PLSA Taskforce.

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Ben Rich

CEO

Chief Executive of Radix Big Tent, the think tank for systems change. Former Chief of Staff to Tim Farron MP while leader of the Liberal Democrats and Partner at City PR firm Luther Pendragon.

Prof. Iain Clacher  Research Director, NCC

Professor Iain Clacher

Research Director

Professor of Pensions & Finance at Leeds University Business School. Expert on pensions and retirement savings. Iain is a key contributor to pension policy and practice and has advised organisations including the PLSA, ONS and FCA.

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Daniel Hedley

Policy Director

Former Head of Policy at Fidelity International and policy lead at BlackRock, Macquarie and Barclays Global Investors (BGI). Prior to industry Dan was Retail, Retirement and Conduct Policy lead at the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

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Francis Bell

Head of Communications & Public Affairs

Formerly a Parliamentary Researcher for several Members of Parliament. Communications & public affairs professional focused on delivering policy recommendations, briefings and key findings to a political and industry-level audience.

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Gareth Thomas

Policy Adviser

Former Head of DB Pensions Policy at Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Expert on government policy and legislation on defined benefit pensions and contracting-out, with experience in the international aspects of pensions policy including EU issues.

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Dr Sania Wadud

Researcher

Senior Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School. Former lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex and lecturer of Finance at BRAC University, Bangladesh.

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Isabel Edwards Buesa

Project Administrator

Researcher in public policy and recent graduate from the University of York. Formerly a researcher at York & Scarborough Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust and Healthwatch UK, and intern at the Department of Business & Trade.

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David Gunn

Partner

Strategist with the Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator specialising in the response to climate change. Former founding Director of Something More Near, leading climate action projects with partners including UNEP, Sky, Netflix and COP26.

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Nick Silver

Partner

Co-founder of Climate Bond Initiative to facilitate institutional investment at scale in the low carbon economy and Radix Big Tent Board Member. Actuary and economist whose specialities include climate change policy, social insurance and development.