Jane Hanson CBE
Chair of the Board
Appointed Non-Executive Director: January 2021
Chair of the Board: 1 January 2025
Experience
A qualified Chartered Accountant, Jane has over 20 years of Non-Executive Director experience on private, listed, public sector and charity Boards in both Audit and Risk Committee Chair and Board Chair roles. Her executive career included extensive experience of Strategic Development, Enterprise Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Internal Control frameworks in blue-chip, heavily regulated entities including Aviva plc. She also has wide experience of developing and monitoring customer and conduct risk frameworks and overseeing large and complex IT and transformation programmes. Jane was awarded a CBE in 2023 for services to charity having served as Chair of the Reclaim Fund for over 10 years, making available over £2bn of Financial Sector assets to charitable causes, and Honorary Treasurer of the Disasters Emergency Committee. She is also a magistrate.
Current other Non-Executive positions
Jane is Chair of John Lewis Finance Limited, Audit Committee Chair and Non-Executive Director of Royal BAM Group and Non-Executive Director of HM Treasury. Jane is also a Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Bardi Symphony Orchestra.
Previous Non-Executive positions
Independent Audit & Risk Committee member of John Lewis Partnership, Audit Committee Chair at the Civil Aviation Authority Chair of the Reclaim Fund Ltd and the UK Government’s Dormant Asset Expansion Board, Non-Executive Director at Rothesay Life plc, Direct Line Group plc (Chair of Group Board Risk Committee), William Hill plc, Old Mutual Wealth plc (Chair of Board Risk Committee), Independent Member of the Customer Fairness Committee at ReAssure Ltd and Honorary Treasurer at the Disasters Emergency Committee.
Committee Membership
Chair of the Nomination Committee. Member of the Remuneration Committee.