Jane Hanson CBE

Appointed: January 2021

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 acting as Honorary Treasurer of the Disasters Emergency Committee. She is also a magistrate.

Current other Non-Executive positions

Jane is a Non-Executive Director of HM Treasury, Audit Committee Chair at the Civil Aviation Authority, Independent Advisor and Audit and Risk Committee member of John Lewis Partnership and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Bardi Symphony Orchestra.

Previous Non-Executive positions

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) and Aviva Ireland (Chair of Audit Committee), and Independent Member of the Customer Fairness Committee at ReAssure Ltd. Honorary Treasurer at the Disasters Emergency Committee.

Committee membership

Chair of the Audit Committee and the Finance Committee. Member of the DPC Project Committee, the Environment, Social and Governance Committee, the Quality and Safety Committee and the Leakage Oversight Committee.