Disciplinary Appointments Committee

Disciplinary Appointments Committee

John Martin QC – Chairman

John Martin was called to the Bar in 1972 after reading law at Cambridge, and took silk in 1991.  He practises in London in a very wide range of business and property litigation.  He has been a deputy High Court Judge since 1993, and a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey since 2007.  He is a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.

Val Timlin - Lay Member

Val Timlin has been a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development since 2000 and in 2011 was approved by the CIPD President as being suitable to act as the lay member with recruitment expertise on The Actuarial Profession's Disciplinary Appointments Committee.

Paul Thornton

A Past President of the Institute of Actuaries (1998-2000), and of the International Actuarial Association (2010).

Chairman of the Pensions Advisory team at Gazelle Corporate Finance Limited, Member of the With Profits Committee of Prudential Assurance, and strategic adviser to data mining specialist DCisions.

In May 2007 he provided an independent Report to the Minister for Pensions Reform in the UK on a Review of nine Government sponsored Pensions Institutions.

He co-edited “Good Governance for Pension Schemes”, published by Cambridge University Press in July 2011.

Formerly the Senior Partner of Watson Wyatt LLP and Actuary to a number of FTSE 100 pension schemes.

Stewart Ritchie

Stewart Ritchie is a Past President of the Faculty of Actuaries. He took a degree in mathematics from Warwick University. For most of his career with Scottish Equitable (latterly AEGON) he was a  pensions actuary. He specialised in communication with Government and other public bodies, and in 2002 was appointed an Officer of the British Empire for services to pensions and the Actuarial Profession.

John Hylands

John Hylands qualified as a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in 1982.  He served as Chairman of the Education and CPD Board of the Profession (1994 – 97), Chairman of the Life Board (2002 – 2004) and Chairman of the Management Board (2008 – 2010).  He served two periods on Faculty Council and was a Vice President of the Faculty (2006 – 2010).  His business career was at Standard Life where he was Group Finance Director (2001 – 2005) and led the project to demutualise the company.  Since leaving Standard Life in 2007 he has worked as a non-executive director and pension trustee.

Michael Pomery

Michael Pomery is a Past President of the Institute of Actuaries (2004-2006). He was a member of Council of the Institute from 1996 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2009. He chaired the Pensions Board (1998 - 2000) and the Social Policy Board (2003-2004). He received the President's Award in 2002.

He is currently a member of the International Committee of the UK Actuarial Profession and of the Nominations Committee of the International Actuarial Association. He chaired the IAA Professionalism Committee for four years (2009 - 2012).

Michael qualified as FIA in 1970 and spent his whole career with Bacon & Woodrow and Hewitt, retiring in 2006. He was awarded the CVO in the 2007 New Year's Honours for actuarial services to the Royal Households.

He is currently chairman of the Pensions Policy Institute and of the Supervisory Board for the Schroders Common Investment Funds for charities; a trustee of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries Charitable Trust and of Whiteley Homes Trust; and Honorary President of the Pensions Archive Trust.