NED Event: What Makes a Good NED and how do I Become One?

We want to explore how actuaries can increase their chances of being selected for NED roles. What knowledge, skills and experience over and beyond actuarial training will make you an attractive candidate? What sort of personalities and mindset does the role demand? And once appointed, what capabilities will best equip you to be a good NED

This is an event for everyone interested in the NED role with particular emphasis on aspiring NEDs and the newly appointed. If you’re an established NED please share your thoughts of your early days. If you’re thinking of NED roles in the future, or struggling to get your first position and wondering why there are no takers, come and pick up some valuable advice. And if you have negotiated the recruitment process successfully and are a newly appointed NED, tell us how you did it and whether your preconceptions of the role have been borne out in practice.

Speakers 

Barbara Schoenhofer -  Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer for The Jacobson Group (chair)
Audrey McNair - Global Head of Business Risk at Aberdeen Asset Management and NED of a building society
Sandy Muirhead - leads private equity investor Phoenix’s Financial Services sector investment activity
Clive Adamson - formerly with the Financial Conduct Authority and now NED with JP Morgan
Fiona Matthews - actuary with Towers Watson and NED with an NHS Foundation Trust