Leading by example: Diversity Panel

This event is now fully booked. A reserve list is in operation and if anyone cancels their place it will be allocated to the next person on the reserve list. 

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This event will also be filmed to allow a greater number to benefit from the discussions at a later date.  To receive a link to the film once it is available, please contact Debbie Atkins - debbie.atkins@actuaries.org.uk at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. 

The panel will comprise of :

Linda Urquhart OBE (Chairing the disscussion):

Chairman, Morton Fraser. A former Chairman of CBI Scotland, she is a board member of CBI and Scottish Enterprise, Chairman of Investors in People Scotland, a non-executive director of Adam & Company (the Scottish private bank) and Edinburgh Airport Limited, a member of the Edinburgh Business Forum and the Co-Chair of the Scottish Government appointed Fair Work Convention. She is a Trustee of Marie Curie and the Royal Scottish Academy Foundation and an Ambassador for Girlguiding UK. Linda received an OBE for services to business in Scotland in the New Year Honours List 2012 and was named Action for Children Scotland's Woman of Influence 2015.

Fiona Morrison:

President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and a Partner in Lane Clark & Peacock LLP. In addition to being on Council and President of the IFoA, Fiona is a member of the IFoA’s Diversity Steering Group, and a member of the IFoA’s Regulation Board, which is responsible for professional and ethical standards. Previously she was Deputy Chairman of the Pensions Board and Chairman of the Pensions Guidance Committee. She is also a Court Assistant of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries. Within Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) Fiona chairs the Professional Committee responsible for all decisions and policies of a professional nature and also leads on pensions matters and she chairs the firm's Conflicts and Ethics Committee.

Lady Susan Rice CBE:

Chair, Scottish Water and Business Stream. Lady Rice is also founding Chair of the Scottish Fiscal Commission and a Non-Executive Director of J Sainsbury’s, Big Society Capital and the North American Income Trust. A lay member of Court of Edinburgh University and a non-executive of the Banking Standards Board, she also chairs the Chartered Banker: Professional Standards Board. She chairs the Patrons Governors of the National Galleries of Scotland and the new City of Edinburgh Cultural Task Group as well as Scotland's 2020 Climate Group. She was a member of the recent First Minister’s Council of Economic Advisors, a Director of Bank of England and SSE, Managing Director of Lloyds Banking Group Scotland and previously Chief Executive and then Chairman of Lloyds TSB Scotland plc. She was recently named Global Woman of the Year by the St Andrews Society of New York.

Tanya Castell:

Tanya Castell is a former senior global banking executive with expertise in risk management, regulation, corporate governance, and change. She has a portfolio of non-executive directorships which includes the UK’s only near real time payments system, Faster Payments, global derivatives brokerage firm Societe Generale Newedge and she is Vice Chair of Scottish Canals (which is conserving and transforming the canals in Scotland including promotion of regeneration and tourism). In addition Tanya is chair of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Quality Assurance Scheme sub-committee, on the board of a community charity in the Highlands, a governor of Fettes College and sits on the advisory board of Women on Boards. She is also the founder and Chair of Changing the Chemistry (CtC), a charity headquartered in Scotland which is seeking to improve board effectiveness through greater diversity of thought around the boardroom table. CtC operates as a mutual peer-support network and has filled over 50 board roles from its membership since it started.