Our trustees

Hilary Wiseman (Chair)

Hilary is Managing Director of Wiseman Consulting Limited and was, until her early retirement in June 2005, Head of Diversity UK & Europe for HSBC Bank plc, based at their global headquarters in London.  She is a trustee of Age UK, the charity created by the merger of Help the Aged and Age Concern.

Hilary is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has an MSc in Human Resource Management. She is a JP.  She is also a former Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy Reserve.

Keith Faulkner CBE FRSA

Keith is Chairman of Working Links, an innovative public/private/voluntary sector joint venture company that supports social and economic community development through improved access to employment and skills development.  Keith has been associated with Working Links since its inception in 1999, was Managing Director between 2003 and 2008 and was, prior to that, a director of Manpower Plc where he built up his extensive experience of HR, industrial relations and labour market issues.

He is also sits on the London Skills and Employment Board and the Public Services Strategy Board of the CBI, is a Member of the Council for Administration and Chair of the charity, Training for Life.  Past activities include two and a half years as Chairman of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, chairing working parties on employment issues for both the CBI and RSA (of which he is a Fellow) and sitting on two New Deal working groups (Lone Parents and Retention).

John Macnicol

John is Visiting Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Adjunct Professor of the Boston University London Programme.  He has written extensively on current social policy and and the history of social policy. His current research interests are ageing and social policy, age discrimination and the history of retirement.

Dr Jill Mordaunt

Until recently Jill was Senior Lecturer in Social Enterprise and Head of the Centre for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise at the Open University Business School.  She led the Open University’s fundraising courses.  Her research focused on the challenges faced by managers in the public and not for profit sectors.

Yvonne Perry

Yvonne has extensive employment relations and change management experience in self-financing, not-for-profit and membership organisations.  She has written on employment issues.

She was a policy specialist and board member of the Industrial Society (now the Work Foundation), where she led the policy work and campaigning on employment legislation and pensions.  She helped set up and ran the Employee Communication Unit at the CBI which advised CBI members on better employee communication and consultation.

Yvonne has an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice and is currently a director of Ethical Investment Research & Information Services (EIRIS). 

Nigel Waterson

Nigel was MP for Eastbourne from 1992 to 2010, and was Shadow Pensions Minister from 2003.  He was for many years Chairman of the All Party Group for Older People at Westminster.

Nigel is a member of the Advisory Board of ATP Pensions and a consultant to Age UK and AARP.  He is a trustee of the International Longevity Centre and a member of the Council of the Society of Pension Consultants.  He is also Chairman of Abbeyfield Sussex.

Nigel writes and lectures on pensions and ageing issues.