OVERSIGHT TRUST - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Company Secretary
- Employee
- Chief Operating Officer and Company Secretary of the the
Alastair is currently the only employee of the Oversight Trust and he acts as Chief Operating Officer and Company Secretary.
The role is to be responsible for maintaining ongoing relationships with the Operating Companies, making arrangements around the Oversight Trust's oversight activities and all other administration of the Company including ensuring compliance with reporting requirements, producing the consolidated group annual report and recording the minutes of Board meetings. - read more about Alastair
If you have any general queries or comments concerning the The Oversight Trust, please contact Alastair via email - aballantyne@oversighttrust.
Alastair is the Chief Operating Officer and Company Secretary of the The OversightTrust, having previously working with Big Society Capital and before that as Communications Adviser to Sir Ronald Cohen. He enjoyed a twenty year career at Morgan Stanley International initially in the Investment Banking Division and subsequently in the European Chairman's Office where he was Head of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Senior Adviser
- Trustee
Role: Link Director for Fair4All Finance - read more about Andrew
Andrew Rose currently acts in non-executive, senior adviser and trustee roles across various sectors including infrastructure, housing and social impact investing. In his executive career he was a multiple CEO of companies in both the public and private sectors.
His CEO roles included the Homes & Communities Agency, the country's housing, land and regeneration agency, now known as Homes England. He has also been Chief Executive of Infrastructure UK (IUK) in HM Treasury. IUK produced the country's first National Infrastructure Plan. Most recently he was the inaugural Chief Executive of the Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA), a membership body representing investors in global infrastructure and leading advisers to the sector.
Role: Communications Advisor - Alan is an award-winning freelance who combines extensive experience of the charitable and public sectors. His clients have included the Mayor of London, several London boroughs, as well as charities such as the London Emergencies Trust, the Camden Society, the Migrants' Rights Network, the AIRE Centre, the Latin American Women's Rights Service, Plan UK, the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, and Women for Women International.
Job Titles:
- Senior Partner at Just Climate
Role: Link Director for Big Society Capital - read more about Clara
Clara is Senior Partner at Just Climate. Previously, Clara was Chief Executive of the Impact Management Project (IMP) and led the IFRS Foundation's project to establish the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), under the direction of the IFRS Foundation's Trustees. Clara's public interest work with the IMP was made possible through a secondment from her role as a Partner at Bridges Fund Management, where she led the firm's sustainable and impact strategies across fund types.
Prior to Bridges Fund Management, Clara worked for Acumen's Capital Markets team and later co-led the Acumen renewable energy portfolio, investing in India and East Africa.
Role: Governance Review Group - read more about Ian
Job Titles:
- Government Apointee
- Government Appointee
- Senior Commercial Specialist in the Infrastructure & Projects
Role: Nominations and Remuneration Committee - read more about Jo
Jo Fox is a Senior Commercial Specialist in the Infrastructure & Projects Authority and Head of Public Private Partnerships. She led the Government's review of the Private Finance Initiative (2011-12) and has a strong track record in policy development and leadership and the commercial and financial structuring of public private partnerships and infrastructure projects.
Jo set up HM Treasury's PPP equity investment unit and is a director of Treasury's investment companies, and the Government-appointed director to a number of project companies delivering infrastructure projects. Jo joined the Civil Service from KPMG where she worked in the Consulting and Corporate Finance practices before joining HM Treasury's Corporate & Private Finance team.
Role: Link Director for Access - read more about Kevin
Job Titles:
- Senior Independent Director
Role: Senior Independent Director, Quadrennial Review Lead and Governance Review Group
- read more about Nicola
Nicola has had a long career in grantmaking and charitable and voluntary sector, most recently with independent funder John Ellerman Foundation where she developed the strategic direction of the Foundation and advised on governance and grant making. She has a background in providing, developing and supporting advice services and policies at national, regional and local level, before joining the newly formed National Lottery Charities Board, when she was based in the North East of England.
Nicola has previously worked for Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, is Chair of the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action and a trustee of Local Trust, London Football Journeys and SASC Trust.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Visiting Professor at the Centre of Charity Effectiveness
Sir Stuart Etherington chairs the social research agency, NatCen. Until October 2019 he was Chief Executive of NCVO. Before that he was Chief Executive of the RNID. Stuart previously chaired London United and chaired the Patron's Fund which organised the 90th birthday celebrations for HM the Queen in 2016. He also chaired a cross party review looking at the structure of the regulation of fundraising.
Stuart is Visiting Professor at the Centre of Charity Effectiveness at City University. He has been a Trustee of Business in the Community, the Chair of the BBC Appeals Advisory Committee, a member of the Community and Social Affairs Committee of Barclays Bank. He is a former Chair of Guidestar UK, Treasurer of CIVICUS and Chair of CIVICUS Europe, council member of the Institute of Employment Studies, an advisory group member for the Policy Centre at the British Academy and for the Lord Mayor's Trust Initiative.
Role: Chair of the Board and on the Governance Group and Nominations and Remuneration Committee and - read more about Sir Stuart
Job Titles:
- Chairman of Power to Change
Stephen Howard LVO is Chair of Power to Change, an independent charitable trust, which he joined after retiring as Chief Executive of Business in the Community, after 11 years in post. Stephen brings a wealth of senior management experience in the corporate sector.
He has held a number of executive and non-executive roles including Chief Executive of Cookson Group plc and Novar plc. His other current roles include: Chairman, Thames Reach; Director, Big Issue Social Investments Limited; Trustee, American International Church; and Director, Thanda UK.
Role: Nominations and Remuneration
Committee Chair and Quadrennial Review Team - read more about Stephen