Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Michael Chatterton,
Senior Consultant,
Watson Wyatt

A Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, Michael Chatterton has over 20 years’ experience in professional services, including working for Bacon & Woodrow, Arthur Andersen and Black Mountain, where he was CEO based in its New York headquarters. In his career, Michael has worked in a wide range of roles including consulting on international pensions and broader human capital issues, developing new consulting solutions, business management, and sales and marketing.

Michael now leads the team developing Watson Wyatt’s comprehensive service offering for organisations looking to settle their pension liabilities, where ever they are along their journey to settlement.

Martin Clarke,
Executive Director of Financial Risk,
Pension Protection Fund (PPF)

A Cambridge-educated mathematician, actuary and Harvard Business School alumnus, Martin Clarke's previous career was spent in retail financial services with the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS), the financial services arm of the Co-op, which he joined in 1977.

Among his achievements were to develop the marketing function of the company’s insurance business and lead the CIS’s life and savings business through a period of recovery.

He is an experienced general manager used to dealing with complex and technical projects such as the development of new products, new business opportunities and major change programmes. He has a special interest in corporate social responsibility and the development of socially responsible investment.

Fiona Stewart,
Financial Affairs Division,
OECD

Fiona Stewart works for the OECD's Financial Affairs Division. She provides Secretariat support for the organisation's Working Party on Private Pensions, a group that brings together policymakers and other relevant parties from 30 member countries. She also works with the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors, an international body dedicated to cooperation and research on pension supervisory issues.

Prior to working at the OECD, Fiona worked in the investment industry for 10 years. As head of American Express Asset Management in Japan she was responsible for investing $2bn in Asian equity markets, and, as part of an international team, for managing $20bn globally. She holds degrees from Oxford and Johns Hopkins Universities and a Chartered Financial Analyst qualification. She is also a member of the advisory board for one of the OECD's own pension funds.

Penny Shepherd MBE,
Chief Executive,
UKSIF

Penny Shepherd has been UKSIF Chief Executive since May 2005.
She is also a lay member of the Actuarial Profession’s Professional Regulation Executive Committee. She was the first Chief Executive of the London Sustainability Exchange (2001-2005) and has been a member of the Mayor of London's Sustainable Development Commission (2002-2007). She is a former member of the Stakeholder Interests Working Group of the Board for Actuarial Standards and Professional Oversight Board.

As UKSIF Executive Director from 1997-2001, Penny played a leading role in championing the government’s SRI disclosure regulation for occupational pension funds and tripled UKSIF’s membership. Her leadership in socially responsible investment was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2000 with an MBE for “services to sustainable economic development and socially responsible investment”.
Penny spent twenty years in the computer industry, where she advised financial services and other companies on business solutions.