Information on the current directors of Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd.
Sir Martin Harris
Chairman
Appointed by UUK
Sir Martin Harris is Director of the Office for Fair Access. He has been a director of Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited since 1 April 1991 deputy chairman from 1 July 2004 and chairman from 1 April 2006. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester from 1992 to 2004 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex from 1987 to 1992. He served as chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (now UUK) from 1997 to 1999. He became President of Clare Hall, Cambridge on 1 October 2008.
Professor John Bull CBE
Director and Deputy Chairman
Co-opted
Professor Bull was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Plymouth from 1989 until his retirement in 2002. An economist and accountant by discipline, he had a particular interest in the finance and management of higher education. He became a co-opted member of the USS board in 2004 and deputy chairman on 1 April 2006. Since 2002 he has been chairman of the Devon and Cornwall Learning and Skills Council and of Dartington College of Arts and is currently chairman of the Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust.
Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell
Director
Appointed by UUK
Professor Glynis Breakwell DBE was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath in 2001. She became a UUK nominated member of the USS board on 1 October 2009. Professor Breakwell took her PhD from the University of Bristol and DSc from the University of Oxford. In 2003 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Bristol and in 2004 became an Honorary Professor at the University of Shandong in China. In 2002, she was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2006, she became one of the Honorary Fellows of the British Psychological Society.
Michael Butcher
Director
Co-opted
Michael Butcher became a co-opted member of the board on 1st November 2004 having retired from IBM where he held a variety of technical, sales and marketing positions in UK and Europe, latterly as Tivoli EMEA Marketing Director. He is a member of the audit committee at Loughborough University and continues to take an active interest in the effective use of IT.
Joseph Devlin
Director
Appointed by UCU
Joe Devlin has been the Open University’s Pensions Manager since 1998, having previously worked over a number of years in the private sector in the areas of actuarial, pension consultancy and administration. Joe has tutored for the Pensions Management Institute and International Employee Benefits Examinations.
He was appointed a UCU nominated director of USS in September 2007
Professor David Eastwood
Director
Appointed by UUK
Professor David Eastwood became Chief Executive of HEFCE on 1 September 2006. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (UEA). Before taking up his position at UEA, Professor Eastwood was Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Previously he held a Chair in Modern History at the University of Wales Swansea, where he was also head of department, dean and pro-vice-chancellor. He was fellow and senior tutor of Pembroke College (1988-95), and is an Honorary Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford, from where he graduated in 1980, and of Keble College, Oxford from 2006. Professor Eastwood was made an Honorary D. Litt of the University of the West of England in 2002 and the University of East Anglia in 2006. In April 2009 Professor Eastwood became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
Mr Steve Egan
Director
Appointed by HEFC
Steve Egan is deputy chief executive at the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He was previously director of finance at the National Rivers Authority. He has a degree in banking and finance from Loughborough University, an MBA from Bath University and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Steve is vice chair of the IMHE (the higher education program) of the OECD and trustee of the National Centre for Social Research.
D Guppy
Director
Appointed by UCU
Dave Guppy has worked in the computing service at University College London since 1979. Prior to that he worked in similar roles at the London Hospital Medical College, a software co-operative and IBM. He was President of University College London Association of University Teachers (2002/04) and served as Vice-Chair of the national AUT computer staffs committee (1998/2003). He is a member of the national executive committee of the University and College Union. He was appointed to the board in 2005.
Virginia Holmes
Director
Co-opted
Virginia Holmes was formerly chief executive of AXA Investment Managers in the UK, and managing director of Barclays Bank Trust Company. She is currently non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of JP Morgan Fleming Claverhouse Investment Trust and non-executive director of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation in Canada. She became a director of USS in September 2005.
Howard Jacobs
Director
Co-opted
Howard Jacobs became a co-opted member of the board on 1 October 2002 upon his retirement from the solicitors, Slaughter and May, where he specialised in employment law and pensions law. He remains a consultant with that firm. He is also vice-president of ICAN the national educational charity for children with communication difficulties.
David McDonnell
Director
Appointed by UUK
David McDonnell has been Chief Executive Officer of Grant Thornton International since 2001. He is currently President of the University of Liverpool, Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University, Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Merseyside and a committee member on various charities. He was Chairman of the Trustees of the National Museums Liverpool for ten years and was awarded the CBE in June 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours. He was appointed to the board in April 2007.
Bill Trythall
Pensioner Director
Appointed by UCU
Bill Trythall, having been a director from 1988 to 2005 returned to the board to succeed Lady Merrison as pensioner director in October 2009. Before he retired he was a lecturer in History at the University of York from 1969, specialising in modern Spanish history. He first became involved in the working of USS when he began a stint of twenty years representing AUT on the JNC and he has continued to be involved since leaving the board and the JNC as the nominee of UCU on the Rules Committee. He was on the national executive committee of AUT for many years and its president for the year 1989-90.