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Contacting the Corporate affairs team

    • For urgent enquiries outside of office hours, you can also call 07713 075024

Meet your Corporate affairs team

  • Richard Williams

    Richard leads the Corporate Affairs team, coordinating and leading USS’s work to engage with the media, Government and others.

  • Joel Sawyer

    Joel is the first point of contact for most media enquiries. He focuses on USS corporate issues such as the valuation process.
  • Alexandra Bradshaw

    Alex covers our investment communications, working closely with USSIM (this includes our private market assets and our Net Zero journey).

  • Samantha Wilding

    Sam leads on USS’s engagement with Westminster and Whitehall, and coordinates our annual responsible investment reporting.

Latest news

  • USS signs Mansion House Accord for private market investments

    Private markets already form an important part of our investment portfolio as we believe they can achieve beneficial investment outcomes for our members over the long term. We have therefore signed the new Mansion House Accord – a non-binding, voluntary expression of intent to invest at least 10% in private markets across defined contribution (DC) default funds by 2030, with at least 5% of total assets going to UK private markets.

  • Lawrence Churchill appointed Chair of the Joint Negotiating Committee

    The Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) has appointed Lawrence Churchill CBE as its new independent Chair.

  • USS awarded Gold accreditation from Investors in People

    Universities Superannuation Scheme’s Pensions Operations team has achieved the coveted Investors in People Gold accreditation. The award follows Pensions Operations achieving the Customer Service Excellence (CSE) accreditation for the second year in succession, with compliance-plus achieved in three areas.

Views from USS

  • Incorporating sustainability-themed investments in our DC ethical investment options

    We’ve updated USS’s Investment Builder ethical investment options to incorporate a more explicit focus on sustainable investing.

  • USS: 50 years young – reflections on the scheme’s golden jubilee year

    To mark USS’s 50th anniversary, we invited David Watts (a UCU-appointed non-executive director) and Will Spinks (a UCEA-appointed non-executive director) to share their perspectives on the scheme and where it finds itself in its jubilee year.

  • Private considerations

    The way USS has developed its in-house private markets expertise over the past 18 years is held up as a case study in a report published by the People’s Pension.