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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

  • Responsible investment: what it means to us

    Our new report, Responsible investment: what it means to us, summarises why responsible investment is central to our approach. It brings together why we invest this way, how we do it, and what it looks like in practice, with recent examples from across the portfolio.

  • USS announces changes to USSL and USSIM Boards

    Dame Kate Barker will stand down as Chair of Universities Superannuation Scheme in July 2027, just shy of completing her final term, as part of carefully scheduled succession planning.

  • Conditional Indexation: second report (December 2025)

    UCEA and UCU have been exploring Conditional Indexation (CI) benefit design options. The second of two planned reports assesses the potential benefits and drawbacks of CI to assist UCU and UCEA in engaging with members and employers about whether exploration of CI should continue to a more detailed design phase.

Views from USS

  • The six month shift

    With Father’s Day approaching, our colleague Bhavin Dhanani reflects on how the extended paternity leave provided to eligible USS employees is the ultimate career and family reset.

  • Assessing the performance of our investment strategy

    Explaining how the investment performance of the scheme’s DB fund is measured and assessed.

  • Why bold policy and smart investment are critical for a successful energy transition

    The energy transition isn’t a distant goal — it’s a present-day financial imperative. In a new paper authored by USS Investment Management Limited, with support from Transition Risk Exeter (Trex), we make the case for stronger action from governments, improved management of climate risks and opportunities from asset owners, and a more collaborative approach to managing these challenges.