The People's Pension Trustee Limited - April 2026
The People’s Pension Trustee is responsible for running the scheme and for looking after all the pots of money held by the scheme. Incorporated on 30 May 2012, the Trustee Board is made up of the following individuals.
Mark Condron - Chair of the Trustee (re-appointed 1 April 2025)
Mark joined the Board in 2020 and was appointed as Chair of the Trustee Board in October 2022. Mark is a professional trustee and actuary and has over 30 years’ pensions experience covering all aspects of investment, funding, governance and administration. During his earlier career Mark held a number of senior positions with responsibility for pensions advisory and pensions administration businesses. In his advisory work he has helped many large UK pension funds and companies on all aspects of pension provision, and now serves on a number of UK trustee boards, investment committees and pension scheme governance committees. He is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and an Accredited Professional Trustee.
Baroness Jeannie Drake CBE - Trustee Director (re-appointed 1 April 2024)
Baroness Drake sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. She is a former member of the Turner Pension Commission, which recommended introducing auto-enrolment and a current member of the Second Pension Commission. She was also on the Board of the Pension Protection Fund, the Board of The Pensions Advisory Service, and was Acting Chair of PADA, the forerunner to NEST. She has more than 30 years’ experience in the trade union movement, including as President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and was a Commissioner of both the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunities Commission.
David Maddison - Trustee Director (re-appointed 1 April 2026)
David is an independent trustee who has 40 years of pensions industry experience. He worked with RPMI Ltd (now Railpen) where he fulfilled a number of senior operational and governance roles covering both defined benefit and defined contribution schemes. He is also a Department for Transport nominee on two railway pension schemes, one of which he chairs. David chairs The People’s Pension Risk, Administration & Audit Committee.
Emma Osborne - Trustee Director (re-appointed 1 April 2026)
Emma joined the Board in 2022 and is a member of the Investment Committee. She is also a trustee director of the BBC Pension Scheme, where she is Senior Director and chairs the Investment Committee, and she has a couple of non-executive director positions in investment management. Her pensions experience has also included trustee and investment committee roles at the Church of England Pensions Board and chair of Chubb’s UK pension scheme. Previously, Emma’s career had mainly been in institutional investment management, including positions as Head of Quantitative Investment Management and Derivatives for Credit Suisse Asset Management and as Chief Investment Officer for the international assets of the Chubb Corporation, a US insurance company.
Chris Fagan - Trustee Director (re-appointed 1 April 2026)
Chris is an independent Accredited Professional Trustee and investment specialist with more than 30 years of pensions industry experience. In addition to his role at The People’s Pension Scheme, he is a trustee of one other pension scheme. Before his appointment by The People’s Pension Scheme, he was a Trustee of the Towers Watson Pension Scheme and worked in Willis Towers Watson’s Investment Advisory and Fiduciary Management Teams. He has also led the internal Investment Team at a major UK pension fund. Chris chairs The People’s Pension Investment Committee.
Dr Sheila Doyle - Trustee Director (appointed 1 April 2024)
Sheila is an experienced Chief Digital and Information Officer, Partner and Non-Executive Director, with a career spanning multinational organisations, the public sector and highly regulated industries. She currently serves on the board of NHS Supply Chain and has previously served on the boards of London Ambulance Service and Companies House. Her executive career includes senior technology and digital transformation roles across financial services, oil and gas, professional services and telecommunications, including Deloitte, BP, Norton Rose Fulbright, IBM and Deutsche Bank. She brings extensive governance experience through service on Audit, Risk, Transformation and Finance Committees. She has led complex transformation programmes delivering improved customer experience, operational performance and financial outcomes. Her board contribution is shaped by a strong understanding of digital transformation centred on customer needs, data as a strategic asset and the role of innovation in improving outcomes. Sheila holds a Doctor of Business Administration from RMIT University and is a Chartered Director of the Institute of Directors.
Vicky Paramour - Trustee Director (appointed 1 April 2025)
A trained pensions actuary, Vicky has over 25 years’ experience in the pensions industry and a decade of experience as a professional trustee. She has worked with a range of schemes, both defined benefit and defined contribution, across a variety of different sectors supporting them on their individual journeys. She has rich experience in pensions which includes governance solutions, scheme design, funding and investment strategy review work, and member engagement. Prior to joining The People’s Pension Scheme, Vicky was Managing Director at the Law Debenture Pensions Trusteeship and Governance business as well as previously working in a number of consulting roles at EY, WTW and Hymans Robertson. Vicky chairs The People’s Pension Engagement & Communications Committee.
Conflict of Interest Policy
The People’s Pension Trustee adheres to our Conflict of Interest Policy
The policy ensures that the Trustee always prioritises the needs of our members when making decisions. It helps us identify and manage situations where the Trustee might have a personal interest that could influence its judgment.
This keeps our decision-making process fair and transparent, building trust with our members.
Understand our approach to conflicts of interest
Learn more about how we ensure The People’s Pension Trustee acts in the best interests of our members. See our Conflict of Interest Policy for more details.