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Find out more about the FCA Board and meet the members.

The Board keeps a close watch on how our business is operating and holds us accountable for the way we work. It is made up of executive and non-executive members.

Our members

Liam Coleman

Liam joined the FCA Board in November 2019.

Liam has over 30 years’ experience in the Banking industry in a variety of roles spanning retail and commercial banking and wholesale banking in his role as Treasurer at 3 banking organisations.

Liam worked as Deputy Chief Executive Officer and subsequently Chief Executive Officer at The Co-operative Bank plc from May 2016 through to July 2018, joining the bank in June 2013 as Treasurer and subsequently moving to become the Director of the Retail & Commercial Banking.

Prior to joining The Co-operative Bank plc, Liam was Deputy Group Treasurer and Group Head of Capital Management at RBS and Group Director, Treasury at Nationwide Building Society.

Earlier in his career, Liam worked at NatWest in corporate banking and at Hambros and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in corporate and structured finance.

Liam is currently Chairman of Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is an Associate of the London Institute of Banking and Finance (ACIB) and an Associate of the Association of Corporate Treasurers, he holds an MBA form Warwick Business School.

Bernadette Conroy

Bernadette joined the FCA Board in April 2020.

Bernadette holds a number of non-executive positions in the health, housing, education and property and regeneration sectors. She is currently Chair of Network Homes and a non-executive director of Community Health Partnerships (a subsidiary of the Department of Health). She is also the independent Chair of Buildings and Space Management at the University of Cambridge and a Governor of Bancroft’s School.

Prior to this, she held a number of senior roles in the financial services sector, latterly as Global Head of Strategy and Planning at HSBC’s Corporate and Investment Bank.

Bernadette has a degree in Mathematics from University of Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD.

Jeannette Lichner

Jeannette joined the FCA Board in April 2020.

Jeannette has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry in a variety of roles. Her first 20 years were in wholesale banking where she held senior roles in numerous functions including Operations, Finance, Corporate Finance and Regulatory Compliance at firms including Morgan Stanley and Bank of America.

In 2009 she moved into consulting, advising firms across industry sectors including wholesale and retail banking, insurance, and wealth and investment management on governance, risk and regulatory matters. In Jeannette’s final four years in the corporate sector she was head of the Governance, Risk and Regulatory practice at FTI Consulting and led the cross platform Financial Services group.

Since 2017 Jeannette has been working with clients as a senior advisor, governance expert and executive coach as well as working closely with several start-up companies.

She is currently Chair of Elucidate GmBh, a data-driven financial crime ratings company, and a trustee of Local Trust, a community empowering charity funded by the UK Community fund, where she chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. She is also a member of the Global Advisory Board of the McIntire School of Commerce of the University of Virginia, of which she is an alumnus.

Richard Lloyd OBE

Richard is a non-executive FCA Board member.

Richard joined the FCA Board in April 2019 and is currently Chair of Risk Committee and the Oversight Committee. He is also the Senior Independent Director.

Richard is interim Chair of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, vice chair of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, and a Council member of the Advertising Standards Authority.

Richard led Which? as executive director from 2011 to 2016. Prior to this he was chief executive of the world federation of consumer organisations, Consumers International; head of policy at the housing charity, Shelter; and worked for 2 years in No10 Downing Street as a special adviser to the Prime Minister. He was awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to the economy and consumer rights.

Alice Maynard CBE

Dr Alice Maynard joined the FCA Board in November 2019.

Alice is Director of Future Inclusion, coaching leaders and advising businesses on how to become more inclusive. Her key area of expertise lies in complex stakeholder management across industries and sectors.

She is a Board member of HMRC and Transport for London and a member of the expert challenge panel for the Williams Rail Review. She was recently a member of the Committee on Fuel Poverty, chaired a NICE guideline committee on improving the experience of adult social care users and has chaired a number of non-profit organisations including the charity Scope, from 2008-2014.

Committees

The Board has several committees to which it delegates certain functions/powers, which are:

Board minutes

The minutes of each meeting will be published within 6 weeks of each meeting (or if no meeting is subsequently held during that period, within 2 weeks of the next meeting).

They are edited in line with the exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act and do not include any information which, in our opinion, would be against the public interest.

The FCA Board jgurneyread

Our members

Liam Coleman

Bernadette Conroy

Jeannette Lichner

Richard Lloyd OBE

Alice Maynard CBE

Committees

Board minutes

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2019

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