Our trustees

Hilary Wiseman (Chair)

Hilary is Managing Director of Wiseman Consulting Limited and was, until her early retirement in June 2005, Head of Diversity UK & Europe for HSBC Bank plc, based at their global headquarters in London.  She is a trustee of Age UK, the charity created by the merger of Help the Aged and Age Concern.

Hilary is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has an MSc in Human Resource Management. She is a JP.  She is also a former Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy Reserve.

Ros Altmann

Ros is an independent policy adviser on investment, pensions and retirement policy. She has an Economics Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard and after an early academic career researching pensions, she worked in the City managing pension funds, as Head of Equities at Chase Manhattan, Director of Rothschild’s and NatWest Investments. She is also a non-executive director and governor of the London School of Economics.

Keith Faulkner CBE FRSA

Keith Faulkner is Chairman of Working Links, an innovative public/private/voluntary sector joint venture company that supports social and economic community development through improved access to employment and skills development.  Keith has been associated with Working Links since its inception in 1999, was Managing Director between 2003 and 2008 and was, prior to that, a director of Manpower Plc where he built up his extensive experience of HR, industrial relations and labour market issues.

He is also sits on the London Skills and Employment Board and the Public Services Strategy Board of the CBI, is a Member of the Council for Administration and Chair of the charity, Training for Life.  Past activities include two and a half years as Chairman of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, chairing working parties on employment issues for both the CBI and RSA (of which he is a Fellow) and sitting on two New Deal working groups (Lone Parents and Retention).

Yvonne Perry

Yvonne has extensive employment relations and change management experience in self-financing, not-for-profit and membership organisations.  She has written on employment issues.

She was a policy specialist and board member of the Industrial Society (now the Work Foundation), where she led the policy work and campaigning on employment legislation and pensions.  She helped set up and ran the Employee Communication Unit at the CBI which advised CBI members on better employee communication and consultation.

Yvonne has an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice and is currently a director of Ethical Investment Research & Information Services (EIRIS).