Advisory Council

iiTRA is supervised by an Advisory Council, whose members include

Peter Moon was until recently Chief Investment Officer of Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), having completed 17 years there. He was a member of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) Investment Committee between 1990-1995 and, more recently, an Adviser to Lincolnshire County Council, Middlesbrough Council and London Pension Fund Authority. Earlier roles included investment management positions with British Airways Pensions, National Provident, Slater Walker and Central Board of Finance of the Church of England. He is also a Director of the Scottish American Investment Company plc.

Sir Gavin Lightman was called to the Bar in 1964 and in 1987 was elected a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. He was appointed a judge of the High Court (Chancery Division) in 1994, retiring in 2008. He has also been a judge of the Administrative Court, the Restrictive Practices Court and the Competition Appeal Tribunal. He is a Fellow of University College London, a CEDR accredited mediator, former Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn and President (2009) of GEMME (Association of European Judges Committed to Mediation).

John Plender has been a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times since 1981, an assignment he combined until recently with current affairs broadcasting for the BBC and Channel Four. At the FT, he has a weekly column on economics and business and also writes for the opinion pages. After taking his degree at Oxford University John Plender joined Deloitte Plender Griffiths in the City of London in 1967, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1970. He then moved into journalism, becoming financial editor of The Economist in 1974 where he remained until taking up a governmental appointment to the Foreign Office policy planning staff in 1980. For many years he was Chairman of PIRC, the UK corporate governance agency, and Chairman of Quintain, a large property group. John Plender was the winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism in 1994. His books include That’s The Way The Money Goes (Andre Deutsch, 1982), The Square Mile, with Paul Wallace, (Hutchinson, 1984), A Stake In The Future (Nicholas Brealey, 1997) and Going Off The Rails - Global Capital And The Crisis Of Legitimacy (John Wiley, 2003).

In due course, the Council will also include representative members of iiTRA in order to reflect the views and concerns of iiTRA members.