Review team

The review was led by Andrew Young, who is a consulting actuary at the Government Actuary's Department.

He currently also works for The Pensions Regulator, giving actuarial advice in relation to corporate transactions, and at the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), supporting the development of actuarial functions at the PPF. Immediately before that he was seconded to the DWP and designed the structure of the PPF.

He has been a member of the Actuarial Profession's Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Pensions Board and Chairman of their Technical and Research Committee. He is also a past-chair of the International Actuarial Association Social Security Committee.

Review team external experts

Alan Higham was most recently a Non-Executive Director of Higham Dunnett Shaw (HDS).

Ashok Gupta is a director on the Board of Pearl Group.

Jane Samsworth is a partner at the international law firm Lovells.

Chris Martin is Managing Director at Independent Trustee Services (ITS) Limited.

Dr David Blake is Professor of Pension Economics at Cass Business School, which is part of City University London, and Director of the Pensions Institute.

Angela Hills is an administrator for Mercers Human Resource Consulting Limited.

Martin Clarke is the Interim Director of Financial Risk at the Pension Protection Fund.