Hon. Group Captain Sally Bridgeland FIA

She has extensive executive, advisory and non-executive experience across pensions and investment, spanning the private and public sectors.

She is the Chair of the Development Bank of Wales and is also Chair of BelleVie Care Ltd, Chair of Nest Invest Limited and a non-executive director of Intact Insurance UK Limited (formerly known as Royal & Sun Alliance Limited).

Sally’s recent career has also included roles as Chief Executive of the BP pension scheme, non-executive director and risk committee chair for the Pension Insurance Corporation, Chair of Impax Asset Management Group plc and trustee and investment committee chair for the Nuclear Liabilities Fund, NEST Corporation and the Lloyds Bank pension schemes. Additionally, she was Chair of the first local government pensions pool, Local Pensions Partnership Investments (LPPI) Limited from 2015 to 2023 and Brunel Pensions Partnership Limited.

Sally’s impact as Chair at Impax was highlighted when she won the Non-Executive Director Awards 2023 – FTSE AIM. Sally was also awarded Honorary Fellow of CFA UK in the autumn of 2023, recognising her contribution to the actuarial profession’s thinking on sustainable investment.

Having graduated with a first-class degree in mathematics from Imperial College and trained with consultancy Bacon & Woodrow as an actuary, Sally is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and has served the actuarial profession on its Council and professional committees.

Sally is a strategic advisor to Darwin Alternative Investment Limited and Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board for the Centre for Mathematical Cognition at Loughborough University. She also holds the position as Honorary Group Captain in 601 Squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, providing insights from business and finance to the senior leadership team at the Royal Air Force.

Current Chair and Non-Executive Director roles

Additional voluntary roles currently include:

• Ambassador for St Clement Danes Church
• Renter Warden for Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights
• Member of the Investment Committee for the RAF Central Fund