The Pensions Regulator

Determinations

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About the determinations panel

John Scampion CBE

Chair of the Audit Committee of the Healthcare Commission and member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel. 

Was Commissioner for Immigration Services from 2000 to 2005. Social Fund Commissioner for Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1995 to 2000. He was the clerk and chief executive of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council from 1977 to 1995. John qualified as a solicitor in 1966.

Duncan Campbell

An Opra board member from 2001 to 2005 and in 2005 was appointed to the chair of the disciplinary sub-committee of the Banking Code Standards Board. He has been a legal adviser at the CBI since 2002 and is also a mediator with CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution). From 1970 to 1999 he was a lawyer with IBM where he was General Counsel and Company Secretary and on the management board of IBM UK.

Olivia Dickson

A non-executive director and chairman of the Risk and Compliance Committee of Aon Limited and a non-executive director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Invista Real Estate Investment Management Holdings plc. Olivia is also a member of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Services Authority. Previously Olivia was a managing director at JP Morgan, where she held a number of senior roles including head of european derivatives brokerage, before becoming a senior adviser to the Financial Services Authority. While at JP Morgan, she was a non-executive director and chair of the Audit Committee of the London International Financial Futures Exchange. Olivia is a Sloan Fellow of the London Business School.

Geoffrey Fitchew

Currently chairman of the Insolvency Practices Council. Former chairman of the Building Society Commission from 1994 to 2001. He was also former European Commission director general for financial institutions and company law from 1986 to 1993 and spent 22 years as a civil servant at the Treasury, working mainly on international and European financial and budgetary questions.

Dianne Hayter

Dianne is Chair of the Property Services Board and of the Consumer Panel of the Bar Standards Board.  She is also a member of the Insolvency Practices Council, the Financial Reporting Council's Board for Actuarial Standards and the Labour Party's National Executive Committee.  She has been vice chairman of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, and a board member of the National Consumer Council and the National Patient Safety Agency.

Michael Maunsell

Trained as a commercial solicitor and his career was with the City firm, Lovell White Durrant (now Lovells). He became Managing Partner in 1993 and retired in 1997. He was Secretary and Senior Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law until 2000.  Since then he has been involved with a number of charities including being voluntary administrator of the City Solicitors' Educational Trust (2000-08) and since 2008 chairman of the Bishopsgate Institute.

Suzanne McCarthy

Currently the UK's Immigration Services Commissioner. Prior to this Suzanne was chief executive of the Human Fertilisation Authority (1996 to 2000) and thereafter chief executive of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (2000 to 2004).

Suzanne is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of London and a non-executive director of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Public Guardian Board.  She is also a member of the British and Irish Ombudsman Association's Executive Council and the Honorary Chairman of the European Forum of Deposit Insurers.

Suzanne has held a variety of positions within central Whitehall. Prior to joining the civil service, Suzanne worked as a solicitor in private practice and taught law at Manchester University.

Daniel Taylor

Formerly Company solicitor for the News International Newspapers Ltd, the UK's largest national newspaper group, where he specialised in media law and pre-publication issues. Daniel is a former chairman of trustees of three pension funds at News International, and has chaired both defined benefit and defined contribution schemes. He is now a partner in the law firm of Taylor Hampton Solicitors LLP where he specialises in media law, commercial litigation and pension-related disputes.

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