ESG Committee

The Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Committee (formally the Corporate Responsibility Committee) is responsible for promoting a culture that emphasises and sets high standards for ESG and reviews corporate performance against those standards. The Committee will consider the impact of the Company from a responsibility perspective, taking into account the interests of shareholders, employees, communities, suppliers and regulators.

> ESG Committee - Terms of Reference (PDF)

 

  • Lynne Peacock

    Committee Chair

    Lynne Peacock

    Committee Chair

    Appointed to the Board

    1 November 2019

    Skills and experience

    • Significant board and executive experience, having served as the CEO of National Australia Bank Europe Limited (NAB) and the CEO of Woolwich plc. Lynne was formerly a Non-Executive Director at TSB Banking Group plc and its subsidiary TSB Bank plc, Royal London Group, Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Scottish Water, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc and Nationwide Building Society.
    • Transactional experience gained through her involvement in Woolwich plc’s IPO and FTSE 100 listing and its sale to Barclays, the disinvestment of NAB’s Irish operations and the integration of Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks.

    Significant external appointments

    Senior Independent Director of Serco Group plc

  • Maria da Cunha

    Committee member

    Maria da Cunha

    Committee member

    Appointed to the Board 

    22 May 2019

    Skills and experience

    • Extensive experience in industrial relations, transformation programmes and employee engagement gained through her 18-year career at British Airways, where Maria was the Director of People, Legal and Government and Industry Affairs, and the Director of People and Legal. Maria was formerly a Non-Executive Director of De La Rue plc.
    • Qualified solicitor with significant risk, compliance and legal knowledge, having held various positions with Hogan Lovells, Lloyds of London and Law College of Europe.

    Significant external appointments

    Panel Member of the Competition and Markets Authority

  • Baroness Hogg

    Committee member

    Baroness Hogg

    Committee member

    Appointed to the Board

    1 October 2019

    Skills and experience

    • Extensive board and governance experience, having served as Chair of 3i Group plc and as a Non-Executive Director of several companies, including BG Group and GKN plc. Baroness Hogg won the Sunday Times Lifetime Achievement Award for Non-Executive Directors in 2017.
    • Significant political and regulatory experience through her former roles as Lead Independent Non-Executive Director of HM Treasury, Chair of the Financial Reporting Council and Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit under John Major. She was granted a life peerage in 1995 and sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

    Significant external appointments

    None

     

  • Shashi Verma

    Committee member

    Shashi Verma

    Committee member

    Appointed to the Board

    29 September 2021

    Skills and experience 

    • Proven business leader with extensive experience in developing innovative technology. Shashi is currently the Director of Strategy and Chief Technology Officer at Transport for London (TfL), a role in which he is responsible for the operation of TfL’s revenue collection system. He also led the development and implementation of contactless payments on TfL’s systems.
    • Significant customer service experience gained through his responsibility for integrating TfL’s customer-facing activities and for running its customer service operations.

    Significant external appointments

    None

  • Ingrid Ebner

    Committee member

    Ingrid Ebner

    Committee member

    Appointed to the Board

    3 June 2024

    Skills and experience

    • Extensive logistics and supply chain experience, including the optimising and automation of systems, and more recently oversaw the development of a global contract logistics capability and led the design and implementation of a global organisation structure. Ingrid is Chief Supply Chain Officer at C&A Mode GmbH & Co. KG.
    • Previously, Ingrid spent 21 years at Amazon within their divisions across Europe, in various supply chain roles including Director of Supply Chain Operations Continental Europe where she was responsible for building the AMXL end to end operations organisation. More recently, Ingrid was Vice President, Global Fulfilled by Maersk Standards and Regional Delivery IMEA & LAM of A.P Moller-Maersk, and reported to the Executive Committee.

    Significant external appointments

    None