SPEAKER BIOGRAPHies

Alan Pickering  Chair - Plumbing Industry Pension Scheme

Alan is Chairman of BESTrustees and a Trustee of a number of Pension Schemes. These include The Plumbing Industry Pension Scheme which he chairs and the People’s Pension. He is a Trustee of the Kosovo Pensions Savings Trust and chairs the governance group of the Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme. Until February 2013, he chaired the financial literacy charity, Life Academy.  He has served as a non-executive director of The Pensions Regulator having previously been a member of the Occupational Pensions Board. He is a past Chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) and the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP). His Government sponsored report “A Simpler Way to Better Pensions” was published in July 2002.  He is a member of the Rules Committee of the British Horseracing Authority and a council member of the Racehorse Owners Association.