Alan Pickering is President of BESTrustees and a Trustee of a number of pension schemes. He has served as a non-executive director of The Pensions Regulator having previously been a member of the Occupational Pensions Board. Alan is a past Chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), now known as the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) and the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP). His Government sponsored report “A Simpler Way to Better Pensions” was published in July 2002.