Catherine Howarth is Chief Executive of FairPensions, a UK-based NGO promoting responsible investment by institutional investors. FairPensions advocates for greater transparency and accountability to the millions of people whose savings are managed by investment professionals. The organisation’s research and policy recommendations on fiduciary obligation have been recognised as a key contribution.
Catherine is a member-nominated trustee of The Pensions Trust, a multi-employer pension scheme serving the UK's not-for-profit sector. Catherine serves on the Investment committee.
Catherine holds a Masters Degree from the London School of Economics in Industrial Relations and a First Class Bachelors Degree from Oxford University in Modern History.
In June 2011 Catherine was named a 'Rising Star of Corporate Governance' by Yale University's, Millstein Center. In late 2010, Pensions Insight magazine featured her as one of the 50 most influential people in UK pensions and in May 2011 Investment and Pensions Europe called her one of the 'top ten women in pensions'.
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