Who We Are: Board Of Trustees
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Claer Barrett
Trustee
Claer Barrett is a multi-award-winning financial journalist, broadcaster and commentator (follow @Claerb on social media). She presents the weekly Financial Times Money Clinic podcast, speaking to listeners about their real-life money dilemmas, and writes a Saturday money column in the Weekend FT.
Veronica A Kan-Dapaah
Trustee
Veronica A Kan-Dapaah is Head of Newsroom Diversity, Global Head of Video, and Executive Editor at the Financial Times. She joined the FT in 2011 from CNBC, where she was an executive producer.
Patrick Jenkins
Trustee
Patrick Jenkins has been Deputy Editor of the Financial Times since January 2020. Before that, he spent 20 years at the FT in a range of roles—from personal finance reporter to financial editor.
Stephen Jones
Trustee
Stephen has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services sector in a range of operating, financial and strategic roles across retail and wholesale activities in the UK, EMEA and North America at Santander, Barclays, Citigroup and Schroders, and as a Senior Adviser in the private equity industry. Between 2017 and 2020 he was the first Chief Executive of UK Finance, the trade association for the UK banking and payments industry.
Nick Fuller MBE
Trustee
Nick Fuller is an education specialist with over 30 years’ experience creating transformational education programmes in the UK and internationally. He founded EdComs, a leading educational communications company, and later became International President of EVERFI. Nick is particularly interested in programmes that develop critical life skills, including financial literacy, in young people.
Lucy Kellaway
Trustee
Lucy Kellaway spent over three decades as a columnist on the FT before leaving to co-found Now Teach, a charity to encourage older professionals to retrain as teachers in challenging schools. She teaches economics at a school in Tower Hamlets.
Finola McDonnell
Trustee
Finola McDonnell is the chief marketing and communications officer at the Financial Times. She started her career in adult literacy and sees the parallel with financial literacy as a means to have a better and more secure life.
Hannah Sarney
Trustee
Hannah Sarney is the Head of Audience Engagement and an Executive Editor at the Financial Times. She works as an advocate for the future of newsrooms, pushing for innovations that will improve reach, relevance and genuine engagement with broad audiences.
Andreas Utermann
Trustee
Andreas Utermann is a British/German businessman, who was elected to the Board of Directors at Vontobel Holding AG and Bank Vontobel AG in April 2021 and will be proposed as Chairman in April 2022. Andreas was CEO and previously Co-Head of AllianzGI, a global asset manager within Allianz’s asset management division, from 2012 to the end of 2019.