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Chris Pond (Chair) is also Chair of the Lending Standards Board and the Equity
Release Council Standards Board and is an independent director with Current
Account Switch Service (part of Pay.UK) and of Cape Claims Services, an asbestos
compensation scheme. Chris is also a trustee of the Money and Mental Health
Policy institute (for which he chairs the Mental Health and Income Commission)
and is a member of the Treasury FinTech Development Panel. Chris has in the past
been CEO of two national charities (Low Pay Unit and Gingerbread) and chair or
trustee of many others, most recently The Money Charity and GambleAware. He was
Member of Parliament for Gravesham between 1997 and 2005, serving as Work and
Pensions Minister and as a ministerial aide in the Treasury. Sian Williams VICE
CHAIR SIAN WILLIAMS Sian Williams is Head of National Services at Toynbee Hall
in London’s East End. Sian has been responsible for Toynbee Hall’s local and
national financial inclusion programmes since October 2009, including Transact
(the UK’s national forum for financial inclusion), financial inclusion training,
research, evaluation and strategic consultancy. Sian takes a whole systems
approach to financial well-being, supporting organisations to develop policies
and practice which make it easier for people to make the most of their money.
She has co-led the Financially Inclusive Tower Hamlets programme, which adopts
this environmental approach within one of the UK’s most deprived communities.
Sian’s team have also created a ground-breaking needs and impact digital
measurement tool for financial health, the MAP Tool, to fill the gaps around
knowing “what works” in financial health interventions. Sian provides advice on
financial inclusion to financial services providers, and is a member of advisory
groups for the Payments Council, the LINK Scheme, the BBA, DWP, HMT and the Big
Lottery. Sian is also a member of the new PSR Panel, and a trustee for the Money
Advice Trust.
