Director of Corporate Governance and Chief of Staff

Lauren is the Director of Corporate Governance and Chief of Staff. Her portfolio includes governance, risk, assurance, communications and engagement. Lauren joined the Trust in 2019.
 
Prior to this, Lauren’s career was in banking and finance industry, where she most recently led departments to design and deliver innovative risk and governance solutions to industry-wide challenges. Lauren has also led teams to support turnaround of companies, led on retail customer strategy initiatives and was Chief of Staff to the Chief Risk Officer. 
 
Currently as part of Lauren’s wider portfolio, she is a Non-Executive Director and Trustee of Cardiff & Vale Citizens Advice and also a Governor of Holy Family RC Primary School.
 
Lauren read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, where she won the Lynda Grier Prize for Economics.
 
She loves a challenge and in recent years has climbed Kilimanjaro and completed five half-marathons in five days along the Great Wall of China.
 
Lauren has two little girls, Mari and Gwen. Outside of work, she most of all enjoys spending time with them – with any additional on reading, running and adventures.