A list of Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association chairs

Jonathan Stapleton
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The list of the most recent chairs of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) – the body known as the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) up to 2015 – is as follows.

The organisation was formed in 1923 as the Association of Superannuation & Pension Funds, becoming the NAPF in 1967.

Chairs since 1991 are below:

2021-present - Emma Douglas

2017-2021 - Richard Butcher

2015-2017 - Lesley Williams

2013-2015 - Ruston Smith

2011-2013 - Mark Hyde Harrison

2009-2011 - Lindsay Tomlinson

2007-2009 - Chris Hitchen

2005-2007 - Robin Ellison

2003-2005 - Terry Faulkner

2001-2003 - Peter Thompson

1999-2001 - Alan Pickering

1997-1999 - Peter Murray

1995-1997 - Tom Ross

1993-1995 - Ron Amy

1991-1993 - Brian MacMahon

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