Serious Fraud Office Director Robert Wardle has appointed three non-executive directors to the Management Board. The new appointments, which took effect this month, are Dame Elizabeth Neville DBE QPM, Harriet Maunsell OBE and Alan Graham. They join the Director and eight executive Assistant Directors to oversee the governance and operation of the organisation in its mission to combat complex and major fraud.
SFO Director Robert Wardle said, "I am delighted to announce these appointments. They bring extensive and senior calibre experience in core areas - the City, financial regulation, law, governance and policing - and I look forward to the SFO benefiting from the perspectives and guidance they can give to me and the management board".
Harriet Maunsell OBE
Harriet Maunsell has been involved in pension law and regulation at the most senior level. Her involvement in the legal profession started with public affairs for Courtaulds Ltd. She transferred to the legal department where she qualified as a barrister and worked on insolvency, pensions and conveyancing. She moved to Lovells where, requalifying as a solicitor, she concentrated on pensions work and rose to become the first woman partner of the firm. For a period she was in charge of the Personnel Department at a time that included the challenges of a merger of firms. Her twenty-year period at Lovells ended in 1997 but she had already started board-level involvement in public service work with the Occupational Pensions Board and continued with its successor, the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority where she is currently Chairman.
Mrs Maunsell was Chairman of the Financial Fraud Information Network and remains on its steering committee; a role that has involved close liaison with the Financial Services Authority. She is a member of a group of regulators facilitated by the Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries at the University of Bath. She co-founded the Association of Pensions Lawyers and was its first Chairman. She co-authored and edited the "Guide to the Pensions Act 1995". She is active in the governance of her parish church council and local primary school and is President of the Somerville College Alumni Association.
In 1994 she was awarded the OBE for services to pensions.
Born in 1943, Mrs Maunsell is married and lives in London.
Dame Elizabeth Louise Neville DBE QPM
Elizabeth Neville's career in the police service culminated as Chief Constable of Wiltshire Constabulary; a rank held until September when her contract expired. Her professional life has been dedicated to the prevention and detection of crime. Following her degree studies she joined initially the Metropolitan Police progressing through the ranks of "the Met" and then served in Thames Valley Police, Sussex Police and Northamptonshire Police to become the first woman to hold the rank of Deputy Chief Constable. In 1997 she joined Wiltshire Constabulary, becoming at the time the youngest Chief Constable.
Throughout her career she has had senior responsibilities embracing crime and community affairs, personnel and training, complaints and discipline, IT, finance and property services and facilities.
She was the Director of the Police National Assessment Centre in charge of selection of high potential officers, is a former member of the Police Leadership Development Board, chaired the Police Service Media Advisory Group and has been active in promoting opportunities for women in the police service.
She is Vice President of the Police Mutual Assurance Society and a member of the selection board for Fulbright Fellowships for officers to research policing issues. She has chaired the UK Police Men and Women Hockey Sections and was a member of the Board of Police Sport UK. She is active in local and national charitable causes as a trustee or advisory capacity, notably to help elderly or vulnerable people at risk from burglary, victims of domestic violence and to help homeless people become employable and self sufficient.
She was awarded the Queen's Police Medal and is a Dame Commander of the British Empire.
Born in 1953, Dame Elizabeth is married with two children and two step children and lives in Wiltshire.
Alan Philip Graham
Alan Graham brings extensive management and business experience from his career in the banking sector, which culminated in senior positions within the Rothschild banking group, where he was a Main Board Director and UK Group Company Secretary.
His early career experience was gained in Rothschilds' sterling and foreign exchange trading desks in Manchester and London, from where he progressed to establish, and become Chief Executive of, the bank's bullion trading operations in New York, where he sat on the Precious Metals Committee of the New York Commodity Exchange. Upon his return to London in the early 1980's, he was highly involved in the development and marketing of Rothschilds' financial instruments and precious metals derivative products, particularly in the major gold-producing countries. He spent five years as head of Rothschilds' banking and treasury businesses in Guernsey, where he was instrumental in the introduction to the island of SWIFT, the worldwide banking transfer and settlement system. He was appointed to the Board of Rothschilds in 1988, and then moved on to re-structure and direct the bank's presence in Singapore, becoming Managing Director of N M Rothschild (Singapore) and a director of other affiliated companies in the region. More recently, his responsibilities have included regulatory compliance, corporate governance, business and fraud contingency planning and risk management.
Mr Graham was a member of the London Investment Banking Association's Administration Committee and the London Inter-Bank Fraud Group. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, the Institute of Directors and the Guild of Freemen of the City of London. He has recently been appointed a Governor of the University of Hertfordshire and holds other non-executive commercial directorships.
Mr. Graham is widely involved in the voluntary sector. He is Chairman of the Motor Neurone Disease Association of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a Trustee of WIZO UK and advises a number of other charitable organisations on governance and financial control matters. He has completed seven international city marathons, raising considerable sums for charitable causes.
Born in 1947, he is married with two children. He lives in Hertfordshire.
Notes for editors
A group photograph is attached showing from the left, Alan Graham, Dame Elizabeth Neville and Harriet Maunsell.
The Serious Fraud Office is a government department created under the Criminal Justice Act 1987. Its purpose is to contribute to the reduction of fraud and to reduce its cost to the economy, to deliver justice and the rule of law and to maintain confidence in the UK's business and financial institutions. It investigates and prosecutes complex and major cases of fraud. The Director of the SFO operates under the superintendence of the Attorney General.
The executive members of the SFO Management board are Robert Wardle - Director. Assistant Directors Peter Kiernan (Policy) , Stephen Low (Accountancy), Tricia Howse, Philip Blakebrough, Philip Lewis, Graham More and Helen Garlick (Operational Divisions) and Dave Partridge (Corporate Services).
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