Claire Ighodaro CBE is the Remuneration Committee Chair of Pennon Group PLC and a Leadership Council Member of TheCityUK. Her previous board roles include Board Chair of AXA XL – UK Entities, Audit Committee Chair of Lloyd’s of London, Flood Re, UK Trade & Investment, and the Open University, Governance Committee Chair of Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch International, and Board Member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants. She was a senior executive at BT PLC, working in the UK and Germany, and was the first female President of CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants).
Claire is a volunteer mentor on both executive and young people’s development programmes and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Open University and a CBE, by HM the Queen, for services to business.