Mrs Sarah Bates

Biography

Sarah has a long and distinguished career in the savings and investment sector and in the voluntary sector. She is currently the senior independent director of Alliance Witan plc, Chair of the Universities Superannuation Scheme‘s Investment Management subsidiary and a member of the BBC Pension Scheme’s investment Committee. She is also a mentor through Chair Mentors International and a senior advisor to Lansons PR.

She was an investment analyst, investment manager and then CEO of an institutional asset management business in the UK. She has also been a director and Chair of organisations ranging from a small youth project in south Islington to a FTSE 100 company (St James’s Place), and including the Association of Investment Companies, Merian Global Investors and the investment committees of the Cancer Research Campaign Pension fund and St Joseph’s Hospice. Sarah was Chair of the John Lewis Partnership Trust for Pensions, Polar Capital Technology Trust and The Diversity Project Charity, In addition, she was a Non-Executive Director of the Worldwide Healthcare Trust, a member of the Investment Committees of the USS Schemes and the National Heritage Memorial Fund.   She is an honorary fellow of CFA UK.

She is a co-Founder of The Diversity Project which is seeking to improve diversity and inclusion on many measures across the savings sector. She is also a non-voting external member of the Trinity Hall Statutes, Regulations, Ordinances and Policies Committee

Sarah graduated from Trinity Hall in 1980 with a BA in Law (Part 1 Philosophy) and has an MBA (technically an MSc) from the London Business School.