Chris Hitchen

Chris is an actuary with over 35 years of experience in investing assets to meet long-term liabilities.

As well as the Nuclear Liabilities Fund, he chairs the Border to Coast Pensions Partnership, a Leeds-based asset management company specialising in local authority pension funds, and chairs the Investment Committee of Nest, a government-sponsored pension scheme with 11 million members. He also sits on the Investment Committee of the Scott Trust, which backs the Guardian and Observer newspapers, and chairs a start-up company, the Pension SuperFund.

Chris is a former Chair of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association and in 2012 was appointed by BEIS as an advisor to Professor John Kay for his review of short-termism in the UK stock market. For almost 20 years, Chris led Railpen, the £30 billion industry-wide pension scheme for the UK rail industry.