PwC Building Trust Awards

Monica Chadha serves on the boards of, or as an adviser to several privately held companies in the entertainment and technology sectors.

Monica is a Non-Executive Director of the British Film Institute; and a Board Advisor to OC Creative; Digital Entertainment Group International (DEGI); British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE); and the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC). She is a member of the British Screen Forum and a voting member of BAFTA.

Monica started her career at Technicolor Distribution in supply chain management and was appointed to the Board of the British Video Association aged 24. She became Production Director of Prism Leisure Corporation PLC aged 25. Since then, she has held several roles including CEO of MyMovies.Net; Non-Executive Director of Obviously Creative; Chair of the British Independent Film Awards Advisory Board; a member of the BAFTA Digital Communications Board; Advisor to Marlow Film Studios; a member of the Bias in AI Research Group at Durham University; and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for AI; and Vice Chair of Queen Mary University of London.

In 2019 she was named as one of the top 50 Women to Watch in the UK Female FTSE Board Report.

Monica is a faculty member of the Financial Times Board Director Programme and a confidential thinking partner and coach for senior executives in different industries and constructs.  

Charles Henderson is a participant of CRUF UK. He is a chartered accountant who takes an active interest in corporate reporting, including auditing, corporate governance and ESG from an investor perspective. He is chairman, member of, and policy team member of the UK Shareholders' Association, an associate of Falcon Windsor and a member of the Pre-emption Group. He retired from Invesco after 25 years at the end of May 2019.

Sue Milton sits on a number of boards and committees covering non-executive and executive roles. She has both a broad and deep interest in financial reporting though being on the board of the UK Shareholders’ Association (UKSA) and as a participant of the Corporate Reporting Users’ Forum (CRUF) UK.

Sue is a governance specialist, covering corporate and IT governance. Sue advises governments and organisations on how to increase corporate effectiveness and is currently involved in the UK Government’s governance, audit, and digital reforms, focusing on our reliance on information technology, on company directors taking a more proactive and granular approach to risk and control management, and on the need to integrate and demonstrate ESG needs within the strategy and culture of the organisation.

Sarah joined the SMF, a leading UK social mobility charity, in January 2020 from the Charity Commission, where she had been Executive Director for Strategy, Policy and Communications since 2014. Her background is in corporate communications and policy, and before joining the Commission as head of corporate affairs she worked in the private sector, including roles with Nationwide Building Society and in public affairs consultancy.

Her non-executive experience includes membership of the Charity Tax Commission and board roles at Endometriosis UK, the Professional Association of Childcare and Early Years, and Womankind Worldwide. She is deputy Chair of ACEVO, the membership body for charity leaders, a board member of the Grenfell Foundation, and a panel member for the King's Awards for Enterprise – Promoting Opportunity. From 2021-23 she was a member of the City of London taskforce on socio-economic diversity in financial and professional services.

Jeremy Stuber is a Partner at Doric Capital Partners. He is active in international accounting standard-setting, currently serving as Chair of the Corporate Reporting Users' Forum (CRUF) UK and as a Member of the IFRS Advisory Council. He previously served as Co-Chair of the IFRS Capital Markets Advisory Committee and was a Member of EFRAG’s Intangibles and Connectivity panels. His professional background includes more than two decades as a Global Equity Analyst at Newton Investment Management, preceded by a period in management consulting with Cap Gemini. He holds MA and MEng degrees from the University of Cambridge and qualified as a Chartered Accountant while training at Ernst & Young.

Liz Williams MBE is the founding Chief Executive of FutureDotNow, a business coalition focused on closing the digital skills gap for working age adults. Previously she led BT Group’s digital and social inclusion strategies, advising the Chair, CEO and Board on corporate policy and delivering cross-sector collaborations with government, civil society and other leading businesses that impacted millions of lives.

She is Group Chair of Good Things Foundation, a social change charity helping people improve their lives through digital. She is the deputy-chair of the Government’s Digital Skills Council and previously served as a Social Mobility Commissioner leading on digital and the future of work.

Liz is a social entrepreneur and long-standing campaigner for digital equity. Her work to advance digital inclusion and social mobility across the UK led to her being awarded an MBE in 2019. In 2025, she was inducted into the Computer Weekly Hall of Fame for her lifetime contribution to the UK tech sector, digital inclusion and social mobility, and she was named in the 2026 Social Mobility List.

Claire has been a key player in the Voluntary, Charity and Social Enterprise movement since the 1980's and is the national Crown Representative for the VCSE Sector with the remit of supporting the sector to access government contracts.

Claire nationally and internationally is known for her work in the sector and for ten years chaired Social Enterprise UK. She worked with government and leaders from the sector to create the first strategy for the Social Enterprise movement. She has ensured that we had a voice within Westminster and Whitehall, this included working with the teams to introduce the Social Value Act which is now embedded into many local government frameworks and in the national Crown Commercial procurement service. After stepping down as chair of SEUK Claire was asked and accepted to become a patron to the organisation.

Claire led the highly successful Blackburne House Group, until she retired in July 2020. Blackburne House offers an outstanding educational offer to women alongside running its award-winning School for Social Entrepreneurship and highly successful social enterprises.

Claire has received many awards for her role within the sector, which includes an MBE, OBE and the Queens Lifetime achievement award for Enterprise promotion. Claire was once again honoured in the 2020 New Year’s honours list with a CBE.

Iain leads ICAEW’s Policy, Communications and Influence division. He is responsible for shaping and influencing policy, and for engaging with key external stakeholders at the highest levels. Since joining ICAEW in April 2018, he has played a key role in strengthening the organisation’s influence on UK economic and business policy, alongside leading its external communications strategy. From 2024 to 2026 he served as Business Co-Chair of the Professional & Business Services Council, working with government to support one of the UK’s priority growth sectors within the Industrial Strategy.

Iain is a Chartered Accountant, who began his career at Deloitte & Touche before serving as MP for Hartlepool from 2004 to 2017. During this time, he held ministerial roles in housing, planning and education, and later chaired the Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy Select Committee, leading high-profile inquiries into major corporate and employment practices.

Sawan is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the firm’s Stewardship strategy, integrating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors into the investment process, and managing Evenlode’s voting and engagement activities. He previously worked as an analyst in the ESG teams at Schroders and Federated Hermes EOS.

Kate is a member of the National Audit Office's (NAO) Executive Team and is the Executive Director responsible for the NAO’s financial audit work.

A chartered accountant, Kate has many years of experience auditing a wide range of public sector bodies.

Kate held senior management positions in finance and operations while working on secondment at the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority and has also served on the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales's Council and Board.

An experienced charity trustee, Kate is currently an independent member of the Finance Committee of The Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

NED and Audit Committee Chair at Invesco Asia Dragon Trust Plc. and Chair of the Board of The Golden Charter Trust.

Myriam Madden is a non-executive director, typically serving as Chair of the Board or Chair of the Audit committee. Myriam has operated at board level across a range of regulated sectors, including as a board member of Ofgem, following a successful international and multi-sectoral career as a finance executive leading transformation programmes.

Highlights in the past have included roles as a board member of the International Ethical Standards Board for Accountants, the International Federation of Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts. Myriam was a global President and Chairman of CIMA and included in Cranfield University's 100 Women to Watch.

Over the past decade or so, Rachel Lomax has served as a non executive director on many boards, public, private and not for profit, including: HSBC holdings, Heathrow Airport, Serco, Resolution Life, the British Council, Royal National Theatre, Imperial College, and think tanks such as Breugel, the IFS and Chatham House. A former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, she was previously Permanent Secretary of several government departments, following an early career as a Treasury economist.

Vikki is Deputy Director of Finance at HM Treasury and Acting Treasury Accountant. She previously led the Treasury’s main programme of improvement to the quality of financial reporting in the public sector reporting directly to Parliament and had responsibility for developing financial reporting policy for central government and aligning it with the rest of the public sector. She has represented the UK on this area at various European and world forums and supported other governments in their approach to financial reporting. Vikki spent 18 months at the Department of Health and Social Care taking forward its Finance Transformation Programme as the department transitioned from its pandemic response.

Vikki has been a Non-Executive member of the Audit Risk and Assurance Committee at the Housing Ombudsman Service. She is a chartered accountant and was a Senior Audit Manager at the National Audit Office working with clients from right across government.

Ben is a senior Portfolio Manager of Global Equities at RBC Global Asset Management. The Global Equities team has a deep interest in stewardship, sustainability, and long-term investment matters. Ben sits as Chair of a Responsible Investment Advisory committee, advising a leading sustainable UK investment trust owned by Royal London Asset Management. In advisory capacities, Ben sat on the Investor Advisory Group to the UK’s Financial Reporting Council and on the Management Commentary Advisory group to the IASB, International Accounting Standards Board. Ben is also a playwright and podcaster and is a Trustee, for a charitable theatre company, and charitable mathematical research lab.