Joanne Segars
LGPS CentralChair of the Board of Directors
Joanne has over 30 years in the pensions and investment sector and is an experienced chair and non-executive director. She was appointed as the first Chair of LGPS Central Limited in May 2017. She became the chair of NOW: Pensions in 2019, having been appointed to the Board in 2017. Joanne is also a member of the Independent Governance Committee at Legal and General and is a member of the pension Fund Governing Board at CERN. She has been chair of the Joint Expert Panel on the USS and a pensions expert to the review of TfL’s pension arrangements. She was the Chief Executive of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) until June 2017 having been its first Policy Director. She joined the organisation from the Association of British Insurers where she was Head of Pensions and Savings and held the pensions brief at the Trades Union Congress for 13 years, having started her career as a pensions researcher and journalist at Incomes Data Services. She was Chair of the Environment Agency Pension Fund (EAPF) from 2017-2019. Joanne was a Board member of Pensions Europe, the EU trade association for pensions, from 2010 – 2017 and its Chair from 2012 – 2015. She was a founding governor of the Pensions Policy Institute. Joanne has a degree in economics from John Moores University and an MA in Industrial Relations from the University of Warwick. She was awarded the OBE for services to pensions in the 2003 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
