Robert Branagh

Robert is a pensions professional with an extensive business background, largely in outsourcing and financial services. He has worked for trustee, not for profit, private equity owned, and insurance businesses over the last 30 years. The vast majority of his career has been helping significant numbers of pension scheme members and savers navigate the world of pensions and retirement saving.

With extensive experience both as an executive and non-executive within central government including the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Defence he also brings recent local government experience as the immediate past CEO of the £8bn London Pension Fund Authority. Robert helped transition the Office of the Paymaster General from a public to a private sector outsourcing business in the late 1990s and worked with the Cabinet Office to establish the joint venture which became MyCSP. He has also managed the back office or pension functions for several large pension schemes, including the NHS, Civil Service, Royal Mail Statutory scheme, and the Railways Pension Scheme and until 2024, chaired the Armed Forces Pensions Board.

Robert is also a Trustee of the Creative Pensions Trust Mastertrust, a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and an Advisory Board member of the Clean Growth Fund. He is a frequent chair, contributor or speaker at pensions and employee benefits events, and regularly contributes to the UK pensions industry press on ESG, governance or helping members.

He is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute and has been both Chair and President during his service there. He is also an Accredited Professional Trustee with a real passion for good member outcomes.