Phyllis Macfarlane Named NatCen Trustee

In the UK, former GfK NOP MD and current MRS Chair Phyllis Macfarlane has joined social research organisation NatCen as a Trustee on its Board. Pensions consultant Mark Duke also joins, and a third new Trustee is expected to be announced over the coming weeks.

NatCen (the National Centre for Social Research) carries out research into all areas of social policy, including health, crime, education, employment, travel, social attitudes and families. Macfarlane (pictured) has served as Global Training Manager at GfK UK and spent several years delivering, and expanding the provision of market research education and training in Africa and Asia. She has won both the MRS Silver Medal and, in 2008 and 2018, the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research Excellence Award.

Duke is a Consultant and former MD of advisory, broking and solutions company Willis Towers Watson. He was previously Chair of both the Pension Committee of the Association of Consulting Actuaries and the Actuarial Committee of the Society of Pension Professionals, and brings extensive actuarial skills, as well as experience developing pension solutions and improved pension scheme governance.

NatCen's Chair of Trustees, Professor Sir Robert Burgess, comments: 'These new Trustees are welcome additions and will strengthen the NatCen Board in exciting times for the organisation. Our charitable mission is to conduct research that works for society; the knowledge and experience these new Trustees bring will ensure we continue to deliver on this objective'.

Web site: www.natcen.ac.uk .

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