Chris Jones

Chris Jones was appointed Independent Non-Executive Director on 30 March 2015.

Chris Jones was a partner at PwC from 1989 to 2014. He focused on the financial services industry from the mid-1980s and was a Senior Audit Partner specialising in the audit of banks and other financial services companies. He also led PwC’s EMEA Financial Services practice and was a member of their Financial Services global leadership team.

Chris is a past president of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Chris is also Audit and Risk Committee member of the Wellcome Trust, since 1 September 2016, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Association of Corporate Treasurers, since 2010, Investment Trustee of the Civil Service Benevolent Fund, since 2015 and Independent Non-Executive Director of Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited since 1 May 2020.

Chris has been a member of the Audit Committee since 30 March 2015 and Chair since 30 June 2015, the Remuneration Committee since 1 September 2015, the Risk Committee since 30 March 2015 and the Responsible Banking Committee since 1 November 2020. He was appointed as Chair of the Santander UK Group Holdings plc Remuneration Committee on 28 April 2020. Chris is also Santander UK’s Whistleblowers’ Champion.