Railpen Investments - Head of Corporate Governance
http://www.railwaypensions.co.uk/
United Kingdom (London)
Portfolio
Frank Curtiss is Head of Corporate Governance at rpmi RAILPEN Investments, the investment management and monitoring arm of the Railways Pension Trustee Company, the trustee of railway industry pension funds in Great Britain. He joined the company in 1990 and has been responsible for corporate governance since 1997. His main focus is on corporate governance and shareholder engagement with investee companies and others.
During his career, he has worked in both the private and public sectors. Prior to 1990, he worked in the UK university sector as an accountant. He started his career in finance as a trainee with Williams & Glyn’s Bank in 1982 on graduating from University College London with a Bachelor’s degree in English.
He is a member of the UK Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and was appointed to the ICSA Council in May 2010. He also acts as an honorary adviser to the ICSA on corporate governance, pensions and other issues, and as a trustee of its educational and welfare charities. He has also served on the judging panel of the ICSA Hermes Transparency in Governance Awards in 2009.
Frank has been a member of the International Corporate Governance Network since 1998. He was elected to the ICGN Board in July 2009 and has chaired its Non-Financial Business Reporting Sub-Committee since 2005 which drafted the ICGN Statement and Guidance on Non-financial Business Reporting published in December 2008.
He represents Railpen on the National Association of Pension Fund’s Shareholder Affairs Committee and other UK corporate governance industry bodies including the Corporate Governance Forum and the Responsible Investors Network and has helped draft various guidance notes on best practice and disclosure on various topics including executive compensation and socially responsible investment. He is also current chair of the Japan Focus Group.
He is also currently a member of the Advisory Council of the Occupational Pensions Defence Union and served as a founding member of the original steering group. He is chairman of the trustees of the NABC - Clubs for Young People Pension Scheme, the staff pension scheme of a UK-based charity. He also has a voluntary role in clinical and research governance in the UK National Health Service as a lay member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square in London.