Jason Wright, Society Secretary at Nationwide. Appointed in March 2021, with over 25 years’ experience in banking and financial services, Jason has previously worked for Royal Bank of Canada, Santander, and Barclays. As a Company Secretary, Jason has supported Chairs with board succession, board skills assessments, board composition, and building and running high-performing secretariat teams. He considers his primary role to be supporting the board and ensuring his directors have the best quality information and environment to make the best decisions.

Karen has dedicated her work to the practical aspects of technology governance, strategy, and policy and how it intersects with corporate governance. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council and a WEF Global Innovator, a member of McKinsey’s External Technology Council, an advisor to the Business Roundtable, and a technology expert on the California Supreme Court’s Blue-Ribbon Commission on the Future of the Bar Exam.

Moya Hayhurst is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute with over 25 years of corporate governance experience across multiple industries including mining, financial services and insurance. She has a proven track record of leveraging technology to ensure governance functions efficiently meet the needs of the business. Her recent experience includes navigating Structural Reform at Barclays Plc, building agile teams at Royal London and leading the governance transformation at Canopius. She is currently part of the Centre for AI in Board Effectiveness (CAIBE) research team, whose mission is to progress AI’s role in board effectiveness and help board ecosystems adapt.

Katja is a law professor at Goethe-University, affiliated professor at SciencesPo, Paris, and visiting faculty at Fordham Law School, NYC. She has held visiting positions at Sorbonne; WU Vienna; LSE; Columbia, Fordham and PennLaw School and will join NYU Law Global Faculty in 2026. She holds supervisory board positions at BaFin, Germany, and IEP, Paris, and was a supervisory board member at Postbank, Germany.

Sir John Tusa has served on the boards of some of the most iconic cultural institutions in the UK. Sir John was the presenter of BBC’s Newsnight and the Managing Director of the BBC World Service. He was also the Managing Director of the Barbican Arts Centre and served on the boards of Cultural Institutions such as the British Museum.