Mark Hoban

Mark Hoban joined the Board of Commissioners in December 2018 and was appointed as Chair in April 2020.

Mark has a successful career at the interface of business, politics and public policy.

A Chartered Accountant, Mark worked for PwC before being elected as MP for Fareham in 2001. Between 2010 and 2012, Mark served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, where he had responsibility for the UK Government’s financial services policy and its work on the post crisis reforms to financial regulation. He also had day to day responsibility for the Government’s policy for EU financial services regulation.

After Mark retired from Parliament in 2015, he embarked on a portfolio career. He is the Chair of Flood Re, a specialist reinsurer. In November 2020 Mark was appointed as chair of Pay UK, which runs the UK interbank retail payment systems BACS and FPS. Mark also chairs the Financial Service Skills Commission, which facilitates sector wide up-skilling and re-skilling.

In addition, he sits on PwC’s Advisory Council and the Bank of England’s Enforcement Decision Making Committee.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (1982 — 1985)

Companies

• Chair Pay.UK (2020)
• Chair Jersey Financial Services Commission (2020)
• Chair Financial Services Skills Commission (2020)
• Commissioner Jersey Financial Services Commission (2018)
• Member - Enforcement Decision Making Committee Bank of England (2018)
• Advisory Council Member PwC UK (2016)
• Visiting Professor St Mary's University, Twickenham, London (2016)
• Governor Fareham College (2016)
• Senior Advisor PwC UK (2015)

Skills

The most important

• Risk Management
• Political Campaigns
• Management

Other

Asset Management, Policy, European Union, Stakeholder Management, Finance, Governance, Business Strategy, Banking, Government, Politics, Financial Services, Public Policy, Strategy