Vanessa Jones

Vanessa Jones has worked as an in-house lawyer and company secretary in the listed sector in the UK and undertaken public policy work before establishing her own consultancy practice in 2012. She is a qualified Barrister (1984) and Chartered Secretary (1997) and has worked both in the FTSE listed sector (Forward Trust Group plc; De La Rue plc; Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc; Prudential plc; Queens Moat Houses plc; Barclays plc) and in the private company sector (Yardley of London) across both in-house legal and company secretarial roles. Prior to establishing her own consultancy she was the Head of Corporate Governance at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) in the UK. She has been a sessional lecturer at London South Bank University lecturing on the Masters degree in Corporate Governance programme teaching Corporate Secretarial Practice and Corporate Governance modules. She is the current Corporate Governance Examiner at the Governance Institute: Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) and regularly speaks at ICSA conferences and events on board and committee support and corporate governance issues. She has a keen interest in all company law developments, corporate governance, disclosure and transparency, public policy and issues of strategic importance to company boards.