Who we are

Risk and Audit Committee

The Risk and Audit Committee provides oversight and independent challenge on corporate governance and risk management issues.

One board member serves on the Risk and Audit Committee:

  • Katja Hall (chair).

Independent members

Nick is a non-executive director at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; he chairs the Audit, Risk and Governance Committee at Imperial College. Since 2021 Nick has served as independent Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Royal Society of Medicine. He chairs the North West London advisory committee for the national NHS Clinical Impact Awards. Outside his NHS roles, Nick works as a consultant offering communications, policy and political advice, and training. Until 2004, Nick was chief executive of the National Union of Students.

Satish has held a range of finance and executive roles in the private space specialising in finance, HR and internal audit. He has worked for a variety of SMEs and blue chip companies across several sectors in the UK and overseas. His last role was as a finance director with Qmatic. He is currently pursuing work in the voluntary sector.

Dirk has held various CFO and group finance director positions in the private sector, most notably as CFO of Lidl Great Britain. Before that, he had a decade-long career as a qualified accountant and certified fraud examiner at KPMG. Dirk has chaired various audit committees in the retail sector across multiple jurisdictions. Most recently, he was chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee and a governor at Kingston University. He lectured on auditing and international accounting at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.

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