Hugh Francis

Hugh is a Chartered Accountant  with more than 30 years’ experience in the insurance sector, and has  recently retired,, having worked for Aviva since 2001, where he was formally Director of Regulatory Affairs & External Reporting Developments being responsible for assessing and responding to future external reporting and regulatory and accounting developments, including IFRS and Solvency IIi and for a short period was Interim Group Compliance and Financial Crime Director.  He  was also  Vice Chair of the Insurance Europe Financial Reporting Group and a member of the EFRAG Insurance Accounting Working Group In addition, he was, Chair of the ABI Financial Reporting Committee and a member of the ABI Prudential Financial and Taxation Committee. He was also previously Chairman of the CFO Forum Solvency II Working group, a member of the EIOPA IRSG Stakeholder Group, a member of the CFO Forum Steering Committee and was also a former Chair of the CFO Forum Insurance Accounting Group. He continues to be a member of the ICAEW Insurance sub-committee. Hugh was previously with Sun Life Financial and PricewaterhouseCooper  and is Non Executive Director of Baptist Insurance Company and a number of other companies.