Executive and Governance Office

Staff Profile

Miss Marta Phillips OBE CA

Marta Phillips is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. She has over 40 years of finance experience and significant experience of the public sector, having been a civil servant since 1993, and a senior civil servant from 2000 until 2013. Her last appointment was as the Chief Executive of the Pensions Advisory Service (2010 - 2013) having previously held the positions of Director of Compliance, and Director of Compliance and Resources at the National Lottery Commission from 1999 to 2010. Prior to this she was Head of Finance, European Social Fund at the Department for Education and Skills from 1993 to 1999. Over recent years Marta Phillips has developed a portfolio career and brings nonexecutive board experience to a number of organisations, including the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster and the London Fire Brigade.

Marta read BA (Hons) Economics and Accounting and MSc Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.