Ashok Gupta is Chair of the Financial Systems Thinking Innovation Centre (Finstic). He is also Chair of Mercer UK, Chair of EV, a Non-executive Director of Sun Life Financial Inc and of JP Morgan European Discovery Trust.

He has played key roles in building several successful financial services businesses including The Phoenix Group, Quilter and SJP.

He recently led a review of the UK DB Pensions Sector as Chair of a PLSA Taskforce and was also Joint Deputy Chair of a Bank of England Working Group on Procyclicality. Former roles include Chair of AA Insurance Services, Chair of Skandia UK, non-executive director of the Pensions Regulator, and Treasurer/Trustee of the Ethical Journalism Network.