The committee’s remit is to review the reserves and investment policies and make recommendations to the Trustee Board; advise the Honorary Treasurer on divestments to meet working capital requirements; and to review the appointment of auditors and make recommendations to the Annual General Meeting.
Honorary Treasurer
Kate is Chief Economist at the Financial Conduct Authority, where she heads a division responsible for providing rigorous economic thinking, research, analysis, and advice to help the FCA deliver on its strategic objective of making financial services markets work well. Kate has nearly 20 years’ experience as an economist in roles spanning the public and private sector. Kate has undertaken several senior roles in government. She has published in The Economic Journal.
Chair of Publications Committee
Chief Executive
Leighton has spent the past 25 years in roles spanning academic and clinical research, policy and education, including leadership positions in the private and charitable sectors.
Leighton is Treasurer of The Evidence Quarter (a hub for the UK What Works Centres), a Governor of the University of Northampton and a Trustee of the Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescence. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Voluntary Sector Management from Cass Business School and a Diploma in Charity Management from the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Co-opted Trustee
Kofi is a Research Associate at the Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge and a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto. He sits on the boards of Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Managers, Sanlam Africa Real Estate Advisor, and Helios Fairfax Partners and is a former Vice Chairman at Standard Chartered. In the past, Kofi chaired the Policy Committee of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
Kofi was a Trustee of SOAS University of London. In 2020, Kofi was awarded a CBE for his contribution to philanthropy.
Co‑PM ‑ Environmental Solutions & Investment Analyst
Dean, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University Canada
From July 2026, Prof Wim Van der Stede is the Dean of the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Before, Wim was the CIMA Professor of Accounting and Financial Management (2006 – 2026) at the LSE, where he was also Head of the Department of Accounting for 10 years (2012 – 2022) and the Dean of Extended Education (2022 – 2025).
Wim served as a Director of the American Accounting Association (AAA Board, 2017 – 2020) and President of its Management Accounting Section (AAA MAS, 2010 – 2011). He also chaired the Publications Committee (2012 – 2013) and the Doctoral Colloquium (2019 – 2021) of the European Accounting Association (EAA). He was Editor-in-Chief of Management Accounting Research (2015 – 2024).
Wim regularly appears at global academic and practitioner conferences as a speaker.
RES Trustee & Council member (until 2028)
Parama Chaudhury is Professor at UCL and has experience in UCL’s BAME awarding gap project, helping a diverse range of colleagues to develop, use and disseminate good practice in economics education and widening participation initiatives, to further the RES’s work in this area. This builds on her work to date with the RES’ Education and Training Committee. She is also the Founding Director of CTaLE, and sits on the panel for the CORE Project’s Learning Committee.
