Portrait — Dame Eleanor Ashworth
Dame Eleanor Ashworth
Chair
A former Permanent Secretary with a career in public administration and audit. She chairs the Board and holds no commercial interest in the work the Foundation certifies.
The Foundation
The Board
The Board of the Foundation is weighted so that no single commercial interest holds a majority. Seats are reserved for independent non-executive directors and for public-interest representation, and the founding contributor cannot, by itself, carry a vote.
Portrait — Professor Idris Okonkwo
Professor Idris Okonkwo
Independent non-executive director
A professor of computer science whose work concerns the evaluation and assurance of machine-learning systems. He sits on the Board in an independent capacity and advises on the Accreditation Standard.
Portrait — Margaret Crae
Margaret Crae
Independent non-executive director
A chartered accountant with senior audit and risk experience in regulated financial services. She chairs the audit and conflicts committee and sits without any interest in the certified work.
Portrait — The Revd Canon Thomas Aldous
The Revd Canon Thomas Aldous
Public-interest representative
Appointed to represent the public interest on the Board. He brings a background in standards bodies and charitable governance, and holds one of the seats reserved for non-commercial representation.
Portrait — Sebastian Haigh
Sebastian Haigh
Founder director, OAI Limited
Director on behalf of OAI Limited, which developed the IDEA Methodology in enterprise procurement and contributed it to the Foundation. The founder arrangement is disclosed in full on the independence page.
Directors record and manage conflicts of interest under a standing regime: a director with an interest in a matter declares it and does not vote on it. Changes to the Board are published as Notices in the ordinary way.