Lloyd’s appoints Angela Crawford-Ingle to the board

Insurance and reinsurance marketplace Lloyd’s has appointed Angela Crawford-Ingle as a new board member who succeeds Richard Keers as chair of the audit committee. The appointment is effective immediately.

Crawford-Ingle also becomes Lloyd’s whistleblowers’ champion, where she will oversee the independence and effectiveness of Lloyd’s whistleblowing policies and procedures.

Crawford-Ingle is currently the senior independent director and chair of the audit committee at River & Mercantile Group and non-executive director and audit committee chair at Openwork.  She has over 30 years’ experience as a senior partner at PwC in the financial services industry, specialising in insurance and asset management and was, until recently, a non-executive director and chair of the audit & risk committees at Beazley and at Swinton Insurance.

Bruce Carnegie-Brown, Lloyd’s chairman, said: “At Lloyd’s we are committed to encouraging an open, honest and transparent culture that encourages speaking up – this is crucial to help us build the high performing culture that the Future at Lloyd’s demands. I am therefore delighted to welcome Angela Crawford-Ingle to the Board. Her wealth of boardroom experience as well as sector specific knowledge will be vital to Lloyd’s and I look forward to working closely with her.”