East Midlands

Professor Doctor Jeffrey Ridley FCG, East Midlands Branch Chair

Professor Jeffrey Ridley FCG FIIA CIA has been a member of the Institute since 1967 and is a past member and chairman of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Branch in the 1980s early 1990s.

He is currently a retired member but still active in academia as a researcher and as a consultant and writer on all aspects of corporate governance. He is a visiting chair at the University of Lincoln. His latest book Creative and Innovative Auditing (2018) is published by Routledge

Simon Martin, East Midlands Branch Vice-Chair

Bio coming soon.

Jane Powell, Branch Secretary

Jane is Company Secretary of Lincolnshire Co-operative Ltd and heads up the legal function. She qualified as a solicitor in 1986 after studying law at the London School of Economics. She initially worked in private practice specializing in commercial property and general commercial matters. Having moved in house she joined Plymouth Co-operative as deputy company secretary and then came to Lincolnshire to take up her current role in 2005. She gained an MBA from the University of Warwick in 2005 studying part-time, subsequently qualifying as a chartered secretary and is now a fellow of the Governance Institute.

Jane is Chair of Co-operatives East Midlands, a member of the corporate governance expert reference panel of Co-operatives UK, Chair of the JR Halkes Trust, a trustee of the Lincoln Diocesan Trust and Board of Finance Limited and Secretary of the East Midlands branch of the Governance Institute.