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The Management Panel and Advisory Panel

The Management & Advisory Panel

 Tameside MBC delegates the day to day running of GMPF to a committee called the Pension Fund Management Panel. The panel set up three working groups that consider areas of GMPF’s work in more detail & make recommendations. An Advisory Panel supports the Management Panel and Director of Pensions.  

Management Panel

  • Cllr Eleanor Wills

    Tameside

    • Chair of the Pension Fund and Executive Leader of Administering Authority (Tameside)
    • Chair of Policy and Development Working Group
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  • Cllr Mike Smith

    Tameside

    • Vice Chair (1st Deputy) of the Pension Fund 
    • Chair of Investment Monitoring and ESG Working Group
    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group

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  • Cllr Naila Sharif

    Tameside

    • Deputy Chair (2nd Deputy) of the Pension Fund
    • Chair of the Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
    • Investment Monitoring and ESG Working Group
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Administration, Employer Funding & Viability Working Group  

  • Cllr John Taylor

    Tameside

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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  • Cllr David Mills

    Tameside

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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  • Cllr Andrew McLaren

    Tameside

    • Administration, Employer Funding and Viability Working Group
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  • Cllr Sangita Patel

    Tameside

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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  • Cllr Nicholas Peel

    Bolton

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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  • Cllr Denise Ward

    Tameside

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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  • Cllr Sean Thorpe

    Bury

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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  • Cllr Abdul Jabbar

    Oldham

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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  • Cllr Jilly Julian

    Stockport

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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  • Cllr Joanne Harding

    Trafford

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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Investment Monitoring and ESG Working Group 

  • Cllr Liam Billington

    Tameside

    • Investment Monitoring and ESG Working Group
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  • Cllr Steve Barton

    Tameside

    • Investment Monitoring and ESG Working Group
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  • Cllr Jack Naylor

    Tameside

    • Investment Monitoring and ESG Working Group
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  • Cllr Hugh Roderick

    Tameside

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  • Cllr Jack Youd

    Salford

    • Investment Monitoring and ESG Working Group
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  • Cllr Nazia Rehman

    Wigan

    • Investment Monitoring and ESG Working Group
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Policy and Development Working Group 

  • Petula Herbert

    Ministry of Justice

    • Policy and Development Working Group
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  • Cllr Peter Hodgkinson

    Rochdale

    • Policy and Development Working Group
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  • Cllr Rabnawaz Akbar

    Manchester

    • Policy and Development Working Group
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Advisory Panel

Policy and Development Working Group 

  • Councillor E Wills

    Tameside (Chair)

  • Councillor N Peel

    Bolton

  • Councillor S Thorpe

    Bury

  • Councillor R Akbar

    Manchester

  • Councillor A Jabbar

    Oldham

  • Councillor P Hodgkinson

    Rochdale

  • Councillor J Youd

    Salford

  • Councillor J Julian

    Stockport

  • Councillor J Harding

    Trafford

  • Councillor N Rehman

    Wigan

Employee Representatives 

  • Ken Drury

    UNITE

    • Investment Monitoring and ESG Working 
Group
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  • Frank Llewellyn

    UNITE

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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  • Tracy Delaney

    UNITE

    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group 

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  • Scott Caplan

    UNISON

    • Investment Monitoring and ESG Working Group 


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  • Alan Flatley

    GMB

    • Investment Monitoring and ESG Working Group
    • Administration and Employer Funding Viability Working Group
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 Observers 

  • Councillor John Taylor

    Stockport

 External Advisors 

  • P Moizer

    Professor & Dean of Business School, University of Leeds

  • P Moizer

    Retired Investment 
Manager

Management Panel Responsibilities

 The terms of reference for the Management Panel outline its specific functions & responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: