Governance & Remuneration Committee

Governance & Remuneration Committee

Maggie Porteous
Chair

Appointed 16 June 2025

Maggie worked for the John Lewis Partnership for 31 years, culminating in leading the 20,000 Partners who worked in the 51 John Lewis Department Stores as Director of Shop Trade.

As a non executive Director Maggie has Chaired the John Lewis Foundation, has served on the Board of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and is currently the Senior Independent Director of the Abri Group and a Trustee of the Octavia Foundation.

Maggie has a care and passion for people and believes that a culture of high performance and employee engagement can deliver exemplary customer service and strong operational results. She is passionate about providing the safety and security of a decent home as a platform for social mobility.

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Terrie Alafat CBE

Appointed 1 April 2020

Terrie served as Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing from 2015 to 2019, and has a wealth of housing experience spanning over 23 years.

Her previous appointments include Director of Housing at the Department of Communities and Local Government where she was responsible for national housing polices including affordable housing, homelessness and supported housing.

Her wealth of knowledge of the housing sector and her work in shaping policy will be instrumental in continuing to take the Group forward as one of the country’s leading providers of housing and homelessness services.

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Fenella Edge

Appointed 1 August 2024

Fenella is an experienced Treasurer with over 30 years experience in treasury and risk.

After 21 years in post, she has recently stepped down from her role as Group Treasurer of The Housing Finance Corporation Limited (THFC) – a not-for-profit lender to Housing Associations in the UK – where she was also an Executive Director and member of the THFC Group Board and its subsidiaries. Her main area of expertise is in debt capital markets funding where she has raised over £4.5billion through the issuance of bonds under THFC’s various programmes, in addition to arranging over £2billion of funding from the European Investment Bank. She was instrumental in THFC’s delivery of over £3billion of long term funding under the Government Affordable Housing Guarantee Scheme (2013).

Fenella has also been a non-executive board member of Dolphin Living Limited – a Registered Provider operating in Central London for the past 9 years and a member of the Acquisition, Finance and Development Committee.

Prior to joining THFC in 2002 she spent 11 years at Abbey National Treasury Services (ANTS) in a variety of roles covering capital markets, derivatives and market risk, joining the Board of ANTS in 1996.

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