Chris Hitchen
Railways Pension Trustee Company
NAPF Immediate Past Chairman
Chris is the Chief Executive of rpmi, the pension services company which runs the UK rail industry’s pension arrangements for 350,000 beneficiaries, and provides administration and management services to other schemes and organisations. He is also Chairman of Railpen Investments, the rpmi subsidiary which acts as in-house investment manager for the Railways Pension Trustee Company’s £17 billion portfolio.
He is a qualified actuary and holds a Mathematics degree from University of Durham. He is a Trustee Member of NEST, the new UK-wide DC scheme aiming to create new retirement saving, and Chairman of its Investment Committee. He is the immediate past Chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), and a past Chairman of both the NAPF Investment Council and the Institutional Shareholders Committee (ISC). Before joining Railpen in 1998, Chris was a Principal at Aon Consulting, where he specialised in investment consultancy.
He is married with four children.