Speaker profile: Clare Routledge

Clare is an accredited professional trustee with a portfolio of sole trustee and trustee board appointments, as well as host of Vidett’s Shaping Tomorrow podcast series.

An actuary with 25 years’ experience of working with employers and trustees, Clare has worked on a wide variety of pension issues in both the public and private sector. She has made a big impression since becoming a Trustee and was a finalist for ‘Trustee of the Year’ in the Women in Pensions Awards 2025. Her responsibilities include chairing trustee boards, leading projects (for example scheme mergers and changing scheme administrator) and funding negotiations, managing relationships with advisers and scheme sponsors and ongoing governance responsibilities.

Before joining Vidett, Clare was a director at PwC, where she could be found advising corporate clients on funding, long-term journey planning, endgame solutions, corporate transactions and asset-backed funding solutions. She also created and led PwC’s Virtual Ideas Exchange, a series of quarterly interactive educational webinars for trustees and pensions managers.

Prior to PwC, Clare worked at Deloitte where she was their restructuring lead; working on a number of high-profile distressed restructuring cases. She also completed a 6-month secondment with one of the UK’s largest pension schemes as head of risk and compliance.

As well as being recognised for her current trustee role, Clare was a finalist for Actuarial Post’s 2021 ‘Actuary of the Year’ award, as well as a finalist in the Women in Pension Awards 2021 for ‘Innovator of the Year’ and the ‘Pandemic Perseverance Award’. She is the host of Vidett’s Shaping Tomorrow podcast series, is regularly invited to speak at industry events, and is adept at explaining complex pensions subjects to audiences with a range of pensions knowledge.