Council, Remuneration committee , People and Resources Committee
Lay Council member
Helen is a solicitor and spent her executive career in leadership roles in the private sector as General Counsel and Group Secretary of large, complex listed companies and latterly at the Co-op Group. Most of her career was spent in consumer-facing organisations going through periods of significant change and having executive responsibility for legal, compliance, governance, risk, audit and corporate affairs functions.
Helen has a keen interest in education, healthcare and supporting local communities and her non-executive roles have focused in these areas. She is a Council member at the University of Leeds, where she chairs their remuneration committee and is a trustee of their pension scheme. She is also an Associate Non-Executive Director at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and chairs the Yorkshire and North-East Advisory Board at the Canal and River Trust, which provides green and blue spaces in communities across the region.