Bridget is Senior Partner of Volterra. She is one of the UK’s most influential economists, with an extensive track record in advising public and private sector clients on key strategic issues. Bridget has direct experience of corporate decision making as well as advisory and modelling projects. She is currently a non-executive director at Network Rail, where she chairs the Audit and Risk Committee, and Ulster Bank, where she chairs the Risk Committee. She has previously sat on the Boards of the Britannia Building Society and the Department of Work and Pensions, and chaired the Audit Committee in both cases. These roles have given her insight into how decisions are made in practice and the kind of modelling which will support decision making effectively across a range of industries. Her advisory work has involved working at board level on a range of issues, from the introduction of Emissions Trading to major investment appraisal of new plans, to regulatory issues
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