Our Board

It is with huge sadness that we record the death, in August 2023, of Sally Bundock. Sally had been a member of the Board since 2015 and made a significant contribution to all our work. Our thoughts and sympathies are with her family and friends.

Debbie Terry - Chair

Debbie spent over 30 years working for BT plc, primarily in human resources. After retiring she managed an independent charity, the BT Benevolent Fund, for almost 11 years. She is also a trustee of the Post Office Remembrance Fellowship, a grant-making charity. She is widowed with one daughter and lives in south west London, enjoying travelling, theatre and the arts.

Colin Birch - Deputy Chair

Colin started his career in the insurance industry 1967 with the Royal Insurance Company in Leicester and after a brief spell with an insurance broker in Birmingham, joined Commercial Union in 1980. In 1999, he took up a position with Towergate Insurance Group, and became Managing Director of a number of companies within the Group, before becoming part of their mergers and acquisitions team. He joined CSIS as a Non-Executive Director in 2008, stepping down at the end of 2020 and moving over to be a Trustee of the Charity at the same time.

Chris Smith - Treasurer

Chris has worked in the Civil Service since 2003; starting his career in the Departent for Work and Pensions in customer-facing operational roles, he moved into Government Finance in 2013. From DWP he moved to HM Revenue and Customs in 2014 and has worked in a variety of finance roles, including managing large financial IT contracts and overseeing funding for policy changes delivered on behalf of Ministers. In his current role as Transformation Finance lead for HMRC Cusomer Service group (CSG), he is responsible for the financial management of all transformation programmes and live services within CSG. Chris is a keen supporter of Newcastle United and lives in Northumberland.

Ray Flanigan - Grants Chair

Ray retired from the Civil Service in 2006, his 32 years ending as Chief Welfare Officer in the Lord Chancellor's Department. Previously he spent three years seconded to the Charity for Civil Servants as Director of their Help and Advisory Services. He remains active in a range of roles within grant-making and other charities with Civil Service connections. 

Kevin Holliday - Charity Secretary

Kevin began his career in the insurance industry with Commercial Union Assurance in 1974. He joined the Bishops plc board in 1989 as Commercial Insurance Broking Director and took up the post of Chief Executive of the Civil Service Insurance Society in 2005 and became a Trustee of the Charity Fund at the same time. He has overseen the delivery of almost £10million in donations to the CSIS Charity Fund. Kevin resigned as a trustee in 2020 to take up the post of Charity Secretary.

Ian Albert

Ian worked for the Department for Work and Pensions and its predecessors for 38 years until he retired in 2018. He was a member of the PCS trade union National Executive Committee from 1989 to 2018, and has been a primary school Governor since 1999. Ian was also a member of the Civil Service Pensions Board from 2010 to 2020. Since retirement, he has been a District Councillor in North Hertfordshire, where he is currently the Executive Member with responsibility for Finance and IT, and has remained a Trusee of his trade union's pension fund. Ian is a widower with one daughter and lives in Hitchin.

Charlie Cochrane

Charlie Cochrane was the Secretary of the Council of Civil Service Unions until his retirement in 2010. He is now the joint Chair of the Civil Service Appeal Board. He also acts as a trustee of two occupational pension schemes and of a charity operating a major leisure centre, and is a national executive member of the Civil Service Pensioners Alliance. 

Michael Duggan

After twenty years working as a civil servant with the then Department of Health & Social Security (DHSS), Mike was appointed as a HQ Assistant Secretary with the Civil & Public Services Association (CPSA), a trade union for civil servants, in 1991 and, after mergers between civil service trade unions, was latterly promoted to one of the Senior National Officer posts within the Public & Commercial Services (PCS) trade union. After retiring from PCS in 2008, Mike served as the General Secretary of the Civil Service Pensioners’ Alliance (CSPA), until his second retirement in 2019. Mike is currently the elected Chair of the retired members’ group of his occupational Pension Scheme.

Gaby Glasener-Cipollone 

Gaby has spent more than 20 years in Consulting for Financial Services. As Executive Partner at IBM Gaby was driving clients' corporate innovation agenda including Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Robotics and Blockchain. Gaby has voluntary work experience, most recently as a Trustee and Treasurer for the Homeless charity Groundswell. She was formerly our Treasurer.

Rebecca Gooch 

Rebecca trained as an accountant (CIMA) and internal auditor with the Department for Work and Pensions. She has undertaken various finance, governance and audit roles, such as leading the audit function for the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman and implementing the Banking & Accounting function for the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme. She currently leads on finance and benefits for projects in HMRC Debt Management. She is a past president of her local CIMA branch and enjoys playing deck hockey in her spare time. 

Sun-Hee Park 

Sun-Hee is a finance lawyer with over 25 years of experience.She is currently the General Counsel at Adsum Technologies Ltd, a FinTech that provides services and/or advances to companies in a tax credit position. She has been involved with many London start-ups since 2018, as an advisor and investor. As the daughter of a diplomat, Sun-Hee appreciates and supports the crucial and important role that civil servants play.