Dan leads the investment team at People’s Partnership, overseeing the management of over £32bn on behalf of the seven million members of The People’s Pension, a leading UK defined contribution (DC) master trust. Under Dan’s leadership, the team is building one of the UK’s largest asset owners at a transformative time for the pensions industry. Their collaborative model focuses on deep partnerships with a select group of high-quality asset managers to execute strategy and enhance performance. 

People’s Partnership operates a purpose-driven model were profits benefit members, with a vision to become a world-class asset owner – distinct from most DC funds. 

Dan has worked in the investment sector since 2003, with experience in investment consulting at Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP), where he was a partner, as well as at Redington and Mercer. 

Forbes calls long-time institutional investor Jon Lukomnik one of the pioneers of modern corporate governance.  Jon’s book, Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters, co-authored with Professor Jim Hawley is widely praised as the ‘seminal’ work on system-level investing. Their work focuses on the inability of modern portfolio theory to deal with systematic risk and provides a coherent finance theory to explain why investors mitigate risks such as climate change from a risk/return perspective.   

The managing partner of Sinclair Capital LLC, a strategic consultancy to institutional investors, Jon has been the investment advisor or a trustee for more than $100bn (including New York City’s pension funds) andhas consulted to institutional investors with aggregate assets of more than $2tn dollars. He serves as Brandmeyer Fellow for Sustainable Investing and Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is a Senior Fellow at the High Meadows Institute and a trustee for the VanEck mutual funds, where he chairs the governance committee and serves on the Board of The Shareholder Commons.

Jon co-founded the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and GovernanceMetrics International (now part of MSCI). He served for more than a decade as the executive director of the Investor Responsibility Research Center(IRRC) Institute and is a former Pembroke Visiting Professor of International Finance at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, UK.   

Laasya is responsible for working with our Community, developing content and knowledge, and driving forward collaborative initiatives across the industry.  

Laasya is passionate about approaching pensions and investment with a systems lens and understanding how these sectors interact with the wider social and environmental systems they exist within.  

Laasya is a CFA charterholder with experience working with a range of asset owners as an investment adviser, with a focus on corporate defined benefit pensions. Laasya is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events, and is also an experienced podcast host, currently hosting the Pensions for Purpose podcast. Laasya is an advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion and is particularly passionate about anti-racism activism. She has previously won the Women in Pensions and Women in Investment Rising Star awards.