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Helen Grantham

LLB (Hons)
Helen Grantham

Biography 

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 major transformation and having executive responsibility for legal, compliance, governance, risk, audit and corporate affairs functions. She has significant experience of organisations going through regulatory and governance change and has been the executive lead on several competition authority investigations.

Helen is a Council member at the University of Leeds, where she chairs its remuneration committee and is a trustee of its pension scheme. She is a Non-Executive Director at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where she chairs the Resources Committee. She is also a Lay Council Member at the Health and Care Professions Council, which is the statutory regulator for 15 health and care professions in the UK, and sits as one of the chairs of its registration appeal panels.

Council member category

  • Appointed lay member

Declaration of interests

DirectorshipsDirector - Trustee for the University of Leeds Pensions and Assurance Scheme 
Relevant financial interests, eg shareholdings, bonds and derivativesNone
ConsultanciesNone
Appointments to other bodies

University of Leeds - Lay Member of Council; chairs and sits on a number of Council committees

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Non-Executive Director; Chair of the Resources Committee; Member of the Audit Committee

Health and Care Professions Council - Lay Member of Council; Member of Audit Committee

Membership of other veterinary or allied organisationsNone
EmploymentSee above
Qualifications (other than veterinary qualifications listed in the Register)LLB (Hons), University of Leeds; Solicitor (England and Wales)
Interests relating to immediate family or close friends 
Other relevant information