NERC Assurance Board

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Overview

The NERC Assurance Board (NAB) provides a focus for assurance within NERC, supporting the Executive Chair in fulfilling their responsibilities. NAB’s role includes internal challenge and experienced advice, which will help it in planning and providing reassurance to Council.

The board also provides UKRI and UKRI’s Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee (ARAC) with assurance that NERC has robust assurance processes and procedures that they can rely on, while not replicating the responsibilities of ARAC.

Members

  • Professor Gideon Henderson, Independent Chair
  • Professor Louise Heathwaite, NERC Executive Chair
  • Christine Foster, The Alan Turing Institute
  • Kim Shillinglaw, Media Executive

Meetings

2026

  • 23 February, London

2025

• 26 February, London
• 1 October, London

2024

  • 14 February, London
  • 23 October, Swindon

2023

  • 21 February, London
  • 24 October, venue to be confirmed

2022

  • 25 January
  • 12 September

Last updated: 5 February 2026