Our Committee

Steering Committee

Samantha Westaway

Co-Chair

Sam Daruvala

Co-Chair

Ninette Meyer

Treasurer

Victoria Ratford

Secretary

Clare Felgate - Events Lead

Events Lead

Independent Non-Executive Directors

Sally Bramall

Dominic Christian

Louise Day

Samantha Westaway – Co-Chair

Samantha works at Mactavish as a Client Relationship Management Director and has experience of chairing a mental health Colleague Resource Group where she helped to develop a wellbeing strategy across the UK and Ireland. As a trained Mental Health First Aider, Samantha is an accomplished public speaker and regularly takes part in forums on the subject.

With personal experience of mental ill health, Samantha is passionate about promoting de-stigmatisation and creating an open dialogue of mental health issues within the workplace.

Sam Daruvala – Co-Chair

Sam is a Senior Claims Adjuster at Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), having worked in the insurance industry since 2010. She is also Co-Chair of TMK’s Disability Network and has lived experience with multiple sclerosis, neurodiversity and mental health. She is passionate about supporting people with visible and invisible disabilities, trying to take the stigma out of disability and making the industry as equitable and inclusive as possible.

Ninette Meyer – Treasurer

Ninette Meyer is an actuary whose career has taken her through a range of finance and risk roles in the UK and South Africa. She has spent her career working in capital modelling, reserving, and quantitative risk management, and she enjoys finding practical, evidence-based ways to improve how organisations make decisions. Ninette is currently Head of Underwriting Insights at MS Amlin. She is a Fellow of both the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the Actuarial Society of South Africa, and is also a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary.

Inclusion is something Ninette cares about deeply. Throughout her career, she has been involved in several employee and industry networks, including the LINK LGBTQ+ Network, Open and Out at MS Amlin, and the Actuarial Women’s Committee of the Association of South African Black Actuarial Professionals. She joined the Disability in the City Steering Group because she wants to help create workplaces where people feel able to be open about who they are, and where disability is understood without stigma. Her hope is for a City that works better for everyone.

Victoria Ratford – Secretary

Victoria works at Gallagher as an Associate IT Director for EMEA and is currently the Gallagher inclusion and diversity disability workstream lead for the UK. She has worked in the insurance industry for nearly 30 years in various roles including Account Broker, Compliance, Training and IT. Victoria joined the iDAWN team because of her passion to work with likeminded colleagues in the insurance industry to make positive changes by removing barriers and stigmas associated with people with both visible and invisible disabilities.

Sally Bramall

Sally is currently Global Head of the Market Relations Governance at Willis Towers Watson. She joined Willis in 1988 and has served in roles including Global Head of Market Security, COO of Financial Institutions Group, and COO of GB Client & Business Development Group.

Sally is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute, holds an M.B.A. from the University of Hull, and is a Court Assistant of the Worshipful Company of Insurers.

Sally is a passionate supporter of diversity and inclusion in the insurance market and sits on the committees of Inclusion@Lloyd’s and iWIN. She is also Diversity Officer and Vice President of the Insurance Institute of Ipswich, Suffolk & North Essex.

Dominic Christian

Dominic is Global Chairman of Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions business. He is a member of the Global Executive of Aon. He is Deputy Chairman of Lloyd’s. Dominic is a Director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a Trustee of the StandUpFoundation, a Director of The Bermuda Society, Chairman of the Lloyd's Tercentenary Research Foundation and Chairman of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (SCVA).

For 2015/16 he was President of the Insurance Institute of London. In 2017 he was elected to the Court of Common Council of The City of London. He leads the Inclusion@Lloyd's Group – a contemporary approach to Diversity and Inclusion being in his view central to future business success. He was recently appointed Chair of ClimateWise. Dominic holds an Honours Degree in History from the University of East Anglia and an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law.

His children describe his interests as Family, talking, football, tennis, history, architecture, East Anglia, new countries, trees, lakes, cats and overworking. Not all are approved of.

Louise Day

Louise is Director of Operations at the IUA and has over 30 years’ experience governing and delivering change across the London Market and wider financial services sector. Louise joined the IUA in 2015 to oversee company market involvement in market modernisation and has since been involved in many major initiatives as well as running operations for the IUA. She is a non-executive director of London Insurance Market Operations & Strategic Sourcing (LIMOSS).

Louise is also a member of the inclusion@Lloyd’s committee and a dedicated supporter of London Market diversity and inclusion campaigns. Louise has been involved in project delivery throughout her career and has additional experience of managed service delivery. She has worked for London market insurers for 10 years and is passionate about evolving the market.