David Fairs is a Partner at LCP. He was previously Executive Director of Regulatory Policy, Analysis and Advice at The Pensions Regulator during which time he covered policy issues around Brexit, the pandemic, the conflict in Ukraine and the LDI crisis in September 2022. He oversaw the introduction of the Pensions Act 2022 and subsequent regulations as well as introducing the interim superfund regime. Whilst at the Regulator he was also a member of the Board of Supervisors of EIOPA, chair of the Pensions Working Group and Committee member of the Joint Forum for Actuarial Regulation and member of the Portfolio Committee overseeing the introduction of the Pensions Dashboard. He was responsible for the Regulators climate and ED&I strategy and regulatory oversight of pension administrators.
He is a former Chair of the Association of Consulting Actuaries, former Council member of the International Actuarial Association and inaugural Chair of the Joint Industry Forum for Workplace Pensions.
He is an advisory Board member of Guide, a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and an Honorary Professor at Durham University Business School.
