It is certainly innovative to put someone who has no background in pensions in charge of TPR’s innovation.

Here she is, commenting on her career progression.

If I have space left in my tummy for another coffee, I will have one with Sarah Meyers. I am not sure what can be done at TPR, that hasn’t been done, apart from innovate, it is undoubtedly a job with scope for improvement of the regulator.

She has had a career in Northumbria in Government , sorting out various departments and here is a photo of her on the banks of the Thames, with Blackfriars and the City in the background. She certainly picked her day well if this was taken in 2026, we have only had a couple where the sun has shone and it seems to have shone on her!

It is a feature of TPR recently , to hire from outside the pension’s community. Digital Data and Technology seems to be where innovation is at TPR, though I had hoped that it was sufficiently integrated to what we did that we would not have had to put a leader on a steep staircase to the cutting edge of pension innovation.

Let’s hope that she will find that staircase easy and that the shift from Northumbria to Brighton in culture and perhaps in person, will work out.