{"id":91119,"date":"2018-04-17T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T12:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c19168c5b4bb6811953e8bc57a7133e4"},"modified":"2018-04-17T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T12:59:13","slug":"press-release-kathryn-cearns-obe-appointed-as-non-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91119","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Kathryn Cearns OBE appointed as Non-Executive Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Highways England is responsible for operating, maintaining and improving more than 4,300 miles of motorways and main trunk roads throughout England and is delivering the government\u2019s \u00a315billion Road Investment Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>A chartered accountant, Kathryn will join the Board from today (Tuesday 17 April) for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Highways England chairman Colin Matthews said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I warmly welcome Kathryn to the Board of Highways England. Her strong financial skills and experience will be extremely valuable as we work to achieve the best possible value for taxpayers\u2019 money from the government\u2019s \u00a315bn investment in England\u2019s strategic road network.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kathryn has extensive senior level experience in both the public and private sectors.  Her career has included roles as independent chairman of the Financial Reporting Advisory Board to HM Treasury and as a project director at the UK Accounting Standards Board (now the Financial Reporting Council), as well as working for many years for an international law firm providing finance, audit and corporate governance advice and expertise to leading FTSE companies.<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn holds other non-executive, trustee and advisory appointments, most notably as a member of the External Audit Committee for the International Monetary Fund, a non-executive director for the UK Supreme Court, a non-executive board member and member of the Audit Committee for Companies House and as a trustee for Royal British Legion Industries.<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn will be paid \u00a325,000 for a minimum of 27 days\u2019 work per annum, with an additional \u00a33,000 for chairing a board committee. The remuneration for non-executive and senior executive posts is published in Highways England\u2019s annual report each year.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"general-enquiries\">General enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Members of the public should contact the Highways England customer contact centre on 0300 123 5000.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"media-enquiries\">Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Journalists should contact the Highways England press office on 0844 693 1448 and use the menu to speak to the most appropriate press officer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Cearns OBE has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Highways England, the company announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}