David Farrar
NEST CorporationClimate and Stewardship Policy Manager
David has worked in DWP since 2003, and in workplace pensions policy at DWP since 2014. In recent years, he has delivered regulations on the charge cap; cost, charge and investment disclosure; the introduction of tailored risk warnings in personal pensions with Guaranteed Annuity Rates; accelerating and removing barriers to DC consolidation; and clarifying and strengthening trustees’ duties around ESG. More recently he co-ordinated the climate change aspects of the Pension Schemes Act, and currently leads on DWP’s work on climate change risk and responsible investment, embedding climate governance, TCFD and stewardship into pension scheme decision making.
