Yvonne Braun

Yvonne Braun OBE directs the ABI’s work on pensions, health and protection insurance, and oversees the finance department and data analysis team. She leads the ABI’s diversity and inclusion programme, and the sector’s charitable £100m Covid-19 Support Fund.

Yvonne joined the ABI from the Financial Services Authority, where she worked in policy and public affairs. She previously was a capital markets lawyer at Goldman Sachs and the US law firm Cleary Gottlieb.

Yvonne is a member of the Government’s Pensions Dashboards Advisory Group, and the City of London Corporation’s Taskforce to improve socioeconomic diversity at senior levels in financial and professional services. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former trustee of Asthma UK, a graduate of Cambridge University and holds a doctorate in international criminal law.

She was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours list in 2024 for services to the pensions industry and to socio-economic diversity.