Dr Helen Phillips

Helen Phillips brings a wealth of senior experience across a 30-year career in sectors including insurance, legal, social care, and further education. 

A former senior environmental regulator, Helen has held numerous non-executive roles since 2015. With expertise in professional standards, she currently chairs the Chartered Insurance Institute and NHS Professionals, a workforce partner to the NHS, putting thousands of highly skilled healthcare professionals into NHS Trusts and other places to care.

Helen has also chaired the Legal Services Board and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where she served during the pandemic, and is a Commissioner at the Gambling Commission.

Helen has a BSc in Zoology and a PhD in Environmental Science from University College Dublin. She has previously served as a Board Director of Yorkshire Water and chair of Loop Customer Management Ltd, a Kelda Group subsidiary.

Prior to her non-executive career, she served as founding Chief Executive of Natural England and Director for Wales of the Environment Agency.