The Audit Committee is a committee of Urenco’s Board of Directors. Its role is to monitor, on behalf of the Board, the organisation’s financial reporting, the integrity of its financial statements and its systems of internal control, including financial, operational, compliance and risk management. The Committee provides updates and, where appropriate, recommendations to the Board on these matters.
Audit Committee
Frank Weigand
Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee
Frank joined the Urenco Board in November 2014.
After completing a PhD in Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, he joined McKinsey & Company Inc. in 1996.
In 2001, he became Director of Strategy and Quality Management at RWE Systems in Dortmund, Germany. In 2005, he was appointed Director of Corporate Planning and Controlling at RWE Power AG before becoming Vice President Controlling Group of RWE AG. From 2010 to 2012, he became Chief Financial Officer of RWE npower plc in Swindon, UK. From 2013 to 2017, Frank was Chief Financial Officer of RWE Power AG and RWE Generation SE. Since January 2018, he has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of RWE Power AG.
Miriam Maes
Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Sustainability Committee
Miriam joined the Urenco Board in October 2015.
After managing businesses for Unilever, ICI and the Marmon Group, in 2002 she became a European Executive of Texas Utilities and then Chief Operating Officer of non-regulated distribution networks for Electricity de France (EDF) in the UK.
This was followed by roles as Advisor to the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change, Chief Executive Officer of energy and climate change strategy consultancy Foresee, and Chair of the Energy Transition Forum for the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Miriam served as Chairman of the Board of the ELIA Group and Non-Executive Director on the Board of Vilmorin & Cie. She is currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Port of Rotterdam, Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Eramet, Assystem, and Ultra-Centrifuge Nederland N.V., and member of the Advisory Committee of the Total-Tikehau Investment Fund.
Justin Manson
Non-Executive Director
Justin joined the Urenco Board in January 2016.
He is Interim Chief Executive of UK Government Investments (UKGI), a company wholly-owned by HM Treasury. He joined UKGI in May 2015 as a Director. He was a Non-Executive Director and member of the Risk and Nomination Committees of UK Export Finance from 2015-2019. Justin was a Managing Director and Senior Adviser at Morgan Stanley from 1996 to 2013, based in New York and London.