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Hans-Cristophe Hirt

What Do You Enjoy Most About Your Role

Applying my experience across disciplines to solve complex pension challenges and securing the best outcomes for members.

Interests Outside of Work

A dedicated tango dancer, Arsenal fan and lover of the Royal Ballet and Opera. Also enjoy spending time with our four cats.

Top Achievement To Date

Building and scaling EOS at Federated Hermes into a leading stewardship services provider, helping shape an industry and profession that barely existed two decades ago.

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Hans-Cristophe Hirt

Hans-Christoph Hirt

Professional Trustee

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  • London, UK

Hans is an accredited professional trustee (APPT) and a qualified solicitor with extensive pension scheme governance experience. He has served as a member-nominated trustee on a DB scheme since 2021 and brings over 20 years of asset management expertise, working closely with pension funds to support long-term value creation. He also serves on an FCA advisory panel.

Previously, he was Managing Director and board member of EOS at Federated Hermes, a leading provider of engagement and voting services, where he led its fourfold growth to over $1.6 trillion in assets under advice. Earlier in his career, he practised corporate law at Ashurst.

A recognised expert in governance and sustainable investing, Hans holds a PhD, co-edited a book on stewardship and sustainability in investment management, and teaches at leading universities. He also sits on UCL’s Centre for Ethics and Law advisory board.

As a valued member of a Trustee Board, Hans combines expertise in governance, law and investment to address complex pension challenges, constructively challenge advisers, and drive well-informed decisions that secure the best outcomes for members. His experience in running a business enhances his ability to oversee risk, scheme administration and stakeholder management.

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Diversity

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone has different needs, and we support this balance offering true flexibility in how our people manage their time and fully support part time working and a family friendly approach.

Communication

Communication

We believe in clear and transparent communication and create regular opportunities for internal communication. Our regular business updates and opportunities to input into the business ensures everyone feels part of the team and on the same page at Pi, ensuring our hybrid working model is effective regardless of where you are based.

Development

Development

Nurturing every Pi Person is important to us and we want to ensure everyone has the opportunity for continued professional development by providing the space to do this alongside client commitments. Everyone has an individual Personal Development Plan catered to them, whether they are on the start of their journey with Pi or those looking at ways to transition into the next stage of their careers.

Everyone has the opportunity for a regular development and progression review and everyone has ownership over their own development with input and guidance of senior member of the team where required.

We provide regular opportunities to share knowledge amongst our teams through Lunch Time Learn in sessions and actively encourage involvement and participation into this.

Culture

Culture

We are an open, friendly and supportive team who thrive in a flexible and autonomous environment. Our people are trusted to get on with things, adding value and individual contribution, whilst maintaining a good work life balance and ideally having fun along the way.

We want to ensure we cultivate our special culture and our focus is to maintain our exceptional engagement levels. We are proud to have been awarded the Sunday Times Best Place to Work for small businesses in 2023 and 2024, and also in 2025 after moving to the medium-sized business category.

Employee Owned

Employee Owned

Our employee ownership structure is central to our philosophy of making sure every Pi Person is part of our success story, contributing to how we run the business, and sharing in the profits. We know that being successful is not just down to numbers, it’s about our people who all contribute in their unique way to our success and creating a working environment where everyone has a voice.

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020 8879 6500

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Amanda Burden

Director and Governance Specialist

Amanda is a Board Director of Pi Partnership Group and leads the development of Pi’s services. She works closely with clients, the Pi team and professional advisers to ensure all of Pi’s services meet the changing needs of the pension market and deliver clear value to Pi’s clients.

Amanda has over twenty-five years’ experience in the pensions industry and, as well as ensuring Pi’s services continue to meet the needs of our clients in a rapidly changing pension landscape, is also a member of Pi’s Executive Management Team. She provides specialist project management for clients on a range of services, including adviser selection and review, trustee board assessment and governance design.

As well as being a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and Chair of the PMI London Group, Amanda holds PMI certificates in Pensions Automatic Enrolment and DC Governance, was a past Prince2 practitioner and is a Certified Risk Management Practitioner.

What do you most enjoy about your role:  Successfully delivering complex projects and creating a happy team environment.

Interests outside work: Travel, theatre and as part of Abundance London helping create beautiful spaces in urban settings.

Top achievement to date: Competing in the 2005/06 Round the World Clipper race.