Land Securities Group PLC (Landsec) has appointed Moni Mannings as an independent non-executive director and senior independent director designate.

Mannings will join the board as a non-executive director and become a member of the nomination and remuneration committees from today. She will succeed Edward Bonham Carter as senior independent director on 1 April 2024.

Mannings is currently an independent non-executive director of Hargreaves Lansdown plc, non-executive director and chair of the remuneration committee of easyJet plc and a member of The Takeover Panel watchdog.

Mannings founded EPOC, a not-for-profit network that seeks to increase the number of people of colour on boards. She is a member of the Parker Review Committee.

From 2000 until 2016, Mannings was a partner and head of the international banking and finance division of Olswang LLP, before which she held senior positions in other leading law firms. She has in the past held NED positions at Cazoo Group Ltd, Polypipe Group plc, Dairy Crest Group plc, Breedon Group plc and Investec Bank plc.

Landsec also announced that, with a successor now in position, Edward Bonham Carter would retire from the board at the AGM in July 2024. When he retires, Bonham Carter will have served on the Landsec board for more than 10 years, including acting as senior independent director from 2016.

Sir Ian Cheshire, Landsec’s chair, commented: “I am very excited to welcome Moni to the board as a non-executive director and as our future senior independent director. Moni is a highly experienced and respected City lawyer with extensive property financing experience and also brings her experience of being a senior independent director and committee chair from other non-executive roles.”