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Debbie Hewitt MBE

Role: Compare the Market Limited and Group Independent Non-Executive Chair and Chair of the Compare the Market Limited Nomination Committee.

Appointed: June 2020, Independent Non-Executive Chair, Compare the Market Limited. (Prior to this she was an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Group parent company, BGL (Holdings) Limited from September 2011 and subsequently appointed as Chair of that Board in July 2018).   

Committee membership: Chair of Nomination Committee, member of Board Risk and Remuneration Committees  

Debbie was previously CEO for the RAC and also currently serves as Non-Executive Chair of Visa Europe, The Football Association and Chair of Euro 2028.  She became the first elected female British Vice President of World Governing Football Body FIFA Council in 2023.  

Debbie holds an MBA (distinction) from Bath University. She was awarded an MBE for services to Business and the Public Sector in the New Year Honours List in 2011 and in 2021, was awarded Chartered Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (Chartered CCIPD), recognising outstanding and distinguished service to the people profession. In 2022 she was awarded the Honorary Degree Doctor of Business Administration by Nottingham Trent University, in recognition of her significant contribution to Business and the Public Sector and in 2024, was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by London Business School for achieving outstanding distinction in business, commerce and public affairs.   

She was the first female MD of RAC plc in its 125 year history and is the first female Chair of the Football Association in its 157 year history. In 2021, she was included in the Vogue 25 – British Vogue’s annual list of the UK’s most influential women.