The Church Commissioners for England has appointed Rosie Slater-Carr as Chief Executive, confirming in the permanent role the executive who has led the endowment on an interim basis since March 2026.
The announcement was made on 3 September 2026 and the appointment is effective immediately. Slater-Carr becomes the first woman to hold the post. She succeeds John Worth.
An internal progression
Slater-Carr stepped up to interim Chief Executive from the role of Chief Operating Officer, and has therefore been running the organisation through a period in which the alternative was an external search. Confirming an interim in post is a decision boards take when the interim period has answered the question the search was meant to answer, and it removes the uncertainty that a prolonged recruitment imposes on an investment organisation.
What the Commissioners do
The Church Commissioners manage a substantial endowment whose returns support the work of the Church of England, including clergy pensions and the funding of dioceses. It is an institutional investor of meaningful scale operating with an explicit ethical framework, which makes it an unusual hybrid: it faces the same return pressures as any long horizon endowment while being accountable to a constituency that scrutinises how those returns are earned as closely as the returns themselves.
That dual accountability has become more demanding rather than less. Endowments with values based mandates have spent the past several years navigating questions about extractive industries, about the governance of the companies they hold, and about the historic origins of the capital they steward. The Commissioners have engaged publicly with the last of those, which places reputational as well as financial judgement in the chief executive's remit.
The operating inheritance
Coming from the chief operating officer role gives Slater-Carr a grounding in the institutional machinery rather than solely in investment strategy. For an organisation whose investment decisions are made within a governance structure involving trustees and church bodies, that operational fluency is more relevant than it would be at a conventional asset manager, because a good deal of the work is translating investment judgement into decisions the governance structure can take.
The appointment also completes a leadership sequence. Having run the organisation for roughly six months before confirmation, Slater-Carr takes the permanent role with a working knowledge of the portfolio and the calendar, which means the usual first hundred days of orientation are already behind her.
For the wider institutional investment community in the United Kingdom, the move registers as continuity at one of the more distinctive pools of long term capital in the market, and as another senior investment leadership role filled internally rather than through an external search.
