Professor Catherine Waddams (appointed 2001) is Professor at Norwich Business School and founding Director of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia. She is a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of California Berkeley and at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Leicester. She has published widely on the economics of regulation, competition and gains from utility reform. Her current research interests focus on consumer choice and its role in competition policy and on the distributional effects of utility reform.