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Robin Aaronson

Director of Forest of Dreams Ltd

Director of Akousis Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre

Jayne Almond

CEO of Stonehaven Equity Release UK Ltd

Non-executive Chairman of Squarestone Management Ltd

Treasurer, Holland Park Lawn Tennis Club

Professor John Baillie

Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow

Chair of the The Accounts Commission

Chair of Audit Scotland

John Cubbin

Emeritus Professor of Economics, City University

(previously Professor of Economics, Director of Centre of Competition and Regulatory Policy)

School Governor, Holly Trees Primary School, Brentwood
Part time consultant, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA)

Fellow, Royal Society of Arts

Previously Affiliate, LECG

Previously Part time consultant, NERA (until September 2005)

Part time consultant, Scottish Water (until September 2005)

Part time consultant, AOL Time Warner (until July 2004)

Part time consultant, Water UK (until May 2004)

Part time consultant, Orange (until April 2002)

Previously adviser to the Financial Services Authority

Roger Davis

Board member, Professional Oversight Board, Financial Reporting Council (until December 2009)

Carolan Dobson

In the near future, Ms Dobson may become an adviser to the North Yorkshire Pension Fund.

Independent Investment Advisor to the Environment Agency, the London Borough of Enfield , Staffordshire County Council, Buckinghamshire and Rhondda Cynon Tafs’ Pension Funds

Trustee Avon Pension Fund.

Non-Executive Director, Shires Smaller Companies plc

Council Member sportScotland

Trustee Golden Charter

Chairman Lomond School

Previously Director Abbey National Asset Managers plc (until 2004)

Non-Executive Director Securities and Investment Institute (until 2003)

Non-Executive Director British Waterways and Chairman of Pensions Committee (until 2001)

Barbara Donoghue

Non-executive director and Chairman of Audit Committee, Eniro AB

Director, Manzanita Capital

Member, Broadcasting Policy Group

Previously: Chair of broadcast industry board designing new structure for regulation of training, Ofcom (until April 2005)

Teaching Fellow, London Business School (until July 2004)

Member, Independent Television Commission (until December 2003)

Managing Director, Hawkpoint Partners (until 2001)

Member, Council of Management, Refuge

Member, Broadcasting Policy Group

Phil Evans

Previously Director Fipra International (until 2009), now Senior Consultant

Director Judo Economics

Visiting Fellow Said Business School, Centre for Corporate Reputation

Member of Advisory Board, American Antitrust Institute

Member International Advisory Board, Loyola Chicago University Consumer Antitrust Institute

Professor Simon Evenett

Professor, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Co-Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London (non-profit)

Visiting Professor, University of Michigan Business School

Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva

Visiting Lecturer, World Trade Institute and IELPO trade programme.

Consultant, World Bank, United Nations, International Development Research Centre.

Richard Farrant

Non-executive Director, Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Ltd.

Member, Disciplinary committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Member of Council, The National Trust.

Expert witness, Delta Asia Credit Ltd (Hong Kong)

Expert witness, Department of Justice of the United States

Previously, Chairman, Investigation Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (retired 2009)

Previously Chairman and Senior trustee, Sustrans (retired 2008)

Previously Vice Chairman, United Financial Japan plc (retired 2006)

Previously Chairman, Banking Code Standards Board Ltd (retired 2005)

Previously Member of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (retired 2003)

Previously Managing Director of the Financial Services Authority (Resigned 1999)

Previously Chief Executive of the Securities and Futures Authority (Resigned 1997)

Non-executive Director, Daiwa Fund Asset Services Ltd

Roger Finbow

Partner, Ashurst LLP (until May 2009); now a Consultant

Governor, College of Law

Chairman of Governors, Seckford Foundation

Chairman, City Solicitors Educational Trust

Advisory Board Member, Bright London

Development Board Member, Mansfield College, Oxford

Non-executive Director, British Universities & Colleges Sport

Non-executive Director, Ipswich Town plc

Non-executive Director, Anglia Pea Growers Limited

Ivar Grey

Non executive director of the Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board

Non-executive director of Finance Wales PLC

Forensic Accountant and expert witness in Court cases

Adviser to various charitable and business organizations.

Chairman of Kids in the Middle CIC

Governor of Port Regis School.

Chair of Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust until 30 September 2009

Part-time consultant, The Prince’s Trust – Cymru (until October 2004)

Previously Partner in KPMG until 2002

Jill Hill

Director of Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

Director of Varndean Park Estates Ltd

Council Member of The General Teaching Council of England

Previously Executive Director, Remploy Ltd

Previously Non-executive director, NDI Ltd

Previously Director, Hill Executive Action Ltd

Professor Thomas Hoehn

Partner, Global Head of Economics, at PwC (until November 2009)

Director Centre for Intellectual Property Imperial College Business School London

Committee Member UK Chapter British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce

Committee Member UK Chapter British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce

Director CompetitionRx Ltd - a specialist provider of Monitoring Trustee services and remedy advice to companies undertaking mergers and acquisitions in Europe and other jurisdictions or subject to state aid agreements.

As an academic competition economist he has written, and had published, articles relating to various sectors.

Katherine Holmes

Partner, Reed Smith LLP (until 31 August 2009), now a Consultant

AlexanderJohnston

External member of Finance Committee and chairman North West Cambridge Project Board, Cambridge University

Senior Adviser, Lilja & Co AG

Member, Thames Estuary Airport Steering Group

Ian Jones

Director, Croft Consulting Services, Ltd

Lay Member, NHS South West Regional Panel for Cooperation and Competition

Previously Director, NERA Economic Consulting (until September 2003)

Peter Jones

Executive Director, Rhydfach Consulting Limited

Non-executive Director, National Nuclear Laboratory from 1 August 2009 (Ministerial appointment by the Minister for Energy and Climate Change)

1971 year group representative, Clare College, Cambridge (voluntary)

Previously Managing Director, Corporate Finance and Advisory, HSBC Bank plc (until June 2003)

Consultancy contract through Rhydfach Consulting Limited, HSBC Bank plc (until June 2004)

Consultancy contract through Rhydfach Consulting Limited, Shareholder Executive, June 2004 - May 2005

Consultancy contract through Rhydfach Consulting Limited, British Nuclear Fuels plc, May 2005 – August 2008

Consultancy contract through Rhydfach Consulting Limited, HFL Limited, 2005

Consultancy contract through Rhydfach Consulting Limited, EnergySolutions (EU) Limited, 2007-8

Consultancy contract through Rhydfach Consulting Limited, Royal Mail Group, 2009

John Longworth

Non Executive Director of the Cooperative Group, Food Board

Director of SVA Ltd (Scientific and Professional Services)

Provides Commercial and Marketing assistance to Barts and the London Trust.

Former Executive Main Board Director of Asda Group

Former Senior Director at Tesco Stores Ltd and the CWS (Cooperative Group).

Former non-executive director of York Healthcare Trust

Former non-executive director of the British Retail Consortium.

Former economic spokesman for the CBI

Former Chairman of the Distributive Trades Panel

Former Chairman of the Paris-based CIES International Product Standards and Trade Panel

Former Health and Safety Commissioner and Chairman of the HSE Audit Committee

Bruce Lyons

Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia

Associate Editor of Economica

Provides Commercial and Marketing assistance to Barts and the London Trust.

Member Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP) to the European Commission

Occasional consultant to the European Commission

Expert Witness for the British Horseracing Board

Professor Robin Mason

Eric Roll Professor of Economic Policy, University of Southampton (until 2009)

Director, Centre for Research in the Information Economy, University of Southampton (until 2009)

Professor of Economics, University of Exeter (from 2009)

Research Fellow, CEPR

Member of Research Grants Board, Economics and Social Research Council

Director, Netcon Ltd (until 2009)

Previously: Part time consultant, Orange

Previously: Part time consultant, BT

Previously: Part time consultant, Ofcom

Previously: Part time consultant, Ofgem

Previously: Part time consultant, Comreg

Previously: Part time consultant, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA)

Previously: Part time consultant, Prime Minister of Mauritius

Course co-ordinator, Government Economics Service

Course instructor, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Tony Morris

Partner, Linklaters (until May 2009)

 

Malcolm Nicholson

Freelance consultant on competition issues

Non-executive director of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (from 1 January 2010)

Non-executive director of the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (from 1 July 2010)

Formerly, partner of Slaughter and May, Solicitors (from 1982 to 2009)

Stephen Oram

Executive Chairman, London Press Club

Non-Executive Chairman, SHOPS (National Newspaper Advertising Consumer Protection Scheme)

National Secretary, Western Front Association

Trustee: OPUS (Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) Ltd

Chief Executive, Newspaper Publishers Association (until 2007)

Livery Committee: The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (until 2009)

Member of Reform Club

Member of Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Member of Wiener Library

Friends of the Imperial War Museum

Friends of the Estorick Colection

Member National Trust

Trustee: OPUS (Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) Ltd (until 2009)

Trustee and Housing Committee: Printers’ Charitable Corporation Ltd (until 2009)

Trustee: National Printing Heritage Trust Ltd (until 2009)

Director: Audit Bureau of Circulations Ltd (until 2007)

Director: Press Standards Board of Finance Ltd (until 2006)

Director: Advertising Standards Board of Finance Ltd (until 2007)

Committee of Directors and Chairman of Sports Media Rights Working Group: World Association of Newspapers (until 2007)

Executive Committee and Council: Advertising Association (until 2007)

Jeremy Peat

Director David Hume Institute

Trustee for Scotland, BBC

Honorary Professor, Heriot Watt University

Board member of Signet Accreditation Limited

Chair of BBC Pension Trust

Columnist for the Herald

Previously Group Chief Economist, Royal Bank of Scotland (until March 2005)

Ed Smith

Board Member-Department for Transport & Chair, Group Audit Committee

Chairman-WWF-UK and Member-WWF International Board

Chairman-British Universities & Colleges Sport

Member of Council & Treasurer, Chatham House  

Board Member-DEMOS

Board Member and Treasurer, The Work Foundation

Deputy Chairman, Managing Partners Forum

Board member (and Deputy Chair )–HEFCE

Pro-Chancellor & Chairman (elect), University of Birmingham

Previously senior partner and Global Assurance Chief Operating Officer and Strategy Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers

John Smith

Associate, Indepen Consulting Limited

Independent consultant

Non-executive member of the Board for the Marine & Fisheries Agency (MFA) (from November 2005 - March 2010)

Chair, Groundwork North London

Previously: Member of Independent Steering Group, OFWAT (from September 2004 until August 2005)

Independent consultant, Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and OFWAT (until November 2003)

Associate, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (until July 2003)

 

Anthony Stern

Director, IC Hotels UK Pension Trust Ltd

Trustee, ACT Educational Trust

Fellow, Association of Corporate Treasurers

Previously Freelance author, Economist Intelligence Unit (until July 2004)

Head of Treasury, Bass and InterContinental Hotels Group (until December 2003)

 

Tony Stoller

Deputy Chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust

Chair of the Committee of Reference, Friends Provident Stewardship Funds

Lay Member, Information Tribunal

Editor, The Friends Quarterly

Visiting Fellow, Bournemouth University Media School and commercial radio Historian

Previously Chief Executive, Radio Authority (until 2003), External relations Director Ofcom (until 2005)

Professor Sudi Sudarsanam

Professor of Finance & Corporate Control; Director, MSc in Finance and Management, Cranfield School of Management

Associate Editor, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting

Previously Visiting professor, Donau University, University of Vienna, University of Innsbruck, Austria, University of Szczecin, Poland, Santa Clara University, California, USA, ALBA Graduate Business School, Athens, Greece

Author of Essence of Mergers and Acquisitions and of Creating value from mergers and acquisitions; the challenges, (both Financial Times Prentice Hall)

Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at the Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre, Cass Business School, London; Affiliate of Centre for Management Buyout Research, University of Nottingham

Richard Taylor

Trustee and Non-executive director Eating Disorders Association

Trustee / Non-executive director, Beating Bowel Cancer

Previously: Consultant, CMS Cameron McKenna (until April 2005)

Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna (until April 2004)

Michael Waterson

Professor of Economics, University of Warwick

Chair, Network of Industrial Economics (until end 2009)

Member, Scientific Advisory Panel, DIW Berlin

Member, advisory panel, Centre for Competition Policy UEA until September 2009

Chairman, Utility Appeals Panel, Bailiwick of Guernsey (until end 2007)

Adviser on promotions, London School of Economics (no longer active)

External Examiner, undergraduate degrees in Economics, University of Edinburgh (until September 2008)

Training Lecturer for Europe Economics on behalf of Government clients including the Office of Fair Trading and others involved in competition matters (now ceased)

Previously Ad hoc advice on switching project for OFGEM, Frontier Economics (until March 2004)

Ad hoc report on some old cases. Provision of economic advice, Competition Commission (until April 2005)

Ad hoc discussion of supply competition in electricity / gas, DTe (Dutch Energy Regulator) (until April 2004)

Ad hoc work on consumer empowerment issues, DTI (until December 2004)

Special Advisor, Subcommittee B of the European Union Committee, House of Lords (until October 2006)

External examiner and assessor, MSc Management/Interdisciplinary Institute of Management, London School of Economics (until November 2005)

Member, Home Office Advisory Panel, 2006-8

Member, Expert Panel, West Midlands Transport Infrastructure Forum, 2006, 2007

As an academic competition economist he has written, and had published, articles relating to various sectors.

Jonathan Whiticar

Director, Maple House Consulting Limited

Non-executive Director of Countrywide Principal Services Limited

Trustee & Treasurer, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Community Foundation

Previously Member of the Greater London Development Committee, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (2003 and 2004)

Previously Managing Director, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (until January 2005)

Roger Witcomb

Non-executive Director, Anglian Water Group

Non-executive Director, Infraco Ltd

Non-executive Director, Andrew and Partners

Chair of Governors, University of Winchester

Trustee, Opportunity International UK

Non-executive Director, Utilita Ltd (until 2009)

Non-executive Director, Renewable Energy Holdings plc

Fiona Woolf

Non-executive Director, Three Valleys PLC (now Veolia Central Limited)

Consultant, CMS Cameron McKenna

Senior Adviser, London Economics International LLC

(Occasional) Consultant, World Bank

Alderman in the City of London

Trustee of Raleigh International

Previously President, Law Society of England & Wales

Previously Member of expert panel, Siepac Project (Central American Regional Electricity Market)

Previously Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna (until April 2004)