Non-Executive Director and Panel Chair
Martin Coleman
Biography
Martin was appointed Panel Chair and Panel Inquiry Chair of the CMA on 19 September 2018 and has been a Non-executive Director of the Board since 1 October 2017. He is also a member of the Remuneration Committee.
Martin was a partner in the law firm, Norton Rose Fulbright, serving as a member of the firm’s management group until he retired in 2017. He currently serves as Deputy Chair of the Office for Students, the regulator for higher education in England. Martin is also a Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
Previous career highlights include:
- Leading the global competition practice of the global law firm, Norton Rose Fulbright, and serving as a member of the firm’s management group until he retired as a partner in 2017
- Co-author (with Michael Grenfell) of ‘The Competition Act 1998’ (Oxford University Press)
- Board member, and Chair of the Education and Training Committee, of the Solicitors Regulation Authority
- Council Member of the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK’s largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues
- Board member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England
Non-Executive Director and Panel Chair
Board members are responsible for:
- setting the organisation’s strategic direction and policy framework
- developing priorities
- monitoring performance against its objectives
- making decisions on Market Investigation References