Corporate report

Disclosures of interest

Updated 16 July 2024

Martin Coleman - Panel Chair and Panel Inquiry Chair

Roles held at present

• Non-executive Director of the Board, CMA
• Panel Chair and Panel Inquiry Chair, CMA
• Member, Remuneration Committee, CMA
• Deputy Chair, Office for Students
• Fellow, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
• Board member, Solicitors Regulation Authority
• Board member, Higher Education Funding Council for England
• Council Member, Economic and Social Research Council
• Member, Council of the University of Kent
• Trustee, Police Now

Kirstin Baker - Inquiry Chair

Roles held at present

• Panel Inquiry Chair, CMA
• Non-executive Director, The Pensions Regulator
• Independent Member, Council of Sussex University
• Member, Audit Committee, Clarion Housings

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Panel Member Non-executive Director of the Board, CMA
• Member, Competition Appeal Tribunal
• Group Finance and Commercial Director, HM Treasury
• Non-executive Director, UK Financial Investments
• Non-executive Director, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust
• Non-executive Advisor Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust

Jo Armstrong

Roles held at present

• Chair, Accounts Commission of Audit Scotland
• Chair, Wheatley Group
• Chair, HUB West of Scotland
• Member, Water Industry Commission for Scotland

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Member, Institute of Directors Scotland Advisory Board
• Chair, OFGEM Electricity Network Innovation Expert Panel

Humphrey Battcock

Roles held at present

• Non-executive Director and Chair of Remuneration Committee, Cambridge Innovation Capital plc
• Board member, Centre for Homelessness Impact
• Board member, Campaign Board, Cambridge University
• Trustee and Chair, Institute for Research in Schools
• Trustee, Sadler’s Wells
• Trustee, Teach First

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Trustee and member of Remuneration, Finance and Audit Committees, Woodland Trust
• Board Member, Industrial Development Advisory Board

Robin Cohen

Roles held at present

• Director, Robin Cohen Consulting
• Non-Executive Member, UK Endorsement Board

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Vice President, Charles River Associates
• Partner, Deloitte

Maria Da Cunha

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist communications and utility panels
• Non-Executive Director, International Distribution Services Ltd
• Non-Executive Director, London & Quadrant Housing Trust

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Non-Executive Director, De La Rue plc
• Trustee, Community Integrated Care
• Director, People & Legal, British Airways plc

Margot Daly

Roles held at present

• Non-Executive Board Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, NAAFI
• Chair of the Board of Trustees, GamCare
• Director of a small housing association (relating to Ms Daly’s private residence)

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Panel Member, Competition Appeal Tribunal
• Non-Executive Director, Sport Resolutions
• Consumer Redress Adjudicator, CISAS
• Consultant, Rise+Shine Films

Richard Feasey

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist utility panel
• Director, Fronfraith Ltd
• Senior Adviser, Centre on Regulation in Europe

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Member, National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
• Senior Adviser, Payment Systems Regulator
• Associate, Frontier Economics
• Advisory Board Member, Gigaclear plc
• Senior International Adviser, Wiley Rein LLP

Anne Fletcher

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist utility panel
• Member, The Pensions Regulator’s Determinations Panel

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Independent Member, Audit & Risk Committee, Office of the Public Guardian

Robin Foster

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Non-Executive Member, Ofcom Content Board
• Member, Advertising Advisory Committee
• Director, Communications Chambers
• Independent Director, Authority for TV On-Demand
• Independent Member, Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board

Roland Green

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist communications and utility panels

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Deputy General Counsel, Senior Policy Director, Competition and Markets Authority
• Chief Legal Adviser, Competition Commission

Ashleye Gunn

Roles held at present

• Customer Chair, Independent Net Zero Advisory Council for Scottish Power Energy Networks 
• Member, Cadent Customer Challenge Group

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Member, UK Power Networks Customer Engagement Group for RIIO-2 
• Member, Ofgem RIIO Stakeholder Engagement and Consumer Vulnerability Panel 
• Member, Scottish Power Transmission User Group for T2

Susan Hankey

Roles held at present

• Trustee of certain charitable trusts for music (orchestra and choral society) in Wales

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Member, CMA specialist communications and utility panels
• Partner (1998-2015) and Consultant (2015-16) at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

Publications

• Susan has published articles and spoken at conferences on competition law topics in a variety of industries.

Ulrike Hotopp

Roles held at present

• Member of the Competition Decisions Committee, Financial Conduct Authority
• Member of the Competition Decisions Committee and Enforcement Decisions Committee, Payment Systems Regulator
• Council of the Society of Professional Economists (unpaid)
• Member of the Code Change Panel, Market Operator Services Limited (MOSL)
• Member of the Enforcement decision panel at Ofgem
• Director of LIVE Economics Ltd
• Reader at the University of Kent

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Member of the Advisory Council of the School for Business and Management at Queen Mary College, University of London (unpaid)
• Governor at Nightingale Primary School, Hackney
• Non-Executive Director at the Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture
• Member of the Regulatory Board, UK and Ireland, of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
• Member of the Council of the UK Evaluation Society (unpaid)
• Trustee at the Wildheart Foundation (a charity supporting young people in Southern Africa)

Paul Hughes

Roles held at present

• Member, Register of Experts, Federated States of Micronesia Appeals Panel

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Consultant, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP (Australia)
• Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP (Australia)

Colleen Keck

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist communications and utility panels
• Deputy Chair, Copyright Tribunal
• Non-Executive Director, City Music Limited
• Non-Executive Director, Building 15 Management Company Limited
• Director/Governor, Live Music Now

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• General Counsel and Company Secretary, Parkinson’s UK

Juliet Lazarus

Roles at present

• Independent Member, Provider Risk Committee, Office for Students
• Member, Ofgem Enforcement Decision Panel

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• General Counsel and Director of Competition, Office of Rail and Road
• Trustee, Re-Vision (charity providing counselling and psychotherapy training and low cost counselling services)

Sheila McClelland

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist communications panel
• Interim Director, Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment
• NI Committee Member, Heritage Lottery Fund
• Trustee and board member, Community Relations Council for Northern Ireland
• Director, Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas
• NI Committee Member, Heritage Lottery Fund
• NI Committee Member, North Belfast Housing
• NI Committee Member, Kilcreggan Homes, Carrickfergus
• Founder and Chief Executive, Prissm Solutions
• Interim Chief Executive, Nursing and Midwifery Board in Ireland

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Chair, Consumer Council for Northern Ireland 2015-2018
• Chief Executive and Town Clerk, Carrickfergus Borough Council 2012-2015
• Head of Outreach and Education at the NI Assembly 2008-2011

Stuart McIntosh

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist utility panel

Frances McLeman

Roles held at present

• Member, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, CMA
• Trustee and committee member of a Hertfordshire choral society
• Governor/Director of St Albans School (an independent day school in Hertfordshire)

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Head of Ring Fencing Legal, Lloyds Banking Group

Kip Meek

Roles held at present

• Panel Inquiry Chair, CMA
• Chairman, Ascension Ventures
• Chairman, A Million Ads
• Adviser, Wireless Infrastructure Group
• Founder and Director, Communications Chambers
• Chair, Sitenna

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Non-Executive Director and Chairman, RadioCentre Senior Advisor, BT and EE
• Non-Executive Director, Wireless Infrastructure Group

Cyrus Mehta

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Consultant, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
• Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
• Partner, Nabarro LLP

Paul Muysert

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist communications, payment systems and utility panels

Jeremy Newman

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist newspaper and payment systems panels
• Chair, Workforce Development Trust
• Non-Executive Director, Open Banking Ltd
• Director, and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, Clarion Housing Group
• Board Member and Trustee, The Frontline Organisation
• Board Member and Trustee, World Jewish Relief
• Honorary Visiting Professor, Bayes Business School
• Trustee of a number of private charitable trusts
• Lead Reviewer, Review of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (an Executive Non Departmental Body of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Chair of Trustees and a Trustee, Finchley Jewish Primary School Trust
• Lead Reviewer, Independent Review of the Civil Aviation Authority
• Chair, Optionis Group
• Member of the Council and of the Finance Committee, Open University
• Member, Board of Governors and Chair of the Audit Committee of North Hertfordshire College/Hart Learning Group
• Deputy Chair, Lead Non-Executive and Chair of Audit & Risk Committee, Government Legal Department
• Non-Executive Board member and Chair of Audit & Risk Committee, Crown Prosecution Service
• Member, Regulatory Decisions Committee (RDC) of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
• Non-Executive, Social Investment Business Foundation, a director of its subsidiary, Social Investment Business Limited and Chair of the Group Audit & Finance Committee
• Member, Board of Social and Sustainable Capital LLP

Sir Kenneth Parker

Roles held at present

• Judicial Commissioner, Investigatory Powers Commission
• Legal Chair for the Disciplinary Tribunal, Financial Reporting Council

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• High Court Judge, King’s Bench Division

Keith Richards

Roles held at present

• CMA nominated Non-Executive Board Member on the Private Health Information Network (PHIN)
• Lay Member, General Chiropractic Council (GCC)
• Co-Chair, Heathrow Airport Access Advisory Group (HAAG)
• Member, CMA specialist communications panel
• Chair, Disabled Person Transport Advisory Committee
• Chair, Renewable Energy Consumer Codes Non-Compliance Panel
• Member, Air Travel Insolvency Protection Advisory Committee
• Member, Financial Services Consumer Panel
• Board Member, Transport Focus
• Non-Executive Director at ECPAT UK
• Lay Member, General Chiropractic Council

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Chair, CAA Consumer Panel

Stephen Rose

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Consultant, Eversheds-Sutherland (International) LLP
• Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland (International) LLP
• Director, Brandspoke Limited
• Director, Newton Rose Consulting Limited

Karthik Subramanya

Roles held at present

• Senior Advisor, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
• Board Member, Scottish Enterprise
• Managing Director and Owner, Carnatic Capital Limited
• Board Member, Changing the Chemistry (SCIO)
• Director, GMS Wind Limited

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Non-Executive Director, Our Power
• Director of Strategy and Performance, SSE PLC
• Board Member, Creative Scotland

John Thanassoulis

Roles held at present

• Professor of Financial Economics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
• Associate Dean, Bank of England Partnership
• Associate Member, Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford
• Research Fellow, CEPR
• Treasurer, Blackfriars Overseas Aid Trust (B.O.A.T.) (Charity Commission number 288585)

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Associate Dean and Board member, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

David Thomas

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist utility panel
• Member, Civil Aviation Authority, Consumer Panel
• Member, Competition Decisions Committee, Financial Conduct Authority
• Member, Competition Decisions Committee and Enforcement Decisions Committee, Payment Systems Regulator
• Advisory Panel Member, Financial Reporting Council
• Director, DT Economics

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Partner, KPMG LLP

Claire Whyley

Roles held at present

• Member, CMA specialist utility panel
• Specialist consultant - consumers and service inclusion
• Member, Advertising Advisory Committee
• Member, Civil Aviation Authority Consumer Panel
• Member, Finance and Leasing Association Lending Code Board and Disciplinary Panel
• Member H7 Consumer Challenge Board
• Member, LendersCompared Governance Board
• Member, New Payment Services Organisation (NPSO) End User Advisory Council
• Member, Competition Decisions Committee, Financial Conduct Authority
• Member, Competition Decisions Committee and Enforcement Decisions Committee, Payment Systems Regulator
• Member, Strategic Stakeholder Group, Scottish and Southern Energy
• Member, Consumer Code for Homebuilders
• Trustee, Member of Grants Committee and Audit and Risk Committee, Money Advice Trust
• Member, Office of Rail and Road Consumer Expert Panel
• Deputy chair (south of England), SGN, Customer Engagement Group
• Independent Panel Member, Water Redress Scheme (WATRS)

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Member, Financial Services Consumer Panel
• Member, Stakeholder Engagement and Incentive Panel
• Director, Sliced Bread Consulting Ltd

Crispin Wright

Roles held at present

• President, Carthusian Society (a charity associated with Charterhouse School)
• Member, Investment Committee, Merton College

Previous roles held within the last 5 years

• Senior Adviser, Rothschild and Co
• Trustee, Royal Mint Museum