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