Corporate report

Inquiry chairs' biographies

Updated 16 July 2024

Martin Coleman - Panel Chair

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. Martin is co-author (with Michael Grenfell) of ‘The Competition Act 1998’ (Oxford University Press).

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Kirstin Baker

Kirstin was appointed a Panel Inquiry Chair and Panel Member Non-executive Director of the CMA in September 2018, stepping down from the board in March 2024. She is also a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Kirstin had a long career in the civil service and was most recently HM Treasury’s Finance and Commercial Director. Earlier in her career Kirstin was part of the senior team leading the Treasury’s response to the banking crisis and was awarded a CBE for this work.

Kirstin has also worked as a competition official in the European Commission, as an EU policy adviser in the Cabinet Office and as a senior civil servant in the Scottish Government, leading work on infrastructure investment banks.

Disclosures of interest

Richard Feasey

Richard Feasey

Richard was appointed an Inquiry Chair of the CMA in April 2021, having been appointed a panel member in October 2017. He is a member of the CMA’s specialist utility panel. He was Group Public Policy Director at Vodafone Group plc between 2001 and 2013 and worked in the telecommunications industry prior to that. He currently serves as an adviser in the global telecommunications sector, a Senior Adviser at the Centre on Regulation in Europe and lectures at King’s College London. Previously he was a member of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales, a senior adviser of the Payment Systems Regulator, a special adviser to the House of Lords EU Select Committee, a Senior International Adviser to Wiley Rein LLP in Washington DC, an Associate at Frontier Economics and an Advisory Board Member at Gigaclear plc.

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Stuart McIntosh

Stuart was appointed an Inquiry Chair of the CMA in April 2018, having been appointed a panel member in October 2017. He is a member of the CMA’s specialist utility panel. He is an economist and specialist in regulatory Economics. He was previously an executive Board Member and Group Director at Ofcom, the communications regulator. Prior to that he held senior positions in several private sector organisations including PwC and IBM.

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Kip Meek

Kip was appointed an Inquiry Chair of the CMA in November 2018. Kip was a founder of Communications Chambers and until recently was a Senior Adviser for EE and BT. Between 2003 and 2007, Kip was a Board member of Ofcom where he held a variety of responsibilities, including chairing the European Regulators Group.

Before joining Ofcom, he was founder and Managing Director of Spectrum Strategy Consultants (Spectrum). Spectrum provided strategy consulting services to telecoms and media companies, from offices in London, Singapore, Sydney and Rio de Janeiro.

Kip is chairman of Ascension, a venture capital business, of an ad tech business, A Million Ads, of Sitenna , a business which supports the mobile industry and of Jangala, a charity providing connectivity in refugee camps and other deprived environments. He was previously the chairman of the Radiocentre and of South West Screen (which he amalgamated with Creative England in January 2012). He was also the first independent chairman of YouView. He was appointed ‘Independent Spectrum Broker’ by the UK Government in February 2009. He was a board member of the Wireless Infrastructure Group until its purchase by Brookfield in December 2019 and remains an adviser to the group.

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Margot Daly

Margot was appointed an Inquiry Chair of the CMA in September 2021, having been appointed a panel member in May 2020. She is currently a non-executive board director and chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at NAAFI, the organisation that provides hospitality and retails services to British servicemen and women around the world. She is also chair of the board of trustees at Gamcare, the UK leading provider of clinical and education services for problem gamblers and affected others. She serves as an ad hoc independent business consultant. Previously she held Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer positions in FTSE listed and privately held companies, served as a non-executive director at Sport Resolutions UK and most recently as a panel member at the Competition Appeal Tribunal. She holds a master’s in competition economics from King’s College London with a focus on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

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