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TRA board members’ register of declared interests

Updated 17 February 2025

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TRA board members register of declared interests

This list sets out declared interests of executive and non-executive members who are serving on the Trade Remedies Authority’s Board as at 1 February 2025.

Board members are asked to declare any current or previous (up to two years) personal, business or related interests that may, or may be perceived by a reasonable member of the public, to influence their judgements in performing their obligations to the TRA.

The list is categorised into:

  • Sources of remuneration
  • Contracts
  • Shares and securities
  • Houses, lands and buildings
  • Non-financial interests
  • Related party interests
  • Other

All gifts & hospitality have been declared on the appropriate register.

Nick Baird

Sources of remuneration:

  • Nick Baird Consulting Ltd: Director
  • Portman Group: Chair
  • Ted ‘n’ Ivy Ltd: Director
  • Westminster Foundation for Democracy: Consultancy work

Houses, land and buildings:

  • Owner of holiday let property

Non-financial interests:

  • British Association for Turkish Area Studies: Honorary President
  • Carers UK Charity: Chair
  • Cheltenham Ladies College: Council member
  • FCOCLCHK: Director (connected to above role)
  • Kew Society: Patron
  • Palace Yard: Member of Pathways to Net Zero group

Previous roles:

  • Cheltenham Ladies College: Chair (until 2023)

  • Kew Foundation Charity: Trustee (until 2023)

Related party interests:

  • Currys plc: family member works there.

John Hughes

Source of remuneration:

  • Blessed Investment incorporating Abkons & ARC: Chair of Advisory Board
  • JCH Global Consulting Ltd: Managing Director
  • Marlow Global: Chair of Governance Board

Non-financial interests:

  • FCDO: Lead reviewer of the Tripartite Scholarship scheme (until April 2023)

Related party interests:

  • PwC Strategy: family member works there.
  • University College London: family member works there.

Adam Marshall

Sources of remuneration:

  • AJBM Services Ltd: Director
  • Estates and Agency Holdings Ltd: Advisory Board Member
  • Flint Global: Specialist Partner
  • Glasswall Ltd: Advisory Council Member
  • HSBC UK: Senior Adviser
  • Opus: Advisory Board member

Previous roles:

  • Chartered Management Institute: Senior Advisor (until 2023)

Shares and securities

  • AJBM Services Ltd: sole shareholder

Non-financial interests:

  • Industry and Parliamentary Trust: Non-Executive Director and Trustee

Related party interests:

  • Janssen-Cilag Ltd: family member is employed there

Oliver Griffiths

Sources of remuneration:

  • Group Director, Online Safety, Ofcom (from 17 March 2025)

Non-financial interests:

  • Global Climate Partnership Fund: Director

Clare Brodie

Houses, land and buildings:

  • Owns a rental property which has been rented privately since March 2018

Steven O’Donoghue

Non-financial interests:

  • GIAA: personal friendship with the Chair
  • Joy Transformation International Leadership Academy: personal friendship with owner
  • Welsh Government: personal friendship with Director of People & Places

Related party interests:

  • University of Swansea: family member is employed there as an Associate Professor

Patricia Gallan

Sources of renumeration:

  • Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust: Vice Chair (Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Non-Executive Director) (NHS North West London Acute Provide Collaborative: Non-Executive Director)
  • HMRC: Non-Executive Director

Non-financial interests:

  • Drapers’ Brookside Infant and Junior School: Vice Chair and Governor
  • Drapers’ Multi Academy Trust: Trustee
  • Queen Mary University, London: External Council Member

Previous roles:

  • Drapers’ Brookside Infant and Junior School: Chair (until July 2024)

Guita Blake

Sources of remuneration:

  • Mindtree Ltd: Head of Europe and Global Management Council member

Houses, land and buildings:

  • Owner of rental properties

Non-financial interests:

  • Board Advisor to a portfolio of UK Tech-led Start-up/Scale-up companies including CARNOT Ltd, P2i Ltd, Koolmill Systems Ltd, Pantopic Cyber Ltd, Distinction Ltd.
  • Be-the-Business: Board Advisor.
  • Professional Network: Mentor

Related party interests:

  • Hitachi Europe Ltd: Family member employed there.
  • Savills Plc: Family member employed there.
  • Southeby’s: Family member employed there.

Previous:

  • CapGemini: Family member employed there until 2013.

John Alty 

Sources of renumeration: 

  • Competition Appeal Tribunal: Panel member 

  • Pagefield: Adviser 

Non-financial interests: 

  • Chartered Institute of Export and International Trade: Trustee Director 

  • London School of Economics: Visiting Professor in practice

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