Appointment of new non-executive board members

Non-Executive Board Members (NEBMs) are individuals with senior level management or non-executive experience who sit on the Department's boards in an independent capacity.

They are recruited via fair and open competition, which takes into account the code of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments as best practice.

NEBMs provide a valuable external perspective and ensure that executive members of the Boards are supported and constructively challenged in their role.
The BERR Non-Executive Board Members are:

Management Board
Arnoud De Meyer
Roger Urwin
Fields Wicker-Miurin
Brian Woods-Scawen

Operating Committee
Jean Irvine
Claire Ighodaro
Timothy Walton

Audit & Risk Committee
Brian Woods-Scawen (chair)
Barry Rourke
Bryan Jackson
Darrel Sheinman
Hunada Nouss

Enterprise & Business Group Advisory Board
Andrew Cates
Bonnie Dean
Bryan Jackson
Eric Peacock
Martin Temple

Fair Markets Group Board
Robert Douglas
Alan Jones
Swag Mukerji
Janet Rubin

Energy Group Advisory Board
Bernard Bulkin
David Newkirk
Darrel Sheinman
Hunada Nouss

Legal Services Group Board
Frances Nash
Iain Robertson
Ros Wright

Bernard Bulkin
Non-Executive Member, Energy Group Board

Bernie Bulkin was born in a New Jersey farmhouse and received his education on the streets of New York and at several fine universities. Today he is recognized as a leader in energy, technology and education. He was an academic scientist in New York City for 18 years, also holding management positions as Dean or Arts & Sciences and Vice President for Research & Graduate Affairs, and was the Director of the Institute of Imaging Sciences.

He joined Standard Oil in 1985, and following its acquisition by BP moved to London, where he held positions of increasing responsibility including Director, Manufacturing and Supply, Chief Technology Officer BP Oil, Vice President Environmental Affairs, and Chief Scientist. He retired from BP at the end of 2003 and was elected as a Professorial Fellow of New Hall University of Cambridge in 2004.

Now in his third career, Dr Bulkin is Chairman of AEA Technology plc and of the Swedish company Chemrec AB, a Venture Partner of California venture capital firm Vantage Point, Member of the Boards of Severn Trent plc, and Accelergy Corporation. His charitable activities include membership of the Council of the Royal Institution and the Advisory Council of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In the UK public sector he is a member of the Sustainable Development Commission, where he is Chair for Energy and Transport. He frequently appears on radio and television discussing aspects of energy, climate change, and policy issues.

He is the author of more than 100 papers and two books. Dr Bulkin is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the Energy Institute. He is the winner of the Coblentz Award, the Society of Applied Spectroscopy Gold Medal, the Oscar Foster Award in Science Education, Sigma Xi Distinguished Research Citation, and Purdue University Distinguished Alumnus Award.

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Andrew Cates
Non-Executive Member, Enterprise & Business Group Advisory Board

Andrew Cates has a MA in Mathematics (first class hons) and a PhD (1989) both from the University of Cambridge, where he was also a post-doctoral research fellow at Emmanuel College. He has held half a dozen significant board and CEO appointments in the Shell Group and its joint ventures in the UK and abroad 1993-2003, culminating in being the youngest ever “senior executive” at Shell, as Chief Executive of Shell Energy from 1999 until the end of 2003, when he left to join the charitable sector. Since 2003 he has been Chief Executive of SOS Children’s Villages UK.

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Bonnie Dean
Non-Executive Member, Enterprise & Business Group Advisory Board

Bonnie was raised and education in the United States. She has a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Stanford University and a masters of business administration from Harvard Business School.

Throughout most of her career she has been involved in the engineering and manufacturing sector with a focus on strategy, new product and market development and change management. She has held senior positions with US multinationals as well as with smaller privately funded companies. She has also worked extensively in Europe, India, the Middle East and Asia.

Bonnie is a member of the Design Council and chairs the advisory committee for the national Designing Demand Programme for Business. She also chairs the Economic Policy Committee for the EEF in London. More recently she has taken on an advisory role for the developer of the new Bristol and Bath Science Park.

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Arnoud De Meyer
Non-Executive Member, Management Board

Arnoud De Meyer is currently Professor of Management Studies at Cambridge University and Director of the Judge Business School. Until recently he was Akzo Nobel Fellow in Strategic Management and Professor of Technology Management at INSEAD. He also assumed several management positions at INSEAD, including that of Founding Dean of INSEAD’s Asia Campus in Singapore.

Arnoud De Meyer is an electro-technical engineer and has a Doctoral Degree in Management from the University of Ghent (Belgium). He studied as a visiting scholar at the AP Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA). He was visiting professor at Keio Business School (Tokyo), Waseda University (Tokyo) and the University of Kiel (Germany). He taught also at the University of Ghent (Belgium).

Professor De Meyer’s main research interests are in manufacturing and technology strategy, the implementation of new manufacturing technologies, and the management of R&D. From the beginning of his academic career he invested in understanding how innovation can be managed more effectively. Over the last 20 years he published widely on this topic in academic journals as well as practitioner oriented outlets.

Recently he also published several papers and articles on project management under conditions of high uncertainty. These concepts are of high importance for the management of development and research activities. In 2005, he has co-authored two books, one on the Management & Innovation in Asia and the second on the Globalization of Asian Firms. In 2006 he co-authored a book on Management of Novel Projects and co-edited a book on E-readiness in Europe.

While being an academic Professor De Meyer has also applied some of the concepts he developed in the business world. He has acted as a consultant for a number of medium-sized and large companies throughout Europe and Asia. And he has helped a few entrepreneurs in t he start-up of new business ventures. He is currently outside director of Option N.V. (Belgium), Urbietorbi (France) and Dassault Systèmes (France).

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Robert Douglas CBE
Non-Executive Member, Fair Markets Group Board

Rob is a business advisor specialising in strategy development and implementation, change management and senior executive development. He is also Chairman of Iceni Oil & Gas Ltd, a small North Sea based exploration company.

Rob has held a number of non-executive posts in the public sector. He became Chair of the Surrey Learning and Skills Council in 2000 and was the SE Regional LSC Chair for 2005. He was appointed as a non-executive Director to the Board of the South East England Development Agency in December 2001, becoming a Deputy Chair in December 2003. From 2006 to 2007 he was an Independent Member of the Small Business Service Strategy Board and from 2004 to 2006 he was a member of the DTI Energy Group Advisory Board.

Until the end of 1999, Rob worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Group where he held a number of senior finance and general management posts, including: Shell UK Tax manager; Head of International Taxation; Area Co-ordinator overseeing Group activities in China and East Asia; Chief Executive of two major European subsidiaries (Belgium and Italy); and finally Vice-President heading up a global Mergers and Acquisition division for the Exploration and Production Business.

He was an external adviser to the 1999 UNDP Human Development Report.

Before joining Shell in 1980 Rob trained and worked as an Archivist for three years and then worked for the Department of Inland Revenue for six years.

As well as the UK, he has lived in Belgium, Holland and Italy and speaks French, Dutch and Italian. He has a degree in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse from the University of Cambridge and a Diploma in the Study of Records and Administration of Archives from the University of Liverpool.

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Claire Ighodaro CBE 
Non-Executive Board Member, Operating Committee

Claire Ighodaro is a trustee of the British Council, a national council member of the LSC (Learning and Skills Council), a non-executive director of the Banking Code Standards Board, an independent board member of the UK Trade & Investment Executive Board, a council member of the Open University, and Chairman of the Open University Audit Committee, the BCSB Audit Committee and UKTI Audit Committee. She was senior executive at BT PLC and is a Past President of CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants).

Was awarded a CBE in the 2008 New Year’s Honours list for services to Business.

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Jean Irvine OBE
Non-Executive Member. Operating Committee

Jean has a “portfolio” of non-executive director level roles in the public, private and voluntary sector. She is currently a Non Executive Director of the Chelsea Building Society and Vice chair of RADAR, the disability charity. She also set up the Change Leadership Network for senior executives who are leading major IT-enabled change programmes. This Network, now sponsored by Serco Consulting, was a partner with the British Computer Society and the Chartered Management Institute on a research project on the role of the CEO in leading major IT enabled change initiatives. A PDF of the report is available on their web sites.

Until July 2004 Jean was an adviser on the DTI E-Strategy Group Her earlier career was in local and central government, followed by the Post Office where she held roles as IT Director, Group HR Director and finally Director of its Customer Relationship Management programme. She was also previously a member of the Home Office Police IT Review Group and Chair of the Women into IT Foundation and is active in the voluntary sector in the field of disability and IT.

In 1994 she was awarded an OBE for services to IT.

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Bryan Jackson OBE
Non-Executive Member, Enterprise & Business Group Advisory Board
Non-Executive Member, Audit & Risk Committee

Bryan was appointed Chair of East Midlands Development Agency in December 2004.

He retired from the position of Managing Director of Toyota Motot Manufacturing (UK) Limited in 2004, after 14 years, having spent the previous 23 years with Ford Motor Company. During his career, he has worked in many disciplines holding senior positions and managing several different plants in the UK and Europe covering the full range of vehicle manufacturing.

He was Chairman of the East Midlands Regional Council of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in 2000/02 and he is active in the field of economic development and education, both locally and nationally.

As well as being Chairman of emda, Bryan sits on the Manufacturing Forum, the Strategic Forum Olympic Task Group and is a board member of Industry Forum.

He is currently an adviser to Toyota Motor Europe, as well as Chairman of Total Motivation, a company specialising in lean manufacturing and personal development, Deputy Chairman of Unipart Manufacturing Group and a non-executive Director of the Wesleyan Assurance Society.

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Sir Alan Jones
Non-Executive Member, Fair Markets Group Board

With a degree in mechanical, production and electrical engineering Alan Jones’ business career covers a full spectrum of the auto-manufacturing industry. Between 1957 and 1990 he worked as Director of Manufacturing of General Motors, Vauxhall and Bedford.

Alan Jones joined Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited at its inception in 1990 as Manufacturing Director and became Toyota’s first local Managing Director in April 2001. In June 2003, Alan was named Chairman of Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited, Executive Vice-President at Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing Europe and Managing Officer of Toyota Motor Corporation Japan. Currently he is Senior Executive advisor to Toyota Motor Europe and Chairman Emeritus of Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited.

In 1997 he became a Board Member of the SMMT - Industry Forum and was appointed its Chairman in 2002.

He was knighted in 2005 for outstanding services to the UK’s automotive industry.

In April 2006 Alan became Chairman of Semta. He is also Government Diploma Champion for Employers.

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Swag Mukerji
Non-Executive Member, Fair Markets Group Board

Swag Mukerji is Chief Financial Officer of Priory Group, Europe’s leading provider of psychiatric services. He has previously held various Managing Director and Finance Director roles with both plcs and privately owned companies, including Virgin, United Biscuits and Grand Metropolitan. He specialises in business transformation through driving profitable growth and culture change. Swag has a Warwick MBA and is a Chartered Accountant.

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Frances Nash
Non-Executive Member, Legal Services Group Board

Frances Nash is the Head of European Division in the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the primary function of which is to give specialist legal advice on European matters to the Cabinet Office and to coordinate Whitehall legal views on European issues.

Frances qualified as a lawyer in 1986 and joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) shortly thereafter. During her time at MAFF she spent two years on secondment to the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers before returning to head the legal team which dealt with fisheries matters, at the time of the Factortame 'Spanish fishermen' litigation. She was further seconded to MoD, at the time of the Kosovo and Afghanistan campaigns, as deputy legal adviser. Prior to her current appointment, Frances was a Director in the Legal Services DG of DEFRA.

Frances has a Masters degree in European and Public International Law.

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David Newkirk
Non-Executive Member, Energy Group Board

In September 2005, David Newkirk was appointed as CEO of Executive Education at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where he is responsible for more than 140 senior executive education and leadership programs attended by some 4,000 participants annually.

He was a partner of Booz Allen from 1991 through 2004, where he focussed on strategy and organisation for multinational companies. In addition, he held a series of management roles including Director - European Operations; Head - Global Strategy Practice; and Chairman - Asia Board. Prior to joining Booz Allen he was with American Express in general management roles in the US, UK and Hong Kong culminating in his appointment as Senior Vice President and Regional Head - Europe, Consumer Financial Services.

His current roles include Chairman of ESG Reinsurance, a small specialty reinsurance company and an advisor to the Government of Qatar’s Supreme Council on Information, Computing and Telecommunications.

David holds degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy from Carleton College, in the US, and Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

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Hunada Nouss
Non-Executive Member, Audit & Risk Committee

Hunada joined Communities and Local Government as Finance Director and was promoted to Director General, Finance and Corporate Service Delivery in January 2007.

Prior to joining Communities and Local Government, Hunada held a number of senior financial, commercial and strategic roles in the private sector; including as Finance Director for Burger King (a Diageo subsidiary) in the UK, where in the context of an impending initial public offering she delivered business turnaround in a highly challenged commercial environment. Hunada previously held a number of prominent roles at Diageo plc working in London, Amsterdam and Miami, where she was involved in shaping growth and step-change strategies to transform business profitability. She has led major organisation restructures, mergers and cultural change programmes.

Hunada began her career with Arthur Andersen. She is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

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Eric Peacock CMG DL
Non-Executive Member, Enterprise & Business Group Advisory Board

Eric Peacock's career started in Textiles with the Lindustries Group where he became MD of the main subsidiary Barbour. From 1979-83 he was CEO of the Hollis Group's PLC Textile division before going into consulting during which time he was Chairman and CEO of Babygro plc from 1983 - 89 taking the business to a market listing.

From 1993-97 Eric was a Director of Missenden Abbey Management Centre, before becoming Executive Director of Business Link Hertfordshire until 2006.

Eric has a number of Chairman roles including Baydonhill plc, Stevenage Packaging Ltd, Buckley Jewellery Ltd, Halo International Ltd, Stage Technologies Ltd and The Consulting Consortium Ltd. He is an NXD of Exemplas Group Ltd, the founding organisation of Business Link Hertfordshire and a director of Hertfordshire University Business School. He is the Chairman of the Peer Learning Organisations, The Academy of Chief Executives, Elite and also the Chairman of the Charities The Peacock Foundation and Uniqueness. He has a DBA and MBA from Queen's University Belfast.

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Iain Robertson CBE
Non-Executive Member, Legal Service Group Board

Iain Robertson is a qualified solicitor, with many years experience of both chairing and participating in a wide variety of boards. Currently, Iain is Chairman of the Scottish Legal Aid Board, a member of the Accounts Commission for Scotland, Chairman of the Coal Liabilities Strategy Board and Chairman-Scotland of Utilyx Ltd a leading provider of energy procurement and price risk management services. Until 2003, he was Group Strategy Director of Anglian Water Group plc, prior to which he spent 10 years as Chief Executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Iain also spent 15 years as an international lawyer with BP and has wide corporate finance and North Sea operating experience.

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Barry Rourke
Non-Executive Member, Audit & Risk Committee

Barry Rourke is a director of Surrey and Borders mental health trust; Chairman of 3Legs Natural Resources plc; a director of Columbus Acquisitions Corporation and Trustee and Treasurer of the Robert Bouffler Music Trust - a children's music education charity. He was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1984-2001.

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Janet Rubin
Non-Executive Member, Fair Markets Group Board

Janet has been responsible for the HR function in a variety of corporates, mainly in the consumer and financial sectors. Her wide experience has included the training function, and companies where she has held senior executive positions included B&Q, the former Burton Group, Cornhill Insurance, Littlewoods and WH Smith. She has always sought to incorporate new ways of working where innovation was right for the various stakeholders. At B&Q she introduced anti-ageism policies and promoted flexible working patterns. At WH Smith, she made the business case for diversity and introduced mechanisms to overcome a major “equal value” risk. At Littlewoods, where she was Group HR Director, she helped progress the organisation’s leading edge reputation in diversity and aligned it to the business drivers/processes.

She ran her own human resource consultancy company and has sought to bring fresh ideas to clients such as the Hays Group, the Association of British Insurers, Abbey National, Coutts/NatWest, Harrods, Anglian Water, the DTI, the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor’s Department. She has also frequently acted as an Interim HR Director and her consultancy work specialised in Diversity issues, Remuneration and Change Management. She is currently working in the Science sector as a Human Resources Director.

Janet’s non-executive work has included being on the Board of SHL plc and membership of the Senior Salaries Review Body, the Diplomatic Service Appeal Board and the Rail Passenger Council. She has been an Independent Assessor for the Office of the Commissioner of Public Appointments. She has also been a Commissioner at the Equal Opportunities Commission and a Vice President for Equal Opportunities for the CCIPD and acquired Companion status.

During her six year term on the Senior Salaries Review Body, she undertook many reviews of Parliamentary pay and allowances (using international comparisons) as well as devolved bodies such as the National Assembly of Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Greater London Assembly.

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Darrel Sheinman
Non-Executive Member, Audit & Risk Committee
Non-Executive Member, Energy Group Board

Darrel Sheinman founded Sheinman Exploration Ltd in 2005, where as a market specialist, he offers Boards a global outlook to help mitigate inherent geopolitical risks. He has particular expertise, garnered from his previous trading and entrepreneurial activity, in energy and climate security, and maritime technology. He currently sits on the Council of the Royal Geographical Society; Pole Start Space Applications Ltd, a multi-award winning business he co-founded in 1998 to track vessels via satellite; Eyelab Ltd, offering visual screening to satisfy EU legislation; BERR (formerly DTI) Energy Board as an Independent Board Director from early 2008; and he advises several hedge funds and private equity organisations.

Prior to this, Sheinman was a derivates trader in the commodities markets, and held senior trading and management positions at Westpac, Société Générale, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. He has a joint BSc Honours Degree in Chemistry & Business Administration, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Martin Temple CBE
Non-Executive Member, Enterprise & Business Group Board

Martin Temple has been the Director-General of the EEF since May 1999 having had 30 years of management experience in industry.

Martin Temple was previously Vice President of Avesta-Sheffield AB, a major producer of stainless steel. He has served on the boards of a wide range of companies around the world.

Prior to this, he was Director of Sales and Marketing for British Steel Stainless and a director in the Refractories industry. He has extensive experience covering senior roles in production, marketing, operations and strategy in an international context.

Martin Temple has also worked closely with many UK Government departments, and in European Business Forums.

In addition he has served on the Boards of various Employer & Trade Bodies, and currently sits on the Boards of a range of organisations. He is also the Chairman of the Council of European Employers of the Metal, Engineering and Technology-based industries (CEMEET). Is now a non-executive Director and chairman designate of the 600 Group of companies.

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Roger Urwin CBE
Non-Executive Member. Management Board

Roger was educated at Watford Grammar School and Weston-Super-Mare Grammar School. He read physics at Southampton University and gained a Doctorial thesis on Low Temperature Magnetism.

Employment History:
1971 Joined Central Electricity Generating Board Research Division
1979 Design Manager for the 2000 MW UK-France Electricity Link
1985 Director of Engineering, Midlands Electricity
1990 CEO London Electricity
1995 CEO National Grid
2001 Group CEO National Grid

Created UK’s largest utility with major US operations. Retired from the National Grid in 2006.

Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and Fellow of the Royal Society of Engineering. He received the CBE and an Honorary Doctorate from Southampton in 2007.

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Timothy Walton
Non-Executive Member, Operating Committee

Tim is an independent executive undertaking a range of mentoring, advisory and interim assignments in the public and private sectors. He is a Non Executive Director of NHS Direct serving on the Audit, Risk, Remuneration and New Media committees. Most recently he has delivered programmes for clients operating in design services, construction and executive recruitment, including interim Chief Information Officer at CLM the London2012 ODA delivery partner consortium.

Up to late 2006 he was Chief Information Officer at Arup and prior to that Director or e-Business at Rolls-Royce Group plc. His career has spanned operational, commercial, financial and IT assignments in civil and military aerospace, and has included executive and non-executive roles.

During his 29 years at Rolls-Royce Group plc he led subsidiary companies in water treatment and packaging markets su0pplying both equipment and services. From 1995 onwards he played a leading role in the formation and implementation of the Rolls-Royce/ATKearney/EDS business transformation and outsourcing programmes. As Director of e-Business he managed investment and operations with Exostar, the B2B exchange joint venture which delivers internet enabled processes mainly to the global aerospace supply chain. He was a member of the Arup Group Management Board and a non executive director of Sourcerer Limited.

Tim is a fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer and a Professional Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He has been a member of various steering boards for industry wide initiatives, most recently for the Change Management Institute (CMI) and previously for the e-Business committee of the CBI. He is also a guest speaker at Warwick and Oxford MBA Courses.

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Fields Wicker-Miurin OBE    
Non-Executive Member, Management Board

Fields is Co-founder and Partner of Leaders’ Quest, a social entreprise whose purpose is to be a catalyst for positive change through engaging, inspiring and developing leaders around the world. The Leaders’ Quest Foundation supports leadership development for grassroots or invisible leaders in the countries of Leaders’ Quest programmes: China, Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa and Mozambique

In addition to her role at Leaders’ Quest, Fields has an active portfolio spanning business, policy development and education. Fields is a Non-Executive Director of the CDC Group plc, the UK’s development finance institution, of Savills plc, a leading international property advisory company, and of The Carnegie Group, the leading independent investment bank in Scandinavia.

From 1994 -1997, Fields was the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Strategy of the London Stock Exchange, and developed and implemented the bold strategy that reshaped the Exchange. More recently, Fields was Chief Operating Officer and Partner of Vesta Group Ltd., an international venture capital firm investing in early stage technology businesses in Europe. Fields has been a senior partner of both A.T. Kearney and Mercer Management Consulting, and began her international career as a Vice President with First Union/Wachovia, based in Luxembourg and London.

Named by Euromoney as one of the top 50 women in finance in the world, and by Time Magazine as one of 15 people most likely to influence the future of Europe, Fields is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was named by the World Economic Forum in 1997 as one of 100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow. She was awarded an OBE in 2007 for services to international business.

Fields has an international education, with degrees from the University of Virginia, l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna and Washington, D.C.. She writes regularly, and is an accomplished speaker on issues related to international financial markets, business and the arts, education, leadership and ethics.

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Brian Woods-Scawen CBE
Non-Executive Member, Management Board
Non-Executive Chair, Audit & Risk Committee

Brian Woods-Scawen was a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1981 to 2003 and his roles included Chairman of the Supervisory Board, member of the Global Board and Executive Chairman of the Midlands Region. Currently he holds a range of non-executive appointments in the public and private sectors. He is Chairman of the West Bromwich Building Society and a Board member of Martineau Johnson solicitors. In the public sector he is a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and a Board member of the Government Office for the West Midlands.

Brian Woods-Scawen has been awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Birmingham and Central England and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands.

Was awarded a CBE in the 2008 New Year’s Honours list for services to Business and the community in the West Midlands.

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Ros Wright CB
Non-Executive Member, Legal Services Group Board

Rosalind Wright CB QC is chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel. She is also Vice-Chair of the Jewish Association for Business Ethics and a member of the Insolvency Service steering board, having jointly carried out a review of the CIB during 2003. She currently chairs the Supervisory Committee of OLAF, the European anti-fraud office.

Rosalind was in practice in chambers as a barrister until 1969 when she joined the Director of Public Prosecutions Office (DPP). Starting as a Legal Assistant she moved to be a Senior Legal Assistant, then Assistant Director and Head of Fraud Investigation Group A (London). Rosalind left the DPP in 1987 to become General Counsel, Director of Policy and Head of Prosecutions for the Securities and Futures Authority where she stayed until 1997, leaving to head up the Serious Fraud Office as its Director, a post she held until 2003. She was until 2007 a Non-Executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading.

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