Council members
 

Roger Witcomb

Chairman of the Competition Commission

Non-executive Director, Infraco Ltd

Non-executive Director, Andrew and Partners

Chair of Governors, University of Winchester

Trustee, Opportunity International UK

Former Non-executive Director, Anglian Water Group (until 2010)

Former Non-executive Director, Utilita Ltd (until 2009)

Former Non-executive Director, Renewable Energy Holdings plc (until 2010)

Peter Davis
Deputy Chairman of the Competition Commission

President of the Association of Competition Economists (from November 2009 - present) (unpaid)

Member of the Steering Committee, Association of Competition Economists (from November 2008) (unpaid)

Formerly Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics (unpaid)

Formerly Associate Editor, Economica (unpaid)

Director of Applied Economics Ltd: this company has no clients from September 2006

As an academic competition economist he has written, and had published, articles relating to various sectors.

Laura Carstensen
Deputy Chairman of the Competition Commission

Governor of London Metropolitan University

Chair of the Council of The Women’s Library

Shareholder/Non-Executive Director, Blue Banyan Ltd (www.bluebanyan.co.uk) and Meditation Designs suppliers of mind/body/spirit products and Hortica (www.hortica.biz), supplier of gardening products.

Investor/shareholder Spyder/Redspy Ltd, a company designing websites and developing digital content principally for the automotive industry

Non-executive Board Member, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (Cabinet Office) (until June 2011)

Member, Cooperation & Competition Panel for NHS Funded Services

Previously: Self-employed consultant on strategy & business development to the Antitrust group of the law firm Linklaters (until January 2010)

Previously: Partner, Slaughter and May (until June 2004)

Grey Denham
Non-Executive Director of the Competition Commission

Senior Independent Director of Charter International plc

Director and Trustee of Young Enterprise

Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

Company Secretary and Group Director Legal and Compliance GKN plc (until 2009)

Chairman CBI in the West Midlands and Oxfordshire (until 2009)

Member of Council Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry (until 2009)

Chairman Primary Markets Group of The London Stock Exchange (until 2004)

Dame Patricia Hodgson
Non-Executive Director of the Competition Commission

Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge

Non-Executive Director Ofcom / Deputy Chair Designate Ofcom (from January 2012)

Member of BBC Trust (until 2011)

Governor of the Wellcome Trust (until 2008)

Member of Committee for Standards in Public Life (until 2008)

Member of HEFCE

Chief Executive, Independent Television Commission (until 31 December 2003)

Director of Policy & Planning, BBC. (1993-2000)

Member of Statistics Commission (until December 2005)

Non-executive Director of Gcap (until August 2006)

Previously: Chair of the Higher Education Regulatory Review Group

David Saunders
Chief Executive

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Lesley Watkins
Non-Executive Director of the Competition Commission

Finance Director Calculus Capital Limited

Company Secretary Neptune-Calculus Income and Growth VCT PLC