Laura Carstensen
Reporting Panel Member
Biography
Laura Carstensen (appointed in 2005) is a senior lawyer with extensive experience of EU and UK competition law practice including as a partner in the City law firm Slaughter and May (1994–2004). She is co-founder and director of two online mail order businesses, Blue Banyan Ltd and Hortica. She is a member of the Cooperation & Competition Panel for NHS-Funded Services, a non-executive director of the Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust Hospital and Chester Renaissance. She is also a Governor of London Metropolitan University, Chairman of the Council of The Women’s Library and a trustee of National Museums Liverpool. She was formerly a non-executive board member of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (Cabinet Office) until June 2011.
Register of interests
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Non-executive director MLex Ltd (from April 2012)
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Member of the Business Oversight Board of The Law Society of England and Wales (from February 2012)
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Governor of London Metropolitan University
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Chair of the Council of The Women’s Library
- Trustee, National Museums Liverpool (from October 2011)
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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
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Investor/shareholder Spyder/Redspy Ltd, a company designing websites and developing digital content principally for the automotive industry
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Non-executive Board member, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (Cabinet Office) (until June 2011)
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Member, Cooperation & Competition Panel for NHS-Funded Services
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Previously: self-employed consultant on strategy & business development to the Antitrust group of the law firm Linklaters (until January 2010)
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Previously: partner, Slaughter and May (until June 2004)
