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Jayne Almond

CEO of Stonehaven Equity Release UK Ltd

Non-executive Chairman of Squarestone Management Ltd

Treasurer, Holland Park Lawn Tennis Club

Professor John Baillie

Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow

Chair of the The Accounts Commission

Chair of Audit Scotland

Chris Bright

Director of Competition Consulting (consultancy providing services principally to Shearman and Sterling LLP. Mr Bright has undertaken that he will not provide advice on UK competition matters or regulatory matters relevant to the CC’s functions)

Non-Executive Director, Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority

Member, Accountancy Investigation and Discipline Board Tribunal

Advisory Council Member and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, Oxford University

Member, Advisory Council of Oxford Law Foundation

Editorial Board Member, Utilities Law Review

Member of Steering Group, Advocates for International Development

Proprietor LTC (Property business)

Partner, Shearman and Sterling LLP (until February 2006)

Laura Carstensen

Owner/Director, Blue Banyan Ltd (www.bluebanyan.co.uk) and Hortica (www.hortica.biz )

Self-employed consultant on strategy & business development to the Antitrust group of the law firm Linklaters

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

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

Dr John Collings

Previously: Director of Regulation, Powergen UK plc (until December 2000)

Dr Diane Coyle

Self-employed economic consultant and writer

Member of BBC Trust

Visiting Professor, Institute for Political and Economic Governance, University of Manchester

Executive Committee Member, Centre for Economic Policy Research

Member of Royal Economic Society Committee on Women in Economics

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

Member of the American Economic Association

Member of the Society of Business Economists

Member of the advisory board of ING Direct UK

Member of the advisory panel, EDF Energy

Advisory Board Member, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Warwick University (until Autumn 2004)

Fellow of the British-American Project (resigned 2006)

Advisory board member, Centre for Public Policy for Regions, University of Glasgow/University of Strathclyde (resigned 2006)

Member of the Migration Advisory Committee

John Cubbin

Professor of Economics, City University

Previously: Affiliate, LECG

Part time consultant, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA)

Fellow, Royal Society of Arts

Previously: Part time consultant, NERA (until September 2005)

Part time consultant, Scottish Water (until September 2005)

Part time consultant, AOL Time Warner (until July 2004)

Part time consultant, Water UK (until May 2004)

Part time consultant, Orange (until May 2004)

Part time consultant, Belgian Electricity and Gas Regulator (in collaboration with CEPA)

Adviser to the Financial Services Authority

Roger Davis

Board member, Professional Oversight Board, Financial Reporting Council

Carolan Dobson

Independent Investment Advisor to the Environment Agency and the London Borough of Enfield and Rhondda Cynon Taf's pension Fund.

Non-Executive Director, Shires Smaller Companies plc

Council Member sportScotland

Trustee Colquohoun Trust

Chairman Lomond School

Previously: Director Abbey National Asset Managers plc (until 2004)

Non-Executive Director Securities and Investment Institute (until 2003)

Non-Executive Director British Waterways and Chairman of Pensions Committee (until 2001)

Barbara Donoghue

Non-executive director and Chairman of Audit Committee, Eniro AB

Consultant, Manzanita Capital

Member, Broadcasting Policy Group

Previously: Chair of broadcast industry board designing new structure for regulation of training, Ofcom (until April 2005)

Teaching Fellow, London Business School (until July 2004)

Member, Independent Television Commission (until December 2003)

Managing Director, Hawkpoint Partners

Laurence Elks

Trustee of the Hackney Historic Buildings Trust

Previously: Trustee of the Ocean Music Trust (until November 2001)

Trustee of the Hackney Music Development Trust (until April 2004)

Commission Member of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (until December 2006)

Richard Farrant

Chairman, Investigation Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Chairman and Senior trustee, Sustrans

Expert witness, Department of Justice of the United States

Non-executive Director, Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Ltd. (since 2007

Previously: Vice Chairman, United Financial Japan plc (retired 2006)

Previously: Chairman, Banking Code Standards Board Ltd (until 2005)

Previously: Member of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (2003)

Previously: Managing Director of the Financial Services Authority (1999)

Previously: Chief Executive of the Securities and Futures Authority (1997)

Professor Alan Gregory

Professor of Corporate Finance at the University of Exeter

Non-exec director of Exeter Enterprises Limited

Consultant to CIMA

Author for the Pearson Group

Ivar Grey

Part-time consultant, The Prince’s Trust – Cymru (until October 2004)

Non-executive director of Finance Wales PLC

Non-executive director of Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust.

Previously: Partner in KPMG until 2002

Professor Alan Hamlin

Professor of Political Theory at the University of Manchester (from January 2006)

Director of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (from September 2006)

Editor of Academic Journal Constitutional Political Economy, Springer Academic Publishers

Member of Academic Board, European Centre for the Study of Public Choice, Rome, Italy

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton (Until January 2006)

Dean of Law, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Southampton (Until October 2005)

Member of the Strategic Research Board of the Economic and Social Research Council (Until July 2005)

Professor Jonathan Haskel

Professor, Queen Mary, University of London

Director, Perrotts

Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research

Peter Hazell

Council Member of the Natural Environment Research Council

Non-executive Director of Smith & Williamson Holdings Ltd

Non-Executive Chairman, Argent Group plc

Non-Executive Director, UK Coal plc

Non-Executive Director, Brit plc

Jill Hill

Executive Director, Remploy Ltd

Non-executive director, NDI Ltd

Director, Hill Executive Action Ltd

Richard Holroyd

Non-Executive Director of Cantrell & Cochrane Plc.

Non-Executive Director of Otto Weibel AG

Non-Executive Director of ABRO (a MoD Trading Fund)

Previously: Non-Executive Director of the Moneybox Corporation 2001-2004

Previously: Head of Marketing Futures Department for Shell International (until April 2001)

AlexanderJohnston

External member of Finance Committee, Cambridge University

Non-Executive Director of BMS Associates Limited

Senior Adviser: Lilja & Co AG

Ian Jones

Director, Croft Consulting Services, Ltd

Special Adviser, NERA Economic Consulting

Previously: Director, NERA Economic Consulting (until September 2003)

Peter Jones

Executive Director, Rhydfach Consulting Limited

Joint Principal, Private holiday rental and fishing letting business in Wales

1971 year group representative, Clare College, Cambridge (voluntary)

Previously: Managing Director, Corporate Finance and Advisory, HSBC Bank plc (until June 2003)

Consultancy contract through Rhydfach Consulting Limited, HSBC Bank plc (until June 2004)

Consultancy contract through Rhydfach Consulting Limited, Shareholder Executive, June 2004 - May 2005

Consultancy contract through Rhydfach Consulting Limited, HFL Limited

Professor Bruce Lyons

Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia

Associate Editor of Economica

Member Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP) to the European Commission

Occasional consultant to the European Commission Expert

Witness for the British Horseracing Board

Dame Barbara Mills DBE, QC

Limited liability partner in John Mills Aviation Services LLP

The Adjudicator, The Adjudicator's Office

Previous: Governor, London Metropolitan University

Non-Executive Director, The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust

DVO Complaints Assessor (until June 04)

Trustee, Victim Support (until October 04)

Professor Peter Moizer

Professor, University of Leeds

Part-time Professional Stage Examinations Senior Moderator for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Strategic advisor for the Greater Manchester Superannuation Fund Trustee of the Pension and Assurance Scheme, University of Leeds

Jeremy Peat

Director David Hume Institute

Trustee for Scotland, BBC

Honorary Professor, Heriot Watt University

Visiting Professor, Edinburgh University

Board member of Signet Accreditation Limited

Chair of BBC Pension Trust

Columnist for the Herald and Holyood magazine

Chair of the Past, Present and Future Craft Practice Steering Group

Previously: Group Chief Economist, Royal Bank of Scotland (until March 2005)

Christopher Smallwood

Chairman of the Hounslow PCT and Policy Adviser to the Prince's Charities.

Trustee and Chairman of the Investment Committee, UnLtd

Previously: Partner, Makinson Cowell (until June 2002)

Chief Economic Adviser, Barclays (until March 2005)

John Smith

Associate, Indepen Consulting Limited

Non-executive member of the Steering Board for the Marine Fisheries Agency (MFA), a DEFRA agency, (from November 1 2005)

Previously: Member of Independent Steering Group, OFWAT (from September 2004 until August 2005)

Independent consultant, Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and OFWAT (until November 2003)

Associate, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (until July 2003)

Anthony Stern

Director, IC Hotels UK Pension Trust Ltd

Trustee, ACT Educational Trust

Fellow, Association of Corporate Treasurers

Previously: Freelance author, Economist Intelligence Unit (until July 2004)

Head of Treasury, InterContinental Hotels Group (until December 2003)

Peter Stoddart

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Professor Sudi Sudarsanam

Professor of Finance & Corporate Control, Director, MSC in Finance and Management, Cranfield University School of Management

Associate Editor, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting

Director, MSc in Finance and Management, Cranfield School of Management

Director, Centre for Research in Economics and Finance (CENREF), Cranfield School of Management

Visiting professor, Athens Laboratory of Business Administration

Previously Visiting professor, Donau University, University of Vienna, University of Innsbruck, Austria, University of Szczecin, Poland, Santa Clara University, California, USA

Author of Essence of Mergers and Acquisitions and of Creating value from mergers and acquisitions; the challenges, (both Financial Times Prentice Hall).

Richard Taylor

Trustee and Non-executive director Eating Disorders Association

Co-chair CSR committee of the International Bar Association

Trustee / Non-executive director, Beating Bowel Cancer

Governor, Ickburgh School

Previously: Consultant, CMS Cameron McKenna (until April 2005)

Trustee / Non-executive director, National Neighbourhood Watch (until September 2004)

Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna (until April 2004)

Member of the Solicitors Regulation Authority

Robert Turgoose

Previously: Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers UK (until January 2002)

Professor Catherine Waddams

Member of Research Council’s Energy Programme Scientific Advisory Committee

Member of Advisory Board of ESRC Electricity Policy Research Group, Cambridge

Member of Advisory Board of Istituto di Economia e Politica dell’Energia e dell’Ambiente, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan

External examiner for undergraduate degree, University of Cambridge

Professor, Director of ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia

Member of the editorial board, 'Energy Policy'

Member of the editorial board, 'Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics'

Previously: Member of the Panel of Economic Experts, Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (until October 2001)

Occasional consultant to the National Audit Office (until Summer 2001)

Occasional consultant to the World Bank (until June 2002)

Professor, University of Warwick (until October 2000)

Stephen Walzer

Acting Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (until the end of June 2005)

Member of various committees of the Confederation of British Industry

Chair of Competition Committee, International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom (ICC UK)

Rapporteur, Competition Panel, ICC Paris including liaison with members of International Competition Network

Member of various ICC panels concerning corporate governance and practices.

Member of Joint Working Party on Competition Law, Law Society/Bar

Member of UNICE Industry Advisory and Competition Panels

Member of industrial relations and competition groups, European Round Table

Member of Competition Law Association

Member of United Kingdom Association for European Law

Member of British Institute for International and Comparative Law

Member Advisory Council, British Institute Competition Law Forum

Member of the Regulation Board Law Society

Director, Marina One Freehold Co. Limited

Director, Marina One Management Limited

Member of International Law Association

Member of Association of Corporate Counsel

Member of Audit Registration Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Previously: Assistant General Counsel, British American Tobacco plc (until April 05)

Michael Waterson

Professor of Economics, University of Warwick

Chairman, Utility Appeals Panel, Bailiwick of Guernsey (will cease March(?) 2006)

Adviser on promotions, London School of Economics

External Examiner, undergraduate degrees in Economics, University of Edinburgh

Chair, Network of Industrial Economists

Training Lecturer for Europe Economics on behalf of Government clients including the Office of Fair Trading and others involved in competition matters

Previously: Ad hoc advice on switching project for OFGEM, Frontier Economics (until March 2004)

Ad hoc report on some old cases. Provision of economic advice, Competition Commission (until April 2005)

Ad hoc discussion of supply competition in electricity / gas, DTe (Dutch Energy Regulator) (until April 2004)

Ad hoc work on consumer empowerment issues, DTI (until December 2004)

Special Advisor, Subcommittee B of the European Union Committee, House of Lords (until October 2005)

External examiner and assessor, MSc Management/Interdisciplinary Institute of Management, London School of Economics (until November 2005)

Member, Home Office Advisory Panel, 2006-

Member, Expert Panel, West Midlands Transport Infrastructure Forum, 2006, 2007

Jonathan Whiticar

Director, Maple House Consulting Limited

Non-executive Director of Countrywide Principal Services Limited

Trustee & Treasurer, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Community Foundation

Previously: Member of the Greater London Development Committee, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Previously: Managing Director, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (until January 2005)

Professor Stephen Wilks FCA

Professor of Politics, University of Exeter

Advisory Board Member, Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries, University of Bath

Advisory Board Member, Centre for the Study of Competition Policy, University of East Anglia

Member of the Management Board, South West Regional Observatory

Fiona Woolf

Non-executive Director, Three Valleys PLC

President, Law Society of England & Wales

Consultant, CMS Cameron McKenna

Senior Adviser, London Economics International LLC

(Occasional) Consultant, World Bank

Member of expert panel, Siepac Project (Central American Regional Electricity Market)

Previously: Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna (until April 2004)