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Disclosures of interest

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Martin Coleman (Panel Chair and Panel Inquiry Chair)

Roles held at present

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board, CMA
  • Panel Chair and Panel Inquiry Chair, CMA
  • Deputy Chair, Digital Markets Board Committee, CMA
  • Member, Case and Policy Committee, CMA
  • Chair, Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority
  • Expert Panel Chair, Independent Football Regulator
  • Fellow, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Deputy Chair, Office for Students
  • Chair, Remuneration Committee, CMA

Kirstin Baker (Inquiry Chair)

Roles held at present

  • Co-Chair, Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College
  • Interim Chair, The Pensions Regulator
  • Non-Executive Director, Office for Students
  • Panel Inquiry Chair, CMA
  • Member, Subsidy Advice Unit Committee, CMA

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Member, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, CMA
  • Interim Chair, Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent member, The Pensions Regulator

Shamshad Ali

Roles held at present

  • Member, specialist utility panel, CMA
  • Board member and member of both the Audit and Investment Committees, ICAEW
  • Council member and Chair of the Audit Committee, University of Reading
  • Member of the Advisory Board, Kana Earth

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Senior Advisor, Oxbury Bank

Publications

Shamshad co-authored 2 publications when he was at PwC: * Aviation finance: Fasten your seatbelts (January 2013) * Trading blocs: What next for the stock exchanges? (August 2011)

Jo Armstrong

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist utility panel
  • Chair, Wheatley Group
  • Chair, Accounts Commission for Scotland
  • Chair, HUB West of Scotland

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Member, Water Industry Commission for Scotland
  • Member, Institute of Directors Scotland Advisory Board

Patrick Bartlett

Roles held at present

  • Member, specialist payment systems panel, CMA
  • Independent Non-Executive Director, Audit Scotland
  • Non-executive Director, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and QMU Enterprises Limited
  • Member, Financial Reporting Council UK GAAP Technical Advisory Group
  • Trustee and Director, Scottish Orienteering Association

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Non-Executive Audit and Risk Committee member, Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service

Michael Bender

Roles held at present

  • Member, specialist payment systems panel, CMA
  • Competition Reporting Panel Member, CMA
  • Operating Partner with SilverTree Equity
  • Non-Executive Director, mhance
  • Advisory Board Member, Dialectica
  • Board member, Chair of the Audit Committee, Steppenwolf Theater Company

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Non-Executive Board Chair, Hexaware Technologies

Vicky Boiten-Lee

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA
  • Non-executive director, Quadrise plc (AIM: QED)

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Consulting expert and Testifying witness in commercial litigation in fuels retailing

Robin Cohen

Roles held at present

  • Director, Robin Cohen Consulting

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Non-Executive Member, UK Endorsement Board

Maria Da Cunha

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist communications and utility panels
  • Non-Executive Director, NATS (the UK’s provider of air traffic control services)
  • Non-Executive Director, Irwin Mitchell Holdings Ltd
  • Non-Executive Director, London & Quadrant Housing Trust

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Non-Executive Director, International Distribution Services Ltd
  • Non-Executive Director, De La Rue plc
  • Trustee, Community Integrated Care
  • Director, People & Legal, British Airways plc

Margot Daly

Roles held at present

  • Non-Executive Board Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, NAAFI
  • Chair of the Board of Trustees, GamCare
  • Director of a small housing association (relating to Ms Daly’s private residence)
  • Panel Inquiry Chair, CMA
  • Member, Digital Markets Board Committee, CMA
  • Member, Case and Policy Committee, CMA

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • none

Dr Sarah Deasley

Roles held at present

  • Member, specialist utility panel, CMA
  • Independent Director, Brookfield Renewable Partners
  • Trustee, Sustainability First

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Executive Director, Frontier Economics
  • Non-Executive Director, North Sea Transition Authority

Anne Fletcher

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist utility panel
  • Member, The Pensions Regulator’s Determinations Panel

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Independent Member, Audit & Risk Committee, Office of the Public Guardian

Robin Foster

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist communications, news and media panels

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Non-Executive Member, Ofcom Content Board
  • Member, Advertising Advisory Committee
  • Director, Communications Chambers

Martina Garcia

Roles held at present

  • Member, specialist payment systems panel, CMA
  • Non-Executive Director, Haitong Bank
  • Independent Member, Cost Benefit Analysis Panel, Bank of England and Prudential Regulation Authority

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Commissioner, Independent Commission on UK-EU relations
  • Member, Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for London Short-Term Holding Facilities (STHF)

Publications

  • Martina has published articles and spoken at conferences on a variety of financial services topics

Roland Green

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist communications and utility panels

Ashleye Gunn

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist payment systems and utility panels
  • Customer Chair, Independent Net Zero Advisory Council for Scottish Power Energy Networks 
  • Member, Cadent Customer Challenge Group

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Member, UK Power Networks Customer Engagement Group for RIIO-2 
  • Member, Ofgem RIIO Stakeholder Engagement and Consumer Vulnerability Panel 
  • Member, Scottish Power Transmission User Group for T2

Susan Hankey

Roles held at present

  • Trustee of certain charitable trusts for music (orchestra) in Wales

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Member, CMA specialist communications and utility panels

Paul Hughes

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist communications and utility panels
  • Member, Register of Experts, Federated States of Micronesia Appeals Panel

Colleen Keck

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist communications and utility panels
  • Deputy Chair, Copyright Tribunal
  • Non-Executive Director, City Music Limited

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • General Counsel and Company Secretary, Parkinson’s UK
  • Non-Executive Director and Trustee, Building 15 Management Company Limited
  • Non-Executive Director and Trustee, Live Music Now

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris

Roles held at present

  • Member, specialist communications and utility panels, CMA
  • Professor of Competition Law and Economics, Queen Mary University of London

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Ordinary Member, UK Competition Appeal Tribunal
  • Director, Hydra Consulting London Ltd

Publications

Forthcoming

  • Kokkoris I., Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Subsidies Regulation in the EU (proposal to be submitted to Oxford University Press, (c 250000 words), (Monograph)
  • Kokkoris I., and Lemus C.(ed.) Research Handbook on the Law and Economics of Competition Enforcement, 2nd ed. Edward Elgar, 2028
  • Kokkoris I., Shelanski H., EU Merger Control: A Legal and Economic Analysis, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2027, (c. 300000 words), (Monograph)
  • The Digital Markets Act: A Commentary, Edward Elgar, 2026

2026

  • Kokkoris I., Commentary on the Digital Markets Act, chapters on Preamle
  • Kokkoris I., ‘A Spider’s Web: Regulatory Oversight and the Interplay between EU Merger Control, Foreign Direct Investment screening (EU and national) and Foreign Subsidies Regulation’, Yearbook of European Law, Oxford University Press, 2026

2025

  • Kokkoris I., Investment screening in the EU, in Delimatsis P., Dimopoulos A., Research Handbook on EU Trade and Investment Law, Edward Elgar, 2025

2024

  • Kokkoris I., Merger Control, National Security, and Foreign Direct Investment Screening: A Comparative Perspective, Oxford University Press (c 160000 words) 2024 (Monograph)
  • Kokkoris I., Public Interest in US Merger Control, (c 140000 words), 2024, Oxford University Press. (Monograph)
  • Privacy and Data Considerations in Merger Control, in Ioannidou M., Mantzari D., Research Handbook in Competition Law and Data Privacy, Edward Elgar, 2024
  • The Application of Competition Law in the Pharmaceutical Sector: Challenges for BRICS, with M. Ioannidou and C. Lemus, in Figueroa P., Competition and Trade law in the Pharmaceutical Industry, 2024, Edward Elgar
  • Kokkoris I., The growing and worrying trend of global geopolitical protectionism in Concurrences’ 20th Anniversary: ‘Why Competition? Voices from the Antitrust Community and Beyond?’, Concurrences, 2024
  • Kokkoris I., Public Interest and Non-Price Considerations in Merger Control, Canadian Commercial Law Review, 2024, vo. 36(3), pp. 1 to 40

Juliet Lazarus

Roles held at present

  • Independent Member, Provider Risk Committee, Office for Students

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • General Counsel and Director of Competition, Office of Rail and Road
  • Trustee, Re-Vision (charity providing counselling and psychotherapy training and low cost counselling services)
  • Member, Ofgem Enforcement Decision Panel

Frances McLeman

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist payment systems panel
  • Member, CMA Audit and Risk Assurance Committee
  • Governor/Director, St Albans School (an independent day school in Hertfordshire)

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Trustee and committee member, Hertfordshire choral society

Cyrus Mehta

Roles held at present

  • Competition Panel Inquiry Chair, CMA
  • Competition Reporting Panel Member, CMA
  • Competition Panel Member, News Media and Payment Systems, CMA
  • Non-Executive Member of the Board, CMA
  • Member, Subsidy Advice Unit Committee, CMA
  • Member, Digital Markets Board Committee, CMA

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Deputy Chair, Audit and Risk Committee, CMA
  • Member, CMA Remuneration Committee, CMA

Paul Muysert

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist communications, payment systems and utility panels

Aodhan O’Donnell

Roles held at present

  • Member, specialist communications and utility panels, CMA
  • Advisory Committee Member for Northern Ireland, Ofcom

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Company Director, Power to Switch Limited

Sir Kenneth Parker

Roles held at present

  • Legal Chair for the Disciplinary Tribunal, Financial Reporting Council

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • High Court Judge, King’s Bench Division

Keith Richards

Roles held at present

  • Chair, Board of National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat)
  • Non-Executive Board Member, Transport for London (TfL)
  • Commissioner, Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
  • Independent Member, Pay:UK End User Advisory Council (EUAC)
  • Independent Member, MOSL Performance Assurance Committee for non-household water market (PAC)
  • CMA nominated Non-Executive Board Member, Private Health Information Network (PHIN)
  • Lay Member, General Chiropractic Council (GCC)
  • Co-Chair, Heathrow Airport Access Advisory Group (HAAG)
  • Member, CMA specialist communications panel
  • Chair, Renewable Energy Consumer Codes Non-Compliance Panel
  • Non-Executive Board Member, Transport Focus

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Chair, CAA Consumer Panel
  • Chair, Disabled Person Transport Advisory Committee
  • Member, Air Travel Insolvency Protection Advisory Committee
  • Member, Financial Services Consumer Panel
  • Non-Executive Director, ECPAT UK

Stephen Rose

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Consultant, Eversheds-Sutherland (International) LLP
  • Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland (International) LLP
  • Director, Brandspoke Limited
  • Director, Newton Rose Consulting Limited

Professor Helen Simpson

Roles held at present

  • Member, specialist utility panel, CMA
  • Associate Pro Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation, Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
  • Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
  • ONS Fellow, Office for National Statistics
  • Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research
  • Editorial Board Member, Regional Science and Urban Economics
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Economic Geography

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • none

Publications

Karthik Subramanya

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA specialist utility panel
  • Senior Advisor, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
  • Managing Director and Owner, Carnatic Capital Limited
  • Member, Utility Regulator (Northern Ireland) Enforcement Panel

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Board Member, Creative Scotland
  • Board Member, Changing the Chemistry (SCIO)
  • Director, GMS Wind Limited
  • Board Member, Scottish Enterprise
  • Member of Court, University of Dundee

Patricia Treacy

Roles held at present

  • Member, CMA
  • Trustee, Secondary1st (a charity funding research seeking a cure for secondary breast cancer)

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • none

Publications

  • EU Competition Law and Intellectual Property 2024, Edward Elgar

Stephen Unger

Roles held at present

  • Member, specialist communications and news media panels, CMA
  • Board Member, Building Digital UK, DCMS
  • Research Affiliate, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge
  • Associate, Cambridge Management Consulting

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Specialist Partner, Flint Global
  • Advisory Board Member, Faculty AI
  • Board Member and Acting Chair, Geospatial Commission, DSIT

Publications

  • From Beacon Fires to Fibre Broadband: A history of innovation, enterprise and regulation, Troubadour Publishing (July 2025)
  • European regulators can set our innovators free, Intermedia Vol 53 Issue 4 (December 2025)
  • Strengthening UK capability in the global tech sector – lessons from history. Bennett School of Public Policy (February 2022)
  • Regulating the digital sector, Bennett School of Public Policy (April 2019)

Frances Warburton

Roles held at present

  • Member, specialist utility panel, CMA
  • Non-Executive Member, Enforcement Decision Panel, Ofgem
  • Member, Regulatory Policy Committee

Previous roles held in the last 2 years

  • Associate, Regen (occasionally advised on energy policy matters)

Crispin Wright

Roles held at present

  • President, Carthusian Society (a charity associated with Charterhouse School)
  • Member, Investment Committee, Merton College
  • Trustee, St John’s Holland Road Trust
  • Deanery Synod Representative, St George’s Church, Campden Hill, Kensington

Previous roles held in the last 5 years

  • Trustee, Royal Mint Museum