Appointment of new Ordinary Members

The new members are:

Keith Derbyshire

Keith Derbyshire was a government economist for 25 years, ending his career as the Chief Economist and Chief Analyst at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in 2016. At DHSC he specialised in resource allocation, policy appraisal and the development of incentives and regulations to overcome market failure in health care delivery. In 2017 he was made Honorary Professor of Health Economics at the Centre of Health Economics at the University of York, where he acts as an independent advisor to their Policy Research Unit.

Lesley Farrell

Lesley Farrell qualified as a solicitor in 1991 and has over 20 years’ experience in competition law, covering both contentious and non-contentious areas of practice. She was a partner in the EU and Competition teams of S J Berwin LLP between 2002 and 2012, and Eversheds Sutherland LLP, between 2013 and 2022.

Hugh Kelly

Hugh is an accountant with 20 years’ experience in regulatory and competition finance, particularly in the application of financial accounting data to answer economic questions relating to costing, pricing and profitability. He currently works as an independent consultant, and as a Non-Executive Board Member of the Single Source Regulations Office.

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris

Ioannis Kokkoris is a Professor of Competition Law and Economics and the Head of School at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University London. He previously worked at the Office of Fair Trading (and briefly at the European Commission and US Federal Trade Commission) and has been involved in numerous capacity building and law reform projects in various countries. He publishes on all areas of competition law and economics with a main focus on merger control (including on aspects of national security).

Professor Ioannis Lianos

Ioannis Lianos is Professor of Global Competition Law and Public Policy at University College London, Faculty of Laws, where he has been teaching since 2005. He was President of the Hellenic Competition Commission from August 2019 to December 2023. Ioannis was elected a member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee in 2021 and re-elected in 2022 and 2023.

Andrew Taylor

Andrew is a former Senior Director at the UK Competition Commission, and a former Director of the Cooperation and Competition Panel for NHS-funded services. Prior to these roles, Andrew advised internationally on utilities sector reform after starting his career as an economist for the Australian Government. More recently, Andrew has been a partner, advising on competition matters, at Aldwych Partners. His experience includes merger inquiries, market investigations and conduct-related issues.

Antony Woodgate

Antony studied science and law at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, followed by postgraduate studies in the UK. He entered private practice in EU, competition and regulatory law with a focus on litigation and agency enforcement. He then pursued studies in physics, nanotechnology and renewable energy.

Notes:

1. Ordinary Members are selected for their expertise in law, business, accountancy, economics and other related fields.
    
2. Cases are heard before a Tribunal consisting of three members: either the President or a member of the panel of Chairmen and two Ordinary Members.
    
3. The new members are appointed for eight years and paid according to the amount of time that they spend working for the Tribunal based on a daily rate of £400. The appointments carry no right of pension, gratuity or allowance on their termination. The announced appointments will commence on 9 January 2024.
    
4. All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees’ political activity to be made public. None of the new members are politically active.
    
5. These roles are regulated by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments (OCPA).