OFT announces non-executive director appointments

[Legal Beagles]

The OFT has announced the appointment of three new members to its Board as non-executive directors and the re-appointment of an existing non-executive director.

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[Amethyst]

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The new appointments are as follows:

James Hart has been appointed for a three-year term from 1 April 2008. He has spent most of his career in the police service, starting in the Surrey and Metropolitan forces and rising to become Head of the Diplomatic Protection Group, and latterly Commissioner of City of London Police. He now holds a small number of non-executive appointments and advisory positions.

Anthony Lea has been appointed for a four-year term from 1 April 2008. He is an economics graduate who has spent most of his career within what is now the Anglo American group, latterly as Finance Director which included responsibility for legal affairs and competition law compliance. He was a non-executive director of various companies in the group including AngloGold Ashanti, De Beers and Englehard Corporation and Terra Industries. He is currently Chairman of the World Mining Trust plc and a non-Executive Director of the British Standards Group.

Dr Philip Marsden has been appointed for a four-and-half-year term from 1 October 2008. He is a Canadian and English lawyer who has practised in Toronto, Tokyo and London, and who has also worked as an official in the Canadian Competition Bureau. He has a particular interest in competition and consumer policy and is currently the Director and Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, with responsibility for its Competition Law Forum.

In addition, Lord Blackwell has been reappointed for a period of two years to start when his current term expires on 31 March 2008. Norman Blackwell is non-executive Chairman of Interserve plc and a non-executive Director of Standard Life plc and SEGRO plc. He is also an adviser to KPMG Corporate Finance, and Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies. From 1995 to 1997 he was Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, following which he was Director of Group Development, NatWest Group, from 1997-2000.

[EXC]

Re: OFT announces non-executive director appointments

Well at least they're all non-bankers