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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today announced four new appointments to the Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) to help in its continuing role of advising the FSA on the interests and concerns of consumers.
Kay Blair has been a member of the FSCP since 2006, and is today confirmed in her appointment as vice chairman, taking over from Adam Phillips who was made chairman earlier this year.
Of the three new appointments; Mike Dailly has over 15 years experience as a practising civil court solicitor in Scotland, protecting consumers’ rights and tackling social disadvantage; Bill Martin is an experienced macroeconomist and was Chief Economist at the fund management arm of the Swiss bank UBS; Claire Whyley is a professional researcher, policy analyst, and consumer champion. She was Head of Consumer Futures at the National Consumer Council until the end of 2008.
FSA chairman, Adair Turner, said:
"The Consumer Panel has an extremely valuable role to play in ensuring the FSA takes the consumer interest into account in its work. We are very pleased that, as these latest appointments demonstrate, the Panel can call on an extensive range of expertise."
Notes for editors
Kay Blair has been a member of the FSCP since 2006, and is today confirmed in her appointment as vice chairman, taking over from Adam Phillips who was made chairman earlier this year.
Of the three new appointments; Mike Dailly has over 15 years experience as a practising civil court solicitor in Scotland, protecting consumers’ rights and tackling social disadvantage; Bill Martin is an experienced macroeconomist and was Chief Economist at the fund management arm of the Swiss bank UBS; Claire Whyley is a professional researcher, policy analyst, and consumer champion. She was Head of Consumer Futures at the National Consumer Council until the end of 2008.
FSA chairman, Adair Turner, said:
"The Consumer Panel has an extremely valuable role to play in ensuring the FSA takes the consumer interest into account in its work. We are very pleased that, as these latest appointments demonstrate, the Panel can call on an extensive range of expertise."
Notes for editors
- The independent Financial Services Consumer Panel was established by the FSA in December 1998, and has statutory status. Today’s appointments bring the total number of panel members to thirteen.
- The Financial Services Consumer Panel can be found at www.fs-cp.org.uk
- Biographies on new members:
- Kay Blair, a former business journalist, now runs her own marketing and communications consultancy, Business Perceptions. She is also a non-executive director of NHS24 – the Scottish Equivalent of NHS Direct – and a non-executive on the court of the University of St Andrews. Kay is also the Scottish independent council member on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. She has also been a member of the Scottish Consumer Council, and a non-executive director of the Scottish Ambulance Service and the Scottish Legal Aid Board. Kay has been a member of the Consumer Panel since September 2006.
- Mike Dailly has over 15 years post-qualified experience as a practising civil court solicitor in Scotland with experience in using the law to protect consumers’ rights and tackle social disadvantage. Mike is Principal Solicitor and Director of Govan Law Centre, Glasgow, one of the largest community based law centres in the UK. He is a Member of the Secretary of State for Scotland’s Poverty Advisory Group, Legal Advisor to the UK Sustainable Home Ownership Partnership, and a Member of the Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland’s Advisory Panel. Mike has European and international law experience, and has several academic publications to his credit. He also acted, from 2005-2008, as the solicitor to the UK unfair bank charges campaign.
- Bill Martin is an experienced macroeconomist, and is currently a Senior Research Associate of the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. His early career was with the Government Economic Service, and he was a special adviser in the Central Policy Review Staff between 1981 and 1983. From 1983 to 1998, he held various senior roles, including that of Chief UK Economist, at the investment-banking arm of the Swiss bank UBS (formerly Phillips & Drew). He was then appointed Chief Economist of the fund management arm of UBS until 2004. In addition he has been a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and Visiting Professor of London Guildhall University.
- Claire Whyley is a professional researcher, policy analyst, and consumer champion. She is currently a freelance consultant helping organisations develop their capacity to understand and respond to consumer needs, and undertaking specialist research and policy development in the fields of consumer disadvantage, poverty, debt, credit regulation, financial and social exclusion. She was Head of Consumer Futures at the National Consumer Council until the end of 2008, and before that had held various policy and research roles at the National Consumer Council and Welsh Consumer Council.
- The FSA regulates the financial services industry and has four objectives under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000: maintaining market confidence; promoting public understanding of the financial system; securing the appropriate degree of protection for consumers; and fighting financial crime.
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