Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark has appointed Martin Coleman, Jonathan Scott and Amelia Fletcher OBE as non-executive directors to the Competition and Markets Authority Board. Sarah Chambers and Anne Lambert CMG have also been appointed as panel member non-executive directors to the CMA Board. Martin Coleman will join the board from October 2017.
Non-executive directors of the Competition and Markets Authority Board play a key role in providing leadership and direction to the organisation, working with the chair and chief executive.
As board members, they will also be responsible for:
- setting the organisation’s strategic direction and policy framework
- developing priorities
- monitoring performance against its objectives
- making decisions on Market Investigation References
The CMA, a non-ministerial department, is the UK’s primary competition and consumer authority. It has responsibility for carrying out investigations into mergers, markets and the regulated industries and enforcing competition and consumer law.