Organisation
The RPI is a not-for-profit company, limited by guarantee, and a registered charity. It is governed by a Council of Management, which acts as the Board of Directors under UK company law and the Board of Trustees under charity law. Operational decisions are delegated to a Director, based at offices in central Oxford, UK.
Stephen Jones, Director - stephen.jones@rpieurope.org
Dr Chris Decker, Reseach Director - chris.decker@rpieurope.org
Karin Cheetham, Administrator - karin.cheetham@rpieurope.org
Council of Management
Prof George Yarrow, Chairman
Prof Tony Appleyard
Peter Bucks
Peter Bucks is a non-executive board Member of the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), appointed when it was established in 2004 and reappointed from 1 Sept 2007 to 31 March 2010. He is Chairman of ORR's Audit Committee, a member of its Remuneration Committee and was a member of its Periodic Reveiw Committee for the 2008 Access Charges Review. He is also a non-executive board Member of the Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat), appointed when it was established in 2006 to serve for a five year term to 31 March 2011, and is Chairman of its Audit Committee.
Peter served as Senior Financial Advisor at the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) from 2000 to 2008, having previously served for a number of years as Financial Adviser to the Director General of Electricity Supply, Prof. Stephen Littlechild. From 2000 to 2006, he served as Corporate Finance Adviser at Ofwat and continues to provide advice in the field of regulatory finance to a number of other private and public sector organisations. Previously, Peter spent some thirty years in investment banking in London and New York. From 1987 to 1998, he was a director of Hill Samuel Bank, providing corporate finance advice to a wide variety of clients, including close involvement in the UK privatisation programme. He was a non-executive director of the British Marine Mutual group of insurance companies prior to its acquisition in 2000. Peter is also a Fellow of the RSA and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Securities & Investment Institute.
Dr Nigel Evans
Nigel Evans read physics at the Universities of Liverpool and Birmingham and began his professional career in the energy sector with the Central Electricity Generating Board. In 1979, Dr Evans returned to academic research and moved to Cambridge where he became a senior research associate in the multi-disciplinary Energy Research Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, and a Research Fellow at St. Edmunds College in the University. Whilst at Cavendish, he published widely in the fields of nuclear and electricity economics and, during 1983, was an independent economic advisor to Sir Frank Layfield, Inspector at the Sizewell B Public Inquiry.
In 1985, Dr Evans founding the consulting company Caminus Energy to provide strategic and economics advice to government, energy regulators and companies facing the combined challenges of privatisation and liberalisation. For many years, Caminus was at the heart of UK energy policy developments. In 2000, the firm was floated on the NASDAQ market in New York, where it enjoyed considerable market success. Dr Evans left Caminus in July 2002 after more than seventeen years with the company he founded.
Today, Nigel Evans combines his ongoing interest in regulation, with a range of investment activities and involvement with the Arts. He is a Trustee of Gainsborough's House Museum in Suffolk.
David Gray
David Gray is a non-executive board member of the Civil Aviation Authority, where he is also a member of the Price Control Review Panel for NATS, the provider of air traffic control services in the UK. He is a non-executive director of Pitkin Petroleum, an oil exploration company with operations in the Philippines, Vietnam and Peru, and a governer of Central School of Ballet, a vocational ballet school based in central London. He was a member of the panel of experts established to advise the Department of Transport on its review of the economic regulation of airports and is a member of the advisory panel for Ofgem's Project Discovery, an investigation into whether of not future security of energy supply can be delivered by existing market arrangements over the coming decade.
From 2003-2007 he was a member of the Gas & Electricity Markets Authority and Managing Director, Networks of its executive arm, Ofgem. In this role he was responsible for the regulation of the monopoly electricity and gas transmission and distribution networks, including setting price controls and approving or rejecting proposals made by industry for modifications to the various network codes and agreements which underlie the functioning of the competitive markets in gas and electricity.
Before joining Ofgem, David had a number of senior roles in investment research and corporate finance at HSBC, specialising in the energy and utilities sector. He advised the UK Department for Energy on the privatisation of British Gas and the Electricity Supply Industry in England & Wales.
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Frank Sharratt
RPI Distinguished Fellows [year of induction]
In 2009, the RPI welcomed the first Distinguished Fellows of the Institute. Annually nominated and chosen by the Distinguished Fellows sub-committee, with input from the Fellows themselves, the RPI celebrates their valuable contributions to regulatory policy and process.
Sir Ian Byatt [2009]
Sir Ian Byatt is the Chairman of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (2005-present), and Chairman of the Trustees of David Hume Institute in Edinburgh (2008-present). He has been an Honorary Professor at Birmingham University since 2003, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, since 2007.
In 2004, he was appointed a Member of the International Advisory Committee of Public Utilities Research Center, University of Florida.
Sir Ian was Director General of Water Services (Ofwat) from 1989 to 2000. Prior to this, he was Deputy Chief Economic Adviser at HM Treasury (1978 - 1989). He was a Member of the Economic Policy Committee of European Communities from 1978 to 1989, and held the Chair from 1982-85. He is author of British Electrical Industry 1975 - 1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979) and Accounting for Economic Costs and Changing Prices (HM Treasury, 1986).
Sir Bryan Carsberg [2009]
Sir Bryan Carsberg is Chairman of the Council of Loughborough University. He undertook a study of the regulatory procedures of RICS in 2005 and of the residential property market in 2007-08. He is a non-executive director of RM plc., Novae Group plc., Inmarsat plc., a member of British Telecom's Equality of Access Board and President of Locus, the trade association for users of public sector information. He was the first Director General of Telecommunications (head of Oftel, the non-ministerial government department formed to regulate the UK telecoms sector following the privatisation of BT) from 1984 to 1992, Director General of Fair Trading (1992 - 95) and Secretary General of the International Accounting Standards Committee (predecessor of the International Accounting Standards Board (1995-2001).
He was an independent, non-executive director of Cable and Wireless Communications plc. (1997-2000) and non-executive Chairman of MLL Telecom Ltd. (1999-2002). Sir Bryan was Professor of Accounting at the University of Manchester (1969-81) and Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics (1981-84). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries; he was knighted in January 1989. He holds an M.Sc.(Econ) from the University of London (London School of Economics).
Prof Stephen Littlechild [2009] EPRG, University of Cambridge page