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. The Oxford staff is at the centre of a much larger network of members and supporters.

Stephen Jones, Director - stephen.jones@rpieurope.org
Dr Chris Decker, Reseach Director - chris.decker@rpieurope.org
Karin Cheetham, Administrator - karin.cheetham@rpieurope.org

Simon Less, Senior Research Associate; also head of the energy and environmental policy unit, Policy Exchange - simon.less@policyexchange.org.uk
Adi Kremnizer, Research Associate - adi.kremizer@rpieurope.org

Prof Tony Appleyard
Professor of Accounting and Finance, Newcastle University Business School.

Peter Bucks
Non-executive board Member of the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), and non-executive board member of the Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat).

Dr Nigel Evans
Founder of Caminus Energy.

David Gray
Non-executive board member of the Civil Aviation Authority, and current reviewer of water regulation for Defra.

John Pheasant
Partner, Hogan Lovells. (For further information please see the Hogan & Hartson page.)

Frank Sharratt
Formerly Director of Kerr-McGee Oil

Prof George Yarrow (Chairman)
Emeritus Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford, and visiting professor, Newcastle University Business School.

Sir Ian Byatt
Sir Ian Byatt is Chairman of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (2005-present), and Chairman of the Trustees of David Hume Institute in Edinburgh (2008-). 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
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
Stephen Littlechild is an intellectual pioneer in the privatization and regulation areas of public policy, and was the first Director General of Electricity Supply in Great Britain. For more information about his past and current work, see his Electricity Policy Research Group page at the University of Cambridge.