Anna is chair of the ORR Board and took up the post on 5 July 2009. Prior to taking up this role, she served on the Board from 22 May 2009. She is also a member of the Board of Consumer Focus. Her previous roles include chief executive of the Healthcare Commission from 2004-09, director general for land use and rural affairs at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2001-2003, director general at the Department for Trade and Industry, responsible for the Government's energy policy from 1998 to 2001. She was deputy director general at the Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) from1993 to 1997.

Anna is chair of the safety regulation committee and a member of the remuneration committee.

Appointed 5 July 2009 to 4 July 2014.

Tracey Barlow

Tracey is an independent consultant specialising in business development and capital programme management, working mainly in the water and energy utility markets and she is chairman of a Waste to Energy technology business based near Southampton. Tracey is a non-executive director of the Highways Agency; chairs the Highways Agency investment programme delivery board sub-group and is a member of the Highways Agency’s audit committee. Previously, Tracey was responsible for the delivery of Scotland’s £2.3bn water and wastewater capital infrastructure programmes. She managed this delivery programme through a seven-partner Joint Venture organisation with Scottish Water. The unique nature and success of the Joint Venture was recognised through numerous industry, customer, stakeholder and environmental awards. She also has extensive operations and customersServices experience, culminating as general manager, Networks for multi utility services in the North West of England. Tracey was transition manager for the first water industry operations outsourcing contract involving Welsh Water and United Utilities Plc.

Tracey is a member of the audit committee.

Appointed from 1 February 2010 to 31 January 2015.

Peter Bucks was the senior financial advisor at Ofgem (the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets) from 1997 to March 2008. From 2000 to 2006 he also served as corporate finance adviser at Ofwat (the Office of Water Services). In 2006 he was appointed a non-executive director of the Board of Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) for a five year term. 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 also a non-executive director of the British Marine Mutual group of insurance companies prior to its acquisition in 2000.

Peter is chairman of the audit committee and a member of the remuneration and periodic review committees.

Appointed 5 July 2004 and reappointed from 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2014.

Chris Elliott is an independent consultant and a visiting professor, with expertise as a systems engineer and barrister. He has extensive experience of rail and other transport issues. He has had particular involvement with the management of safety, working with European railway companies and in the UK with the Rail Safety and Standards Board to develop policies that properly reflect safety legislation.

Chris is a member of the safety regulation committee.

Appointed from 1 July 2007 to 31 March 2011.

Richard Goldson has been involved in the UK rail industry all his working life. He has held operational and commercial jobs, covering passenger, freight and management training and development. From 1989 to 1997 he worked at British Railways Board headquarters, directing successive organisation change and restructuring programmes. Before joining the ORR Board, he worked for National Express Group as rail development director, responsible for regulatory relations, track access developments, inter-TOC opportunities and new business monitoring worldwide. He is a trustee director of the Railways Pension Scheme, the £20bn scheme covering all UK rail companies and is a trustee of the Railway Benevolent Institution. He was awarded the OBE in the 1996 Birthday Honours.

Richard is chairman of the remuneration committee and a member of the periodic review committee.

Reappointed from 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011.

Mike Lloyd

Mike Lloyd has wide experience in engineering, manufacturing and supply chain roles joining Laurence Scott and Electromotors Ltd in 1971 designing specialist rotating equipment for the naval, industrial and nuclear sectors. He moved to GEC Large Machines Ltd in 1987 initially as technical director and then managing director where he and his team were awarded the 1992 UK Productivity award for the innovative application of Lean and Six Sigma techniques in a low volume manufacturing environment. Mike has extensive railway experience  joining (GEC) Alstom Transport in 1992 holding several International business and operations roles including senior vice president of Alstom's Global train assembly businesses from 1999-2002 based in Paris. In 2002 Mike joined Rolls Royce Plc as president of Gas Turbine Operations on the company’s group xxecutive and successfully reorganized the company’s manufacturing operations  following the events of 9/11. He was appointed group manufacturing director in 2009.

Mike has a degree in Electrical Engineering, a PhD in Electrical Rotating Machines and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Appointed from 1st March 2010 to 28th February 2015.

Jane May has wide experience as an executive and non-executive director across both the public and private sectors. She had a long career with Freemans, which she joined in 1978, becoming customer relations director in 1992. She joined Thames Water in the same role in 1994, where her role expanded to include direction of the customer field services division. She left Thames in 2000, after also successfully setting up the marketing and business development division. She is a non-executive director of the Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat), and also a non-executive director of the Public Guardianship Office and SITA Trust.

Jane is a member of the audit and safety regulation committees.

Appointed 5 July 2004 to 4 July 2009 and reappointed to 31 March 2010.

Steve Walker

Steve is a chartered mechanical engineer who after leaving school worked for British Coal in operational line management and major project roles. Steve then worked in the Thames Water Group for 19 years, and for most of that time he was a director of Thames Water Utilities in the UK, leading engineering, project delivery, asset management, health and safety and capital programme management. For a period he was chairman of a process contracting and operations company in Spain and separately was chairman and group managing director of the Thames Water Products group of companies in the UK and USA which manufactured equipment and supplied water and waste water process solutions. Steve is an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where he both teaches and directs Executive Education programmes.

Steve is a member of the safety regulation committee.

Appointed from 1 February 2010 to 31 January 2015.

The terms of reference of the audit committee include provision for an independent member. This is to ensure that at least one member of the committee is a qualified accountant.

Jeremy Chittleburgh BSc CA qualified as a chartered accountant in 1991 with Chiene + Tate, a well respected Edinburgh firm. Following two years with the Charter Group Partnership he returned to Chiene + Tate as a Partner in 1996. He deals with a range of clients providing business support as well as internal and external audit services. Internal audit clients include both OFT and Ofgem.

Appointed from 1 March 2007. Reappointed from 1 March 2010 to 29 February 2012.