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 periodic review committee and a member of the safety regulation committee and the remuneration committee.

Appointed 5 July 2009 to 4 July 2014.

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 the chair of the audit committee and a member of the remuneration 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 was awarded an OBE in the 2012 Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for his services to regulation.

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

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

Mark Fairbairn has experience of running gas and electricity networks in the UK and USA, where he had input into the price control process as well as leading on safety issues.

He worked for National Grid plc from 1987-2011 including as a Board member. He was Director of System Operations from 1998-2000 when the wholesale electricity market was opened up. From 2000-2001 he was Director of UK Strategy and from 2001-2003 Director of Engineering Services. From 2003-2007 he was Chief Operating Officer UK Distribution and from 2007 to March 2011 Executive Director Gas Distribution.

Mark is a member of the the audit committee and safety regulation committee.

Appointed from 5 September 2011 to 4 September 2015.

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.

Stephen Nelson has been CEO of a large regulated company in the transport sector as well as holding Board-level positions in large commercial companies.

He held a variety of roles in Diageo from 1996-2003, including Managing Director, Guinness GB and President (North America) South West. From 2003-2005 he worked at J Sainsbury as Group Trading Director and then Group Marketing Director. He joined BAA plc in 2005 as Group Retail Director and was Chief Executive Officer from 2006-2008.

Stephen is the Chair of the remuneration committee and a member of the periodic review committee.

Appointed from 5 September 2011 to 4 September 2015.

Ray O'Toole was Chief Operating Officer at National Express where he oversaw the running of commercial train franchise operations and has a clear understanding of what train operators require from the rail infrastructure.

He has worked in the transport sector since the mid-1970s. From 1995-1997 he was Managing Director of Yorkshire Rider (a subsidiary of First Group plc) and from 1997-1999 Director of Bus Operations and UK Bus Engineering Director for First Group plc. From 1999-2010 he was Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive UK at National Express Group plc. From 2005-2009 he was a member of the British Transport Police Authority.

Ray is a member of the safety regulation committee and periodic review committee.

Appointed from 5 September 2011 to 4 September 2015.

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 the chair of the safety regulation committee and a member of the periodic review committee.

Appointed from 1 February 2010 to 31 January 2015. 

Richard Price was appointed chief executive designate, Office of Rail Regulation, from 16 May 2011 and took up responsibility as chief executive on 17 June 2011. The Secretary of State for Transport appointed him to the ORR Board from 16 May 2011 until 15 May 2016. 

Richard Price has significant experience of economic regulation through his jobs in government and in the private sector. Richard was previously chief economist and director of performance at Defra since 2006 where he led a radical change programme, reorganising the department to meet its future challenges. Richard led the Enterprise team in HM Treasury from 2002-6. This included leading on the Treasury’s relations with business, helping to shape the Hampton Review of regulation, which resulted in the simplification of the regulatory framework for UK business, and negotiating launch investment with the aerospace sector so as to ensure a commercial return for government. While at the Home Office, Richard worked on the reform of the criminal justice system, the economic cost of crime, and the social and economic effect of immigration. He worked as a consultant on reform to economic and environmental regulation in the UK, Eastern Europe and Asia.

Richard has an MSc in Economics from University of York, and is a member of the Royal Economic Society, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Richard Price is a member of the periodic review and safety regulation committees.

Alan Price is the Director of Railway Performance with responsibility for holding Network Rail to account for its performance and its stewardship of the national railway network infrastructure, with the objective of driving a step change in whole industry performance and efficiency for the benefit of taxpayers, passengers and freight customers who rely on Britain’s railways.

Alan brings to ORR 27 years railway experience, including a deep understanding of the issues facing the industry, particularly on asset management and infrastructure delivery having recently played a significant role supporting the work of the Rail Delivery Group.

Before joining ORR, Alan was the Infrastructure Director at FirstGroup. Prior to this Alan was the Director of Projects on the London Underground board having been the Director of Engineering and Asset Management at Metronet before the merger of the two organisations. He performed front line delivery roles for Bechtel on CTRL Section 1 and the West Coast Route Modernisation project and previously worked on numerous UK and European rail projects.

Alan has a First Class Degree from Swansea University and an MSC from UCL. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

The Secretary of State appointed him to the Board with effect from 26 November 2012.

Ian Prosser is the chief inspector of railways and director, railway safety, Office of Rail Regulation. He is responsible for the work of the Railway Safety Directorate, which strives to ensure duty-holders in the railway industry manage health and safety risks effectively and thus comply with their statutory duties. The Secretary of State appointed him to the Board with effect from 26 September 2008.

Ian was educated at Imperial College where he attained a first class honours degree in chemical engineering, followed by a Master of Philosophy in control engineering and operations research at Cambridge University. He has worked in safety critical industries for more than 26 years: originally in the chemical pharmaceutical and automotive industries, where the roles performed spanned a wide spectrum from works/production management to project and technology management, delivering improvements in safety and quality.

Prior to joining ORR, he spent eight years in the rail industry, working for Amey Rail and Amey Operations as both technical director and Quensh director and then Metronet Rail, where he had the leading role in safety management; he was a director of both infraco companies.

Ian is a member of the safety regulation committee and periodic review committee.

Cathryn Ross is director of railway markets and economics, leading the development and implementation of competition and consumer policy, economic and financial policy, and access policy underpinning ORR's regulation of the rail industry. Her directorate is also responsible for coordinating ORR's role in relation to informing, influencing and implementing European Union policy on the provision of rail services. The Secretary of State appointed Cathryn to the Board with effect from 8 August 2011.

Cathryn is an experienced senior economist who has worked in a number of different sectors advising both private and public sector bodies on economic, regulatory and competition issues. Prior to joining ORR she was executive director of markets and economics and member of the Board at Ofwat, a role she held from September 2008 until joining ORR in August 2011.

Prior to this she spent five years at the Competition Commission, latterly as director of remedies and business analysis leading on the development of policy and remedies in the wake of the Enterprise Act 2002. She was head of competition economics at the then Office of the Rail Regulator in 2002-03 and an economic adviser at Oftel from 2000-02. From 1996-2000 she worked as a senior consultant for Oxecon Ltd advising a wide range of public and private sector clients on a range of regulatory and competition issues. She has an MSc in economics from the LSE. 

Cathryn is a member of the periodic review committee.

Melvyn Neate is a qualified accountant. He recently retired as Director of Internal Audit at HM Revenue and Customs where he headed a 120-strong internal audit team reporting to the Chief Executive and chaired the government departments’ Head of Internal Audit Group. During his full-time career he has worked in local government, and the private sector (Unigate Dairies, TSB and Lloyds) as well as NHS Logistics. Melvyn holds two accounting qualifications and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors.  Melvyn served in 2010-11 as President of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors and currently sits on their Audit Committee.

Appointed from 1 March 2012 until 30 September 2014.