- Home
- Corporate structure
Corporate structure
We have 18 offices across the country with more than 320 staff. Over half are based in our London head office.
Our structure consists of the following directorates:
- Chief executive's office
- Corporate services
- External affairs
- Legal services
- Railway markets and economics
- Railway planning and performance
- Rail policy
- Railway safety
Executive directors and their responsibilities
| chief executive Bill Emery He is responsible for:
| |
| director, rail policy Michael Beswick He is responsible for advising the chief executive and Board on all aspects of rail policy, and ensuring coordination of ORR's policy development activities. | |
| director, legal services Juliet Lazarus She leads the team providing legal advice to ORR. The team advises on all aspects of ORR's work and manages the relationship with external lawyers | |
| director, railway planning and performance Michael Lee He leads on overseeing Network Rail's performance and its stewardship of the national railway network infrastructure by monitoring and enforcing compliance with the network licence. He is also responsible for granting licences and approving access agreements. He provides advice to the Board on engineering and other railway operational matters. Michael is also a member of the periodic review committee. | |
| HM chief inspector of railways and director of railway safety Ian Prosser He is responsible for the work of railway safety, which strives to ensure duty-holders in the railway industry manage health and safety risks effectively and thus comply with their statutory duties. Ian is also a member of the safety regulation committee. | |
| director, corporate services Lynda Rollason She is responsible for the provision of all support services to the business - finance, human resources, information systems, facilities and business planning. | |
| director, railway markets and economics John Thomas He leads the development and implementation of competition, economic and financial policy underpinning ORR's regulation of the rail industry. The directorate also encompasses track access, stations, depots and network code. John is also a member of the periodic review committee. | |
| director, external affairs Ken Young He is responsible for developing and delivering an effective external affairs strategy that builds ORR's credibility with key industry, government and other stakeholders and the media. |
Related documents
- 2007-08 Annual report and resource accounts (low resolution version) (
PDF 441 Kb). - Audit Committee Annual Report 2007-08 (
PDF 731 Kb).








