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John Curran - Guernsey Director General / Executive Director 01481 711120 / 01534 514990 john.curran@cicra.gg Download vCard View Biography John Curran Executive Director of the JCRA in September 2010. He is also currently the Director General of the Office of Utility Regulation (OUR) in Guernsey, a post he was first appointed to in January 2005. John has worked with the OUR since 2003 as Director of Regulation. John has extensive experience in regulation, having previously worked with Telstra, the Australian telecoms incumbent, and with the Commission for Communications Regulation (Comreg) in Dublin where he was involved in managing the liberalisation of the telecoms market and the office's international work. John started his career with the Irish Civil Service having studied Electronic Engineering at Galway Institute of Technology. He also holds a Diploma in Company Direction from the IoD. A list of his current interests is available here.
Mark Boleat - Jersey Chairman, JCRA Board 01534 514990 View Biography Mark Boleat Mark Boleat was appointed Chairman of the JCRA with effect from 21st April 2010. He has extensive experience in the regulatory field. He was member of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission from 2000-2009. He established the regulatory regime for claims management companies under the Compensation Act 2006 and for one year was formally the Claims Management Regulator. Between December 2009 and March 2012 he was a member of the British Government's Regulatory Policy Committee. His book An Agenda for Better Regulation was published by the Policy Exchange in January 2010. Mark Boleat holds a portfolio of other positions including Chairman of the States of Jersey Development Company, the Policy and Resources Committee of the City of London, the Association of Labour Providers, Quant Capital Partners and UK Social Data Services. He has held a number of other positions in the commercial, public and charitable sectors. A full list of his current interests is available here.
Michael Byrne - Guernsey Deputy Director General 01481 711120 michael.byrne@cicra.gg Download vCard View Biography Michael Byrne Michael is a regulatory economist who has extensive experience applying regulatory and competition powers in the UK energy, media and telecoms sectors. He joined the OUR in May 2005, and was appointed to the position of Deputy Director General in December 2007. Prior to joining the OUR Michael headed Retail Competition at Ofgem, where he led the UK’s first Super-complaint investigation. Michael also has considerable experience in the media and telecoms sectors using competition powers to carry out various investigations. During his time at the Independent Television Commission he was part of a small regulatory team that oversaw the transition of pay TV to digital technology, developing the code on Electronic Programme Guides and undertaking a range of competition investigations in the pay TV and cable sectors. He has advised the OFT and Competition Commission on various merger cases. His experience covers micro and macro economics, and before his relocation to the UK he was chief statistician at a consultancy in the dairy industry in South Africa. Michael holds a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Warwick. He has a post graduate qualification from Kings College, London, in European Competition Law as well as an OFT accredited qualification from the University of Nottingham Trent in UK Competition Law. He holds a first class honours Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Natal, South Africa, and a Bachelor of Science degree studying Statistics, Economics and Mathematics from the same university.
Robert Foster - Jersey Non-Executive Director, JCRA Board 01534 514990 View Biography Robert Foster Robert Foster was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the JCRA in August 2004 and was re-appointed in August 2007 and August 2010. He is a Commissioner on the National Lottery Commission. He is also a Non-Executive Director and Vice-Chair of King's College Hospital NHS Trust in London, a Governor of Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and a member of the Advisory Council of a venture capital company, Oxford Capital Partners. Robert was previously Chief Executive of the UK Competition Commission from 2000-2004. He is a Chartered Engineer and was previously an engineering manager in the electronics and telecommunications industries. He was then a senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office and Department of Business (DBIS) responsible for innovation policy. A summary of current interests can be found here.
Jeanne Golay - Guernsey Head of Regulatory Policy 01481 711120 jeanne.golay@cicra.gg Download vCard View Biography Jeanne Golay Jeanne Golay joined the OUR in June 2010 after 13 years as Economic Regulation Advisor for Water UK, the industry association for the water companies in the UK. Prior to this Jeanne worked for the UK Post Office Group Planning department and as an accountant, for managing the Post Office £300m capital budget. Jeanne has also worked in the gas industry as an Ofgas director, and in the telecommunications and transport sectors for Coopers & Lybrand. She has economics and law degrees from the University of Lausanne, a Master in Science from the London School of Economics and a diploma in European competition law from King’s College, University of London.
Paul Hamilton - Jersey Regulation and Markets Manager 01534 514997 paul.hamilton@cicra.je Download vCard View Biography Paul Hamilton Paul Hamilton has been involved in the establishment and management of the JCRA since its inception in 2001, and has experience of regulatory policy formulation in both telecommunications and postal services. Previously Paul spent three years in the States of Jersey Policy & Resources Department and eight years in the Department of Health. His qualifications include an MBA and BSc, both from the University of Warwick.
Philip Marsden - Jersey Non-Executive Board member, JCRA 01534 514990 View Biography Philip Marsden Dr Philip Marsden is a Director of the Competition Law Forum and a Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is a competition lawyer with a particular interest in the abuse of dominance, consumer welfare, innovation incentives and international competition issues. Philip is also a Non-Executive Director on the board of the UK Office of Fair Trading and is a visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, where he teaches the core LL.M. competition course. He has authored several books and articles and is also a co-founder and General Editor of the European Competition Journal. Previously Philip practised competition law in Toronto, Tokyo and London, advising firms in the retail, software and mobile telephony sectors. He still acts as an advisor and expert witness in these and other areas. His doctorate is from the University of Oxford Faculty of Law, focusing on trade and competition issues.
Kerstee Norris - Jersey Competition and Markets Manager 01534 514995 kerstee.norris@cicra.je Download vCard View Biography Kerstee Norris Kerstee joined the JCRA in 2009. Her qualifications include a Certificate in Management, a Masters Degree and a BA (Hons) degree. She is currently studying for a post-graduate diploma in EU Competition Law with Kings College, London. Recent work involves the review of the Island's merger notification thresholds and several investigations involving suspected infringements of the Competition (Jersey) Law 2005.
Richard Povey - Jersey Non-Executive Board member, JCRA 01534 514990 View Biography Richard Povey Richard Povey was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the JCRA in May 2005 and was re-appointed in May 2008. He has extensive industry experience, particularly in the petrochemical, mechanical, electro-engineering and telecommunications sectors. he held a number of senior management positions in Swire Pacific Ltd in both Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1979 and 1996. He has held non-executive positions for various fund management and industrial companies. He is currently a Non-Executive Director for Opsec Security Group plc and Henderson Far East Income Ltd. A list of current interests can be found here.
Louise Read - Jersey Finance and Operations Manager 01534 514994 louise.read@cicra.je Download vCard View Biography Louise Read Louise joined the JCRA in June 2009 following a three year career break to raise her family. She trained with PriceWaterhouseCooper and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW in 2000, having chosen to follow a commercial rather than finance sector training path. Louise worked as the Group Financial Accountant at Jersey Post until 2005 and then spent a year with St George's Preparatory School.
Andrew Riseley - Jersey Deputy Executive Director 01534 514992 andrew.riseley@cicra.je Download vCard View Biography Andrew Riseley Andrew Riseley is a competition and regulatory lawyer, who has worked at large law firms in both the UK and Australia, at one of the UK's competition regulators, and in-house at a major UK utility. He has extensive experience in utility regulation, competition law (merger control, abuse of dominance and horizontal and vertical agreements) and public procurement. Andrew joined the JCRA in July 2011. Prior to joining he was an associate director at Brewin Paisner LLP, a law firm based in the City of London. Prior to joining BLP, Andrew was the in-house competition and regulatory lawyer at Thames Water, as part of BLP's Managed Legal Service, as well as various other clients, with a particular focus on regulated utilities, such as water, electricity and gas. Andrew was previously a legal advisor at the UK Competition Commission, where he worked on inquiries into grocery retailing and airport price controls. He began his legal career in the competition departments of the law firms Clifford Chance LLP in London and Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Melbourne, Australia. Andrew is admitted to practice in England and Wales and Australia. He holds post-graduate qualifications in competition law and economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science where he studied as a Commonwealth Scholar in 2001/02 and degrees with first-class honours in economics and law from Monash University in Australia. He is married with 2 young children.
Helen Rubber - Jersey Personal Assistant 01534 514990 helen.rubber@cicra.je Download vCard View Biography Helen Rubber Helen has worked in Jersey since 1979 in both the public and private sectors, predominantly in major law firms, financial institutions, education and the Bailiff's Chambers. Her expertise covers secretarial support, administration, personnel and finance. Helen originally undertook a three-month contract with the JCRA in January 2002 and returned on a permanent basis in January 2003.
Jonathan Tooley - Guernsey Head of Policy and Consumer Affairs 01481 711120 jonathan.tooley@cicra.gg Download vCard View Biography Jonathan Tooley Jonathan joined OUR in October 2010. He has worked across the utilities sector and has extensive experience of energy markets and economic regulation. Jonathan began his career at Ofwat, the UK water industry's economic regulator where he worked in a range of areas and led work on operating cost analysis and efficiency assessment before becoming Head of Economic Regulation at Northumbrian Water. He subsequently moved to the energy sector, working on electricity and gas market trading and risk analysis, developing hedging strategies for structured contracts and energy derivatives. His experience of electricity generation ranges from large scale coal and nuclear to small scale oil and renewables. Prior to joining the OUR Jonathan headed the Strategic Assets team at British Energy. He has a first degree in Physics from Cambridge and a Masters in Environmental Management.
Daniel Vincent - Jersey Competition and Markets Manager +44 (0) 1534 514996 daniel.vincent@cicra.je Download vCard View Biography Daniel Vincent Daniel is a regulatory economist with experience applying regulatory powers in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining the JCRA in 2012, Daniel was an analyst in the telecommunications team at the New Zealand Commerce Commission, where he worked on issues including mobile termination pricing, competition assessments, wholesale access pricing and number portability. He has a post-graduate qualification in Economics and Econometrics from Victoria University Wellington and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Otago University. In addition, Daniel also has expertise in dynamic pricing models and has been published for his academic work in this area.

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