Register of interests

Details of interests disclosed by our board and directors.

Anyone working for or on behalf of Ofgem must follow our conflicts of interest policy and make their interests known. Interests have the potential to become a conflict or could be perceived as a conflict that affect professional duties. This is why they must be declared and kept up to date.

We publish the interests disclosed by members of:

  • our board, the Gas and Electricity Authority (GEMA)
  • our Senior Executive Committee
  • the Enforcement Decision Panel

Board members

Mark McAllister, Chair

  • Member of Ofgem’s Audit Risk and Assurance Committee
  • Member of Ofgem’s People and Remuneration Committee
  • Member of Ofgem’s RIIO-3 and ED3 Committee of Authority
  • Chair of Oasis Charitable Trust

Jonathan Brearley, Chief Executive

  • Chair of our Senior Executive Committee
  • Chief Executive Officer of Ofgem
  • Attends Ofgem’s Audit Risk and Assurance Committee
  • Attends Ofgem’s People and Remuneration Committee
  • Attends Ofgem’s RIIO-3 and ED3 Committee of Authority
  • Had solar panels installed as part of the Feed in Tariffs (FIT) scheme

Alena Kozakova, non-executive member

  • Member of Ofgem’s RIIO-3 and ED3 Committee of Authority
  • Director of E.CA Economics

Barry Panayi, non-executive member

  • Not a member of any Ofgem committees
  • Chief Data and Insight Officer at John Lewis & Partners
  • Non-executive director at Reach PLPublic Limited Company
  • Director at Next Page Advisory Limited

Graham Mather, non-executive member

  • Chair of Ofgem’s RIIO-3 and ED3 Committee of Authority
  • President of the European Policy Forum
  • Director at Foliat Company
  • Director at Shalbourne Company

Jonathan Kini, non-executive member

  • Chair of Ofgem’s Audit Risk and Assurance Committee
  • Founder and chief executive officer of Twist Broadband
  • Advisor for Tarana Wireless Inc
  • Non-executive director at Ofwat
  • Advisor for Rebalance Earth

Nick Winser, non-executive member

  • Member of Ofgem’s RIIO-3 and ED3 Committee of Authority
  • Non-executive director at UK Wind
  • Energy commissioner at the National Infrastructure Commission
  • Commissioner at the Clean Power 2030 Commission

Tony Curzon Price, non-executive member

  • Member of Ofgem’s Audit Risk and Assurance Committee
  • Director at First International Data Union
  • Non-executive director at DotDotDot Property
  • Chair of the Meanwhile Gardens Community Association
  • Chair of the Bags of Taste
  • Director at the Natural Language Processing Limited
  • Policy advisor at NESTA

Warren Buckley, non-executive member

  • Chair of Ofgem’s People and Remuneration Committee
  • Non-executive director for the Financial Ombudsman Service Board

Senior Executive Committee members

Akshay Kaul, Director General Infrastructure

  • Attends our board (GEMA)
  • Member of Ofgem’s RIIO-3 and ED3 Committee of Authority
  • No relevant interests

Melinda Johnson, Chief Operating Officer

  • Attends our board (GEMA)
  • Attends Ofgem’s Audit Risk and Assurance Committee meetings
  • Attends Ofgem’s People and Remuneration Committee meetings
  • Non-executive director of the British Quality Foundation
  • Non-executive director of Global Standards UK (GS1 UK)

Neil Kenward, Director of Strategy, Economics, Research and Net Zero

  • Interim Director of Markets at Ofgem
  • Attends our board (GEMA)
  • Member of Ofgem’s RIIO-3 and ED3 Committee of Authority
  • Provided long term loan to the Church Minshull Community Hydro project

Neil Lawrence, Director of Delivery and Schemes

  • Attends our board (GEMA)
  • Member of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme
  • Member of the Centrica Pension Scheme

Priya Brahmbhatt-Patel, Director of Communications

  • Attends our board (GEMA)
  • Attends Ofgem’s People and Remuneration Committee
  • Shareholder in Royal Mail

Sinead Murray, General Counsel

  • Attends our board (GEMA)
  • Attends Ofgem’s Audit Risk and Assurance Committee
  • Attends Ofgem’s RIIO-3 and ED3 Committee of Authority
  • Husband is a corporate partner in a law firm. They are not on any panels instructed by Ofgem but are sometimes instructed by organisations in the energy sector.

Tim Jarvis, Director General for Markets

  • Attends our board (GEMA)
  • Member of Ofgem’s RIIO-3 and ED3 Committee of Authority
  • No relevant interests

Enforcement Decision Panel

David Ashbourne, chair

  • Lawyer with Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC

Andrew Ellam, non-executive member

  • Consultant Technical Programme Manager at Previsico
  • Stock options in previous employers (Climate X and Monzo Bank)
  • Crowdfunding investments in approximately 90 startup companies (mostly less than £200)

Megan Forbes, non-executive member

  • No relevant interests

Peter Hinchliffe, non-executive member

  • First-tier tribunal judge for His Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service
  • Director at Railsite Holdings Limited and subsidiaries
  • Shareholder in Railsite Holdings Limited and subsidiaries 

Ulrike Hotopp, non-executive member

  • Panel member at the Competition and Markets Authority
  • Member of the Financial Conduct Authority and Payment System Regulator Competition Decision Committee
  • Member of the Code Change Committee of MOSL
  • Reader for economic policy analysis at the University of Kent (Ofgem may have apprentices which take the module Ulrike teaches)
  • Director of LIVE Economics Limited

Juliet Lazarus, non-executive member

  • Panel member at the Competition and Markets Authority
  • Independent member of the Provider Risk Committee at the Office for Students

Ali Nikpay

  • Partner in Chair for Gibson Dunn & Crutcher UK Limited Liability Partnership
  • Vice Chair of Council at the London School of Economics and Political Science board