Jonathan Brearley is Executive Director, Systems and Networks at Ofgem. He leads on the evolution, funding and strategy for the UK energy system and the development of the wider market for gas, electricity generation and network services. In particular, he oversees work on the RIIO price controls, network charging, the role of the system operator and the regulatory structure for networks and the wholesale market. He has awide ranging energy sector experience, having led major reforms through Electricity Market Reform and as the Strategy Director for the Department ofEnergy and Climate Change. Prior to this he led the Office of Climate Change reporting to 6 Government Departments on climate change strategy and delivery. Before working in energy, Jonathan was a senior adviser in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, focusing on a range of domestic policy issues including taxation, pensions and local services.

Before being appointed as Ofwat’s Chief Executive, Rachel spent 12 years at Ofgem. Most recently she was Senior Partner for Consumers and Competition and an executive member of the Ofgem Board. During her time there she was also Partner for Distribution, leading the Electricity Price Control Review and introducing the Low Carbon Network Fund. Before joining Ofgem, Rachel worked as a consultant advising public and private sector organisations around the world on energy strategy and policy.

Keith Harris is owner of Lorraine House, a company that primarily provides private strategic policy and investment advice in the utilities sector. He is also a Director and Audit Committee Chair of South Staffordshire Water, an Industry Partner at AIP, an associate of OXERA, and a NED at the Ervia the owner of Gas Networks Ireland, Irish Water and Aurora Telecom. His early career was at Wessex Water where he became deputy CEO, CFO, and held a series of senior management and Board positions between 1995 and 2010. During that time he was instrumental in arguably making Wessex Water one of the most highly regarded, efficient and innovative companies in the sector. He was the global Head of Regulation for ENRON/Azurix working in M&A and on regulatory policy around the world. Latterly he played a central role in the restructuring Azurix, disposing of its assets, and unwinding its multiple financial instruments as ENRON collapsed.

Orlando Finzi joined M&G Investments in 2004 as a Senior Credit Analyst, Director of Fixed Income. With over 22 years of research and financial markets experience Orlando is currently responsible for utilities, waste, renewables and power research and recommendations across the public investment-grade and high-yield markets both domestically and internationally. His sectors form a significant share of the main corporate bond indices and include issuances that vary from vanilla and hybrid bonds to the more rigorous project and structured financings. He has additionally covered the oil & gas, forestry, paper/packaging and shipping sectors with M&G Investments. Prior to M&G and since 1995, Orlando worked at Credit Suisse Financial Products in derivatives credit risk management and at Credit Suisse First Boston in sell-side credit research covering the utilities and oil & gas sectors. Orlando graduated with a degree in Economics from University College London.

Mark is a finance partner at Linklaters LLP with a focus on infrastructure and utilities covering public capital markets, including whole-business securitisations, banking and private finance, derivatives and direct financing. Mark has advised on the majority of the headline infrastructure and utilities acquisitions, financings and re-financings in the UK and Europe in recent years.

John was elected MP for Weston-super-Mare in 2005, winning the seat from the Liberal Democrats. In 2017 he achieved the biggest share of the vote in his constituency since 1983. His campaigns to make Britain’s economy work for the many, not the few, include the Energy Price Cap (recently successful); making housing cheaper to own or rent by allowing urban owners and developers to Build Up Not Out, and to Make Builders Build; making Britain’s economy more generationally-just and socially-just by creating a UK Sovereign Wealth Fund and a legally-binding Fiscal Rule; and reforming formerly-nationalised utilities (eg energy, telecoms, water, rail) to put customers in charge, rather than politicians, bureaucrats or regulators instead.

Jon Stern is an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at City University, London. Jon Stern was a UK Competition Commission and then a CMA (Competition and Market Authority) Panel Member from 2013-18. While at the CMA, Jon was a Panel Member on several regulatory appeals From 2005-13, Jon was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy (CCRP), City University. He was one of the CCRP founder organisers. Previously, from 1999-2004, Jon was an Associate Director of the Regulation Initiative at the London Business School. Jon is a long-time Associate Researcher at EPRG (Energy Policy Research Group) of the University of Cambridge. He also an associate at CARR, London School of Economics.