Speakers: Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive Officer, Financial Conduct Authority; Julian Franks, Professor of Finance, London Business School; and Prof Philip Booth, Editorial and Programme Director, Institute of Economic Affairs. Under the Financial Services Act 2012 the Financial Conduct Authority is now responsible for supervising the conduct of financial services firms and for ensuring that relevant (more…)

Speakers: Tim Tutton, Former Director of Regulation, National Grid; Richard Price, Chief Executive Officer, Office of Rail Regulation; and Dr Xeni Dassiou, Director, Centre for Competition and Regulation Policy, City University London. In recent years, many of the UK’s economic regulators have faced the challenge of balancing an increasing number of statutory and ancillary duties, (more…)

Speakers: Tony Ballance, Director, Strategy & Regulation, Severn Trent Water; Gordon Hughes, Chairman, Water Industry Commision for Scotland; and Richard Laikin, UK Water Sector Leader, PWC. With competition for water supply to non-household customers set to be introduced in 2017, the water industry and Ofwat are making plans for a new market structure to ensure (more…)

Speakers: Jon Stern, Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University; Suyong Kim, Partner, Hogan Lovells; and Geoffrey Myers, Director of Competition Economics, Ofcom. The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 places a strengthened obligation on sector regulators to give primacy to the use of their competition powers ahead of regulatory ones, where appropriate. The (more…)

Speakers: Iain Murray, Vice President for Strategy, Competitive Enterprise Institute; Francis Egan, Chief Executive Officer, Cuadrilla Resources; and Corin Taylor, Senior Adviser, UK Onshore Oil and Gas. The controversial nature of shale gas extraction has divided public opinion, but many view it as a serious contender to fulfill the UK’s future energy supply needs. This (more…)

Speakers: Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Oxford; Sara Vaughan, Director of Regulation and Energy Policy, E.ON UK; and Dr Keith MacLean, Chair, Energy Research Partnership. 2015 will be a pivotal year for energy policy with a General Election in which Labour is set to promise a 20 month freeze of domestic energy (more…)