Non-Executive Director and Panel Chair

Martin Coleman

Biography

Martin was appointed Panel Chair and Panel Inquiry Chair of the CMA on 19 September 2018 and has been a Non-Executive Director of the Board since 1 October 2017. He is Chair of the Remuneration Committee.

Martin was a partner in the law firm, Norton Rose Fulbright, and head of its global competition and regulatory practice, serving as a member of the firm’s management group until he retired in 2017. He is a Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

Previous career highlights include:

  • Co-author (with Michael Grenfell) of ‘The Competition Act 1998’ (Oxford University Press)
  • Board member, and Chair of the Education and Training Committee, of the Solicitors Regulation Authority
  • Council Member of the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK’s largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues
  • Board member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England
  • Deputy Chair of the Office for Students, the regulator for higher education in England
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of Police Now

Disclosure of interests

Non-Executive Director and Panel Chair

Board members are responsible for:

  • setting the organisation’s strategic direction and policy framework
  • developing priorities
  • monitoring performance against its objectives
  • making decisions on Market Investigation References

Competition and Markets Authority